2025 Embodied Carbon Waste 
Corporate Knights
MAY 25, 2023
But in the last two or three years, mounting awareness around the carbon intensity of garden-variety materials such as cement, concrete, steel, glass and aluminum has moved the concept of “embodied carbon" from a somewhat obscure preoccupation of green designers to the planning mainstream. may be missing the mark.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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3BL Media
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Saint-Gobain North America, through its building materials subsidiary CertainTeed Roofing, has achieved a 49% reduction in landfill waste over the past year at its Shreveport site through the building of a new recycling area at the facility.
3BL Media
DECEMBER 19, 2024
This project follows several other recent actions taken by the company to solidify its commitment towards sustainability: Last month, Saint-Gobain announced that it had reduced waste by 49% at its CertainTeed Roofing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana by enhancing recycling practices and implementing key measures to prevent cross contamination.
3BL Media
DECEMBER 4, 2024
At Cisco, we have a goal for 100% of new Cisco products and packaging to incorporate Circular Design Principles by Cisco’s fiscal year 2025. This can help reduce the contribution of embodied carbon to overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This means that ports can be connected to end devices instead of “wasted” on ISLs.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Sanch Gupta and Milton Calderon Donefer have saved 52,000 pounds of food from going to waste and delivered more than 60,000 meals to homeless shelters in eight cities. Once the ban takes effect in 2025, it could eliminate an estimated 1.3 million tonnes of plastic waste over the following decade.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 11, 2023
With diverse membership from across the concrete and construction value chain, ConcreteZero has three ambitious targets: to deliver 30% low carbon concrete by 2025, 50% low carbon concrete by 2030 and net zero concrete by 2050. Steel is used to reinforce concrete, increasing levels of embodied carbon.
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