GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences.

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3BL Media

MAY 30, 2022

SUMMARY: Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggered new supply chain disruptions, but supply chains face additional challenges. If unaddressed, supply chain challenges will hamper economic recovery and long-term growth. for advanced and developing economies, respectively. Here's what they said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Compostable packaging finds a niche with food waste. It is a really good solution where you have food waste," Goodrich said. Meg Wilcox.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Supply chain and sustainability topics have dominated global business headlines for more than two years. The interconnectedness of climate change and supply chain disruptions highlights the complexity of supply chains, including the impact in realizing the 2030 vision of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition, we have implemented programs to reduce the waste we generate. We also continued to conserve and optimize energy usage at our facilities using enterprise-wide operational best practices we developed in 2022. We continue to assess and explore innovations in waste management to reduce our environmental impact. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Environmental NGO WRAP is using COP29 to highlight the need for countries to include food loss and waste in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). A new report shows that, of the 195 countries attending COP29, only 12 have committed to reducing food waste and just 17 to tackling food loss.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future. Waste, he writes, is often exported from rich countries to poor ones, a phenomenon known as “toxic colonialism.” “Too

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 5, 2023 /3BL/ - My Green Lab, the world’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the sustainability of scientific research, today announces the launch of Converge, a collaborative supply chain initiative.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2024

Vision is to recover polyethylene from hard-to-recycle waste for reuse in consumer packaging. and CINCINNATI, April 30, 2024 /3BL/ - Dow (NYSE: DOW) and the Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to create a new recycling technology. MIDLAND, Mich.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2022

The number of touchpoints in a circular supply chain add up quickly — from official partners such as local retailers, manufacturers, packaging organizations and recycling companies to informal participants, including the individual waste pickers who help collect discarded items for processing in emerging economies.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default. As businesses, we can manufacture and sell products with no packaging, create closed-loop recycling systems and collaborate with suppliers to create innovative solutions for reducing waste — all while thriving.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

In the context of sourcing and supply chains, we’ve seen this movie before. In a circular supply chain, sourcing no longer focuses exclusively on virgin materials. Yet, these efforts traditionally have acknowledged only one phase of a material’s life.

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GreenBiz

MAY 15, 2020

From global cotton supply chains to pollution from textile factories, the need to improve the industry in favor of both people and the planet is pressing. . There's just so much waste in this industry. That's one of the human costs we see along the chain in order to get these inexpensive materials. . Kirstie Dabbs.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

million in a seed financing round, with proceeds aimed at commercializing its low-energy and low-cost solution to upcycle plastic waste for re-use. Key barriers to increasing plastic recycling include waste contamination and intense energy usage. Plastic production and disposal constitute more than 5% of global CO2 emissions.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

The early-stage company, based in New York, focuses on the $16 billion children’s clothing market, which, like the entire apparel space, suffers from a significant amount of waste. The startup Infinity Goods has created a zero-waste grocery delivery service in Denver, Colorado, with plans to expand soon. Infinity Goods.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Creating human-made materials from living or biological sources is by no means a new development, yet newly invented bio-based materials are garnering significant hype as of late. By 2013, following several years of studying, research and development, Hijosa had a Ph.D., Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

A proliferation of greening initiatives from industry players has emerged with public announcements of policies to tackle this issue, measures to address their supply chain footprints, promotion of circular economy practices and encouragement for sustainable brands growing increasingly popular. But it is not all doom and gloom.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

But if current, low recycling rates continue, decommissioned PV modules instead could add up to 1 million tons of waste in the U.S. That’s 1 percent of the world's e-waste.). in the last 10 years, we’ve lost 90 percent of our market share in solar and we’re importing most of the materials [for solar energy development.]

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3BL Media

APRIL 16, 2024

Developed by WWF and tested with members of the Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Food Waste Coalition and their growers, the tool provides a user-friendly and simplified approach to help farmers and their buyers identify and address the cause of their on-farm food loss and its associated impacts, such as scope 3 emissions.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

The company is developing new store concepts to shift the lighting installations and also adjusting its procurement policies for electricity in its network so that its stores are more energy efficient, and that it is sourced from renewable sources sourced wherever possible, according to Twomey-Madsen. Supply Chain.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular — ensuring that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, establishing new business models to increase their use and developing systems that would enable more old clothes to be turned into new garments.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Setting measurable sustainability goals helps packaging companies align to the principles of a circular economy: to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials and regenerate nature. Waste accumulates and becomes unusable. At the same time, landfills are one of the largest producers of GHG emissions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When I cover solutions to the plastic waste crisis, I typically focus on infrastructure development and bringing recycling systems to scale, standardizing materials, inventing new ones and designing out unnecessary single-use items, and rethinking business models and supply chains. Mon, 11/23/2020 - 01:00. In the Loop.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

This collection of disaggregated waste management decisions is a challenging start of the "reverse supply chain" that is recycling. The time to transform the way we think about and manage waste is now. Most important, it cannot work properly without the aligned efforts from all members of industrial supply chains.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, plastics are the building blocks for packaging that prevents food waste and its associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ― already estimated at 6% of global GHG emissions.* For context, our German asset will have the potential to convert the hard-to-recycle plastic waste of 1.2

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Can big data, AI and chemical footprinting help the renewable energy sector avoid a toxic waste legacy? But can we also use these breakthrough technologies to accelerate the development of safer, more sustainable materials for the renewable energy sector? . Krishna Rajan. Tue, 12/01/2020 - 01:00.

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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. The eyes of traditional investors are widening to the landscape as well.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . 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). Supply Chain. Enter air cargo.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The crisis also has multiplied the insecurity of some workers and left some precious material supply chains, such as cashmere and exotic skins, even more vulnerable. . At the moment, luxury brands are still struggling to develop the business cases and financially support all of these actors.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. I am witnessing the increase in education ignite behavior changes in some communities: less meat; less waste; more conscious decisions. .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Pollution and waste: Production processes often generate significant waste and emissions, impacting air, soil, land, and water quality. Climate change: The industry is susceptible to the effects of climate change, such as supply chain disruptions due to extreme weather events.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Protesters hold these companies responsible for violations happening a long way down their supply chains. To develop the standard, IRMA brought together multiple stakeholders in mining; nonprofit groups, mining-affected communities, mining companies and the purchasers of mined materials including Tiffany & Co.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 10, 2022

DESCRIPTION: We are working with our suppliers to integrate environmentally sustainable practices throughout our supply chain and are committed to increasing the use of environmentally preferred materials and manufacturing processes throughout our company. Develop an implementation plan to improve energy use or GHG emissions.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Its sustainable design reflects our commitment to waste reduction and reducing our carbon footprint,” said Chuck Kostalnick, senior vice president and chief supply chain officer at Arrow. The Venlo PDC also is designed to reduce packaging waste – a priority in a facility that features 78 truck loading docks.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Lenovos energy, GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2), waste, and water data are externally verified to a reasonable level of assurance. The FY 2023/24 Verification Statements for GHG, Energy, Waste and Water can be viewed here. Lenovos performance against these objectives and targets is available in Section 8.0.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With a deep understanding of consumer megatrends and utilization of advanced technologies like AI and data clouds, this year Clorox continued to drive enduring innovation across our products, supply chain and business operations. As we re-assess our goals, we continue to integrate sustainability into our business. Plastