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5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021

GreenBiz

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. But COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in those plans, with single-use packaging skyrocketing, low fossil fuel prices and disrupted recycling systems, already weakened by China’s 2018 plastics waste ban. . Meg Wilcox. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 01:15.

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Understanding VOC Emissions: Importance of Reduction and Cummins’ Progress

3BL Media

As part of the PLANET 2050 environmental sustainability strategy, Cummins is targeting a 50% VOC emissions reduction from painting and coating operations by 2030 from a 2018 baseline. Additionally, roadmaps are being developed for facilities with high VOC emissions which will lay out a path to reach our target.

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One Year Since the YOG Gangwon 2024: Celebrating Youth, Sport and Culture

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Taking advantage of the winter sports legacy created by PyeongChang 2018, the organisers made use of 7 out of 12 venues from the Olympic Winter Games. These efforts led to impressive results, with 39 participants of PLF projects qualifying for the Winter YOG, two of whom, from developing winter nations, went on to win medals at Gangwon 2024.

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Keysight Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Sixth Year in a Row

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ISS) Quality Score for the categories of social (since May 2018) and environment (since August 2022) Newsweeks America's Greenest Companies 2025 TIME World's Most Sustainable Companies of 2024 USA TODAYs America's Climate Leaders 2024 Forbes America's Best Employers for Diversity Barrons 100 Most Sustainable U.S.

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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

Within its own operations — it has 21,000 employees and offices in 50 countries — BCG is aiming to reduce direct energy and electricity emissions by 90 percent per full-time employee against a baseline measurement of 2018, according to the new set of commitments the company announced Tuesday.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 In 2018, Transocean (yes, the folks who brought you the BP oil spill) charged Chevron $830 million ($445,000 a day) for one rig for five years. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Renting one isn’t cheap, either.

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This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm 

GreenBiz

Petersburg, Florida, a manufacturing giant is strategizing on design, development and packaging services for the likes of Apple, Cisco Systems and HP Inc. Back in 2018, Ecologic worked with L’Oreal to release its Seed Phytonutrients product line in paper bottles. Across the U.S. brands in the professional products division at L'Oréal.