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World Environment Day Spotlight: Gildan Leaders on What Sustainability Means to Them

3BL Media

Even before the term “ESG” came into the limelight, we were actively investing in water conservation projects since 2001, measuring our GHG emissions since 2006, and reporting on our environmental efforts since 2004. Having seen the Company’s ESG efforts grow and evolve, Claudia now oversees ESG under Peter Iliopoulos’s leadership.

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From Auto Assembly Plants to National Parks, Zero-Landfill Practices Help To Create a More Sustainable Future

3BL Media

On the flip side, the abundance of people in the parks means a lot of waste bound for landfills, with visitors creating almost 70 million pounds of trash in 2022. Coogan credited the thousands of ideas supplied by production employees for the achievement, calling them the stars of the program.

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Graphene-based packaging presented as first truly biodegradeable and compostable alternative to plastic

Envirotec Magazine

.” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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The Future of Vertical Farming

Green Tech Gazette

AeroFarms was established in the year 2004, and the company sells its products, including to Whole Foods, via 200 different grocery stores within the Northeast. Vertical farming has already established a solid mark in food supply chain management.

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What Is the Standard Modifier Dictionary (SMD)??

Sphera

Poor specifications can lead to unsearchable databases, inefficient replenishment, duplicates or stock-outs and wasted process-cycle times. This results in item descriptions that are inconsistent, incomplete and non-comparable, and often results in duplications of data that represent the same unique item. appeared first on Sphera.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste.

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Nuclear electricity generation has hidden problems; don’t expect advanced modular units to solve them.

Gail Tverberg

World electricity generation from nuclear has been close to flat since 2004. Although there was a dip in world generation of nuclear electricity after the tsunami that affected nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, otherwise world production of nuclear electricity has been nearly flat since 2004 (Figure 3).