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Target Announces Updates to Executive Leadership Team
PRESS RELEASE - Target Corporation today announced a number of changes across its executive leadership team, further positioning the company for growth.
Destinations Limit Visitors, Define Ideal Travelers to Mitigate Overtourism
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - Popular destinations are increasingly prioritizing quality over quantity, dispersing travelers across larger geographic areas, and clearly defining the kind of travelers they want to attract. By addressing overtourism in this way, they also place locals’ wellbeing at the forefront.
30+ Fashion Brands, Manufacturers Collaborating to Recycle Textile Waste in Bangladesh
WASTE NOT - The Global Fashion Agenda's Circular Fashion Partnership (CFP) aims to achieve a long-term, scalable transition to a circular fashion system; beginning in the heart of fast-fashion production, Bangladesh.
Grab a Beer, Recycle Your Mask: Brewers Collective, TerraCycle Partner on PPE Recycling
WASTE NOT - Anheuser-Busch is equipping its craft facilities across the US with Zero Waste Boxes and promoting safe recycling through local ‘Pints for PPE’ efforts.
7 Tips for Engaging Consumers on Circularity
MARKETING AND COMMS - If consumers are to embrace sustainable products en masse, they need better information to be able to make an informed choice — and this is where marketeers have a vital role to play.
Beautycounter, HP, Humanscale, Naturepedic Report Progress on Managing Chemical Footprints
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - 33 companies participated in the 5th Annual Chemical Footprint Project survey. For the first time, seven companies scored over 80% of possible points.
Lenzing Rolling Up Its Sleeves to Lead Textile Industry on Climate Action
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - In its first year disclosing to CDP, the fiber maker earned ‘A’ scores for its global climate and forests stewardship. Here’s what got it there.
B Lab Outlines How, Why to Adopt Public Benefit Governance with New Playbook
WALKING THE TALK - More and more businesses are embracing the idea of stakeholder capitalism, but many are likely at a loss as to how to actually adapt their business models. B Lab’s new playbook is designed to help purpose-driven companies do just that.
New Plastic Credit Market Calls for Brands to Play a Key Role — Here's How
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Plastic credits are poised to generate the momentum necessary to launch a circular plastic economy and give brands the opportunity to act. In order for brands to take action, they will need to follow these four priorities …
Latin America, Caribbean Embrace Transition to Circular Economy
THE NEXT ECONOMY - A regional coalition, led by UNEP, will support access to financing by the public and private sector, with special emphasis on SMEs — to foster innovation and the implementation of specific projects in the region.
Thélios, Mazzucchelli 1849 and Eastman Join Forces to Push Forward Sustainable Innovation in the Eyewear Industry
PRESS RELEASE - Thélios, the eyewear expert of world leader in luxury LVMH, today announces they are joining forces with leading acetate-sheet manufacturer Mazzucchelli 1849 and with specialty materials provider Eastman – a pioneer in molecular recycling – to push forward sustainable innovation in the eyewear industry.
Environmental Risks to Cause $120B ‘Chain Reaction’ for Companies by 2026
SUPPLY CHAIN - The findings are a stark warning of the financial impact of environmental risks for both companies and consumers, as firms rally around the need for better management of environmental risks in product supply chains.
Climate Was the Big Loser in This Year’s Super Bowl – and So Were We
MARKETING AND COMMS - Super Bowl LV wasn’t a year in which brands showed leadership with their sustainability messaging; but after the divisiveness, the climate emergency and the rampaging health crisis of 2020, it was a relief to have a laugh.
Vinyl Sustainability Council Verifies Nine Companies Through Industry Sustainability Initiative
PRESS RELEASE - The Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC), a self-funded business council advancing sustainability in the vinyl industry, is pleased to announce it has verified nine companies through the industry sustainability initiative +Vantage Vinyl™ for meeting its sustainability requirements and honoring its Guiding Principles.
How the Pandemic Shaped Sustainability Goals for Commercial Buildings
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Last year provided many unforeseen challenges for the building management industry; despite it all, sustainability commitments stayed steady. But we must seize the opportunity to shift the narrative in the energy industry away from efficiency, towards continuous optimization.
The Bumble Bee Seafood Company Announces SVP of Global Corporate Responsibility
PRESS RELEASE - The Bumble Bee Seafood Company today announced the addition of Dr. Leslie Hushka to its senior leadership team as Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Responsibility for the 120-year-old iconic seafood company. Hushka will be responsible for leading the company in its efforts to protect and restore the health of the world’s oceans as Bumble Bee continues its commitment to work to close gaps on some of the industry’s biggest sustainability challenges.
What Would You Do with $6M? Quantifying the Social Impact of a Super Bowl Ad
MARKETING AND COMMS - Reaching 100 million people at once comes at a high cost — but the sticker price of a Super Bowl ad comes with deeper implications, both for brands and society. What if that money was used for good?
250+ Orgs Outline Plan for Biden, Congress to #BreakFreeFromPlastic
WASTE NOT - Report identifies 13 solutions to reduce the environmental and health impacts of plastics, with particular attention to helping communities disproportionately affected by the effects of petrochemical pollution.
Finally, a New Era for the Voluntary Carbon Market
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Thanks to some long-overdue digital transformations, carbon offsets can now be verified and issued on a near-real-time basis, software solutions handle costs and complexity, and accuracy is significantly enhanced. This is a win-win-win for project developers, carbon-offset buyers and the planet.
Gillette® Launches Planet KIND, a New Line of Products That Are Kind to Skin and the Planet
PRESS RELEASE - Each Purchase Prevents Plastic from Entering the Ocean Through Plastic Bank Partnership
