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HP Commits to 100% Circular, Carbon-Neutral, Forest-Positive Printing
The tech giant shares vision for print sustainability with innovation that helps protect the world’s forests, reduces carbon emissions and uses more recycled materials. Read More...
Nielsen - Sustainable Companies Outperform the Competition
There are many ways to measure what corporate responsibility and sustainability look like today, both in the context of the world at large and in the context of specific industries or regions. Read More...
Trending: UN, Circular Innovators Continue Mission to Slow Down Fashion
A handful of new initiatives, products and innovations continue the attack on fashion’s wasteful and environmentally and socially destructive practices from a variety of angles. Read More...
PepsiCo Latin America’s ‘Recycling with Purpose’ Incentivizes Circular Consumer Practices
Launched on Global Recycling Day (March 18), the program focuses on the new consumer incentive and rewards program in alliance with ecoins, and will be expanded to 10 countries in Latin America over the next two years. Read More...
The Circular Economy: Reducing Ocean Plastics at the Source
It was recently reported that a dead whale was found washed up on a beach in the Philippines with a total of 88 pounds of plastic products inside its body. While this is a record, it is unfortunately not surprising given that another whale was found dead in Spain in February filled with 64 pounds of trash, and last November another was found in Indonesia with 13 pounds of plastic in its body. Read More...
In Face of Rampant Seafood Fraud, Study Reveals Efficacy of MSC Label
Is something fishy about your fish? Read More...
Hilton Challenges Its Hospitality Teams to Step Up Soap Recycling
Hilton is ramping up its soap-collecting efforts around the world, with a goal of recycling 1 million bars for Clean the World to distribute on Global Handwashing Day (October 15). Read More...
Demonstrating a Seismic Shift in Dairy Sustainability Collaboration
California faces a unique tension: On one side, we are blessed with a mild climate and rich alluvial soils that combine to give California some of the most fertile farmland in the world. Juxtaposed with that, it is one of the world’s most desirable places to live. Read More...
Paper as a Renewable Substitute for Other Materials
Humanity is more aware than ever of its own impacts on the environment, given increased exposure to information in a modern media landscape. The most recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) numbers revealed that Americans produce over four pounds of trash per day, per person. Read More...
Innovative Concepts from BASF Color Solutions Simplify the Recoloring of Regrind for Plastic Recycled Materials
Driven by the desire for closed material cycles and the economical use of resources, the recoloring of regrind for plastic recycled materials is gaining further importance, especially the economic reuse in the same application. Read More...
Climate-Beneficial Wine, Waste-Saving Gin Latest Ways to Imbibe Sustainably
A landmark soil study from Bonterra Vineyards that proves the climate benefits of organic and biodynamic farming, and a new UK gin made from surplus table grapes, mean these wines and spirit help you “drink responsibly.” Read More...
New Reports Reveal Details, Impacts of Efforts To Tackle Plastic Waste and Pollution
In the first New Plastics Economy Global Commitment report, major companies publish data on their annual plastic packaging volumes, many for the first time; while Closed Loop Partners’ 2018 Impact Report measures the effect their investments are having on reducing emissions, diverting valuable commodities from landfill and creating jobs. Read More...
NYU Stern Research Illustrates ROI for Sustainably Marketed Products
Seminal research shows that sustainability is driving market growth in CPGs; products marketed as sustainable grew 5.6x faster than conventionally marketed products, and 3.3x faster than the CPG market. Read More...
Storytelling for Sustainability: How Opening Up Can Open a Whole New Frontier
Our community has made tremendous strides in building a better world, but if we leverage the combined power of people and data to build a better narrative, we can open up a whole new era of possibilities. We’ve got to put some soul in sustainability. Read More...
Food, Beverage Giants Working with Growers to Cultivate Next-Gen Ag Practices
Anheuser-Busch partnership will produce more efficient rice-growing practices, while General Mills has committed to regenerate 1M acres of farmland by 2030. Read More...
Trending: Collaborations Continue to Fuel Solutions to Plastic Pollution
These days, we can’t go a week without the launch of another initiative, innovation or collaboration aimed at eradicating plastic waste around the world – which means we may actually have a fighting chance at doing it. Read More...
Over 2,000 Delegates Gather to Share Insights at SB'19 Tokyo
Sustainable Brands 2019 Tokyo (SB'19 Tokyo) was held on March 6-7, at the Hilton Tokyo. 189 leaders from both domestic and foreign companies and NGOs, and more than 2,240 participants took part. Read More...
Brands Expand Partnerships, Amplify Messaging in Support of Gender Equality
adidas, Diageo and HP launch new films and campaigns, while PepsiCo tackles gender equality in agriculture for International Women’s Day. Read More...
Trust Barometer’s Pressure Points Reveal Huge Opportunity for Purpose-Driven Companies
The mass population is far more skeptical of institutions than the informed public, only one in five people believes the system is working for them, and large majorities express a sense of injustice and a desire for change. Read More...
Trending: Taking the Carbon, Waste Out of eCommerce
Between Amazon and Etsy’s carbon-neutral ambitions, and more and more options for circular shipping containers, the millions of tons of emissions and waste generated by e-commerce could soon be a thing of the past. Read More...
