Corporate Knights

JUNE 10, 2024

The legacy of “waste colonialism” in the fashion sector is undeniable. Environmental impact and the shadow of waste colonization Launched in 2015, advocacy group Clean Up Kenya was initially focused on the environmental impact of single-use plastic bottles and packaging, but its advocacy has now broadened.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

The companies said the jet fuel will be made from agricultural waste fats and oils (such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing). Amazon began growing its fleet of 20 airplanes in 2015. A drop in the fuel tank. The vast majority of goods in the U.S.

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ESG Today

JULY 30, 2024

Fashion-tech startup unspun announced today that it has raised $32 million in a Series B funding round, with proceeds aimed at scaling its technology to reduce waste and carbon emissions in the fashion sector. It also said its process is more efficient, with less than 3% waste of cut fabric compared to the industry average of 15%.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi’s innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015. Fast fashion and high-performance fabrics have compounded waste by accelerating the output of apparel that's virtually impossible to recycle. It feels like we’ve moved to this throwaway society.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Coca-Cola announced most of its prior packaging goals in 2018 as part of its “World Without Waste” initiative, including targets to make 100% of its packaging recyclable by 2025, use at least 50% recycled content in its packaging by 2030, and to collect and recycle a bottle or can for each one sold by 2030.

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ESG Today

APRIL 21, 2025

Apple announced a series of environmental sustainability milestones, including revealing that it has surpassed a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the value chain from its 2015 baseline. The achievements were announced alongside the release of Apples annual Environmental Progress Report.

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ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2024

million) equity raise, with proceeds aimed at supporting projects to produce advanced renewable biofuels from waste. Founded in 2015, UK-based Renovare provides a technology that turns biodegradable waste from homes and industry into advanced renewable biofuels.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Anaerobic digestion, the process in which bacteria breaks down organic matter such as food wastes, wastewater biosolids and animal manures, is being increasingly recognized as a solution to addressing the climate-related crisis around excess food waste. Organic food waste represents approximately 30% of the municipal waste stream.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the face of such turmoil, the Caribbean has home-grown solutions that are building resilience and lowering emissions as it girds for fiercer storms: coral reef baskets to protect coastlines, sugarcane waste to create biofuel, recycled plastic to strengthen building blocks, or carbon-absorbing concrete made with saltwater. Virgin Islands.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Through 2019, it managed a 1 percent reduction against a 2015 baseline. The company had hoped to reduce consumption by 15 percent by this year, against a 2015 baseline, but it actually increased water use by 1 percent per metric ton of product produced. . Through 2019, it has achieved 70 percent.

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Good.is: Planet

JANUARY 3, 2022

Food waste is a massive problem, both in the US and around the world. According to the nonprofit Food Print, America wastes nearly 40% of all food , over 125 Billion pounds of it, much of which is edible. billion metric tons per year—gets wasted. billion metric tons per year—gets wasted. With no help from Elon Musk. ).

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Amazon Australia has continuedits commitment to reduce packaging waste by moving to 100% recyclable packaging. From itsboxes, bags andenvelopes tothe tape that holds it together,all packaging from Amazon that is sent from its Australian facilities cango directly into the household recycling bin. This step addressesthe 1.2

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

This is largely because of its dependence on agriculture, which consumes the most water by far, slurping up roughly 70 percent globally and wasting about 60 percent of that, largely through inefficient applications. Both Barclays and CDP cite L’Oréal as a leader in reducing water waste.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

Yet, there has been little consistency in corporate disclosures as adoption rates varied and as the focus deepened on easier quantified risks that have felt more urgent and actionable: greenhouse gas emissions; waste to landfill; diverse hiring/retention; etc.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

While every large company focuses to some extent on motivating suppliers to embrace sustainability principles such as reduced emissions or zero waste, few have aggressively and officially extended their corporate carbon neutrality pledges into the Scope 3 realm and into to their entire value chain. 35 percent.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 26, 2021

million since 2015 to help reduce food waste by redirecting foods deemed too “ugly”. ImpactAlpha, January 26 — Imperfect Foods has raised $214.1 The post Imperfect Foods scores $95 million investment for ‘ugly’ produce sales appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been investigating mining waste contaminated with arsenic and other toxins. In the context of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, she investigated abandoned mines in that country containing highly toxic mining waste contaminated by arsenic, thallium and antimony. “In Sensitive region. Source: Tamara ?or?evi?.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some of those memes get traction — “zero waste” and “net zero” are two relatively recent examples that are having their moment. A 2015 study by The Economist Intelligence Unit estimated that as much as $43 trillion of manageable assets may be at risk globally between now and the end of the century.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 23, 2022

