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Cisco's Sustainability 101: What Is E-Waste?

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Instead of helping you listen to music, they have now become what is sometimes referred to as e-waste. The European Commission explains that E-waste contains a complex mixture of materials, some of which are hazardous. These can be recycled and re-used if the waste is effectively managed. How much e-waste is there?

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State of the Circular Workplace 2023: A Green Standards Report

GreenBiz

The State of the Circular Workplace in 2023 is promising. Major corporations, innovative startups, ambitious non-profits, and industry associations are making progress toward the idea of the zero-waste office, and they share their best practices in this new report by Green Standards.

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Henkel 2023 Sustainability Report: Regenerative Planet

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Originally published in the Henkel 2023 Sustainability Report We are on a journey toward an environmental transformation of our business model. Increasing the recycling of packaging and reducing waste are key focus areas. In this area, we emphasize the separate collection of all recyclable waste streams at our sites.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

Leveraging pineapple leaves, a waste product of the pineapple industry, Ananas Anam uses a low-energy, low-water, chemical-free process to convert the leaves’ natural fibers into a leather-like material called Piñatex. In the cases of Mushroom Packaging and Piñatex, their biological source is considered an agricultural byproduct or waste.

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Griffith Foods: Environmental Classroom Made From Plastic Waste in Colombia

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In 2023, we proudly delivered “Laboratorio de los Sueños,” an innovative environmental classroom at the Isidoro School in El Rosario de Marinilla, built entirely from recycled plastic waste. Our Sustainability Journey At Griffith Foods, we are committed to driving positive impact through a regenerative mindset.

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These circular cities want to send landfills to the trash bin of history

Corporate Knights

Except for one thing: nothing in that house was wasted. Cities are incredibly wasteful places. And then there’s the waste that results from poor policy and planning: roads clogged with single-driver SUVs, suburbanites commuting hours to work, the unhoused having to pitch tents in parks for lack of affordable housing.

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Mondel?z 2022 Snacking Made Right Report: More Sustainable Ingredients

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Our goal for our European business is to have 100% of the wheat volume needed for our biscuit production grown under the strengthened Harmony Regenerative charter by 2030 1 while we continue to learn from our North American wheat sustainability programs. These practices will help reduce GHG emissions from Harmony wheat fields.