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Salt Lake City 2002: A Springboard for the Growth of Winter Sport

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002 served as a springboard for growing winter sport and bringing more major sporting events to the state of Utah. Salt Lake City 2002 helped to heal a nation reeling from the terrorist attack in the U.S. SOURCE: International Olympic Committee. on 11 September 2001.

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

In 2007, Benedek left his academic job and founded Anaergia, which converts organic food waste into biofuels, such as renewable natural gas. That drive led him to found the company that topped our first list of the 50 Best Corporate Citizens 20 years ago (Zenon ranked first in 2002 and 2004). For 2002, it’s King of the Castle.”.

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Recap: Sustainable Retail Summit 2002 - Day 2

3BL Media

Thierry Gadou, Chairman and CEO from SES-imagotag, shared how digitisation can hold the key to reducing waste, creating more sustainable retail businesses by leveraging local e-commerce solutions and scaling up digital shelf life labelling technology. In the afternoon, delegates split into two different tracks for Breakout sessions.

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Multiple penalties for illegal Aberdeenshire waste site

Envirotec Magazine

SEPA officers said they noted a range of controlled waste, including construction and demolition waste, furniture, carpets, gas canisters, waste electrical and electronic equipment, white goods and waste vehicles. A Confiscation Order of 3,000 was imposed on 9 January 2025 under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).

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DICK'S Sporting Goods and Packsize Partner to Support Retailer's E-Commerce Growth and Sustainability Initiatives

3BL Media

This sustainable packaging process efficiently and reliably meets DICK’S Sporting Goods’ growing customer needs, reduces packaging waste, and improves the overall customer experience. Packsize has been a critical partner in efficiently meeting our athletes’ needs and sharing our vision for a more sustainable future.”. About Packsize ®.

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These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green

Corporate Knights

That hard work is often hard to see, the product of millions of Canadians and thousands of businesses quietly, persistently adopting new approaches to life and work, eschewing waste, prioritizing collaboration and generally learning to do more with less. this year, up 9% over last year’s 49.7% – that’s compared to just 8.4%

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How the plastic industry lied about recycling for decades

Corporate Knights

New documents show that industry executives pushed plastics recycling despite knowing since the 1980s that it “cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution,” and that recycled plastics would never be able to compete economically with virgin material. Today, the U.S. recycling rate for plastics sits at about 5 or 6 percent.

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