Instead, it envisages a treaty akin to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which addresses greenhouse gas emissions. The resolution also directs states to adopt sound waste management practices. The UK exports waste to be dumped in landfill sites overseas that should be recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Waste and sustainability, although a hot topic of discussion and concern, has moved even further up the political, economic and public agenda recently. But, if we focus solely on packaging waste, we ignore the fact that it’s only part of the story. A 2015 study by the UK waste and recycling advisory body Wrap estimated that of the 7.3

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Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 21, 2022

In 2021, Kimberly-Clark achieved nearly a 41% reduction in operational emissions (Scope 1 and 2) versus its 2015 base year, according to its annual report on sustainability. . The post Kimberly-Clark Achieves 41% Reduction in Emissions Versus 2015 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We strive to maintain a culture of sustainability throughout our organization and work collaboratively across internal stakeholder groups and functions to identify ways to mitigate risks, increase operational efficiencies and reduce our environmental impacts, including those related to resource use, waste management and climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Mura Technology, a UK-based technology firm, has announced that construction has started on the world’s first commercial-scale plant to use its ground-breaking “hydrothermal” process, which is said to be able to recycle all forms of plastic waste and could provide the raw ingredients for a sustainable circular plastic economy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As technology reshapes how businesses, governments, and individuals approach responsible resource management, the discussion will focus on AI's unparalleled potential to drive resource efficiency, minimize waste, and accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 17, 2022

The reality was impressive enough for 2005: some of the first industrial-scale wind turbines I’d ever laid eyes on, gathered in small clusters of two or three in farmers’ fields, solar thermal plants large enough to heat whole towns, and hyper-efficient district heating plants burning pellets made of waste straw.

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Sustainability Update

MAY 28, 2024

Absurd as it sounds, this is equivalent to the waste happening in the American food system. food supply is wasted annually — between 492 and 1,032 pounds of food per person. Waste in the food system creates multiple problems. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 35% of the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. s CheckSammy Technologies, which offers business customers proprietary systems for mastering their junk removal, recycling and waste-management challenges.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Most of these reductions were made from 2015 to 2021 when Enel shut down some 40 of its 50 coal power plants fast and furiously (from 31% of generation capacity to 6%). 17 Republic Services Inc Waste 13,862,083 2,200,930 -0.14 To boot, Enel managed to deflate its carbon bubble almost exclusively by retiring high-carbon assets.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Founded in 2015, California-based Twelve produces chemicals, materials, and fuels from carbon, instead of fossil fuels through a carbon transformation technology that converts captured CO2 into products with water and renewable energy as additional inputs and producing only water and oxygen outputs.

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3BL Media

APRIL 15, 2024

Naia™ Renew ES helps combat waste pollution, reduces reliance on virgin materials and enables a lower carbon footprint. It is made from 40% certified recycled waste material, 20% certified recycled cellulose and 40% sustainably sourced wood pulp.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 1, 2022

Sancho Pancho was created by Russian Daria Demidenko, who moved to Portugal in 2015. Read the full story from the United Nations. Her ingenious business idea involves turning leftover parts of fresh fish into dog treats.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Through our passion for innovative materials science, and collaboration with partners, we can unlock the value in plastic waste and improving the circularity of our products. At Dow, we have set ambitious targets to reduce plastic waste and retain its value in a circular economy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition to having environmental management systems across our manufacturing operations sites, we continue to identify opportunities to reduce our environmental footprint in relation to greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, water use and waste generation and disposal.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2023

NPCA’s park expertise paired with Subaru’s innovation and commitment to sustainability offered a unique opportunity to work together to keep millions of pounds of waste out of parks. NPCA first partnered with Subaru in 2015 to help three national parks reduce their waste going to landfills as part of the Don't Feed the Landfills Initiative.

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3BL Media

APRIL 15, 2024

3M pursued ambitious targets with urgency, making progress on our carbon, water, and waste footprints. million, putting us well past our 2025 goal of 5 million instances since 2015. The company hit major milestones, strengthened collaborations, and engaged with the public on our goals. Invested $39.4

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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. The plant once generated 459 pounds of waste for each vehicle that left the line. million square foot auto assembly plant where thousands of cars are produced each year.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Over $4 trillion in listed debt is exposed to heightened credit risks associated with environmental considerations, according to a new analysis released by Moody’s Investor Service, marking an increase of 27% from 2020, and more than doubling since 2015. of total rated debt outstanding, compared to just 3% in 2015.

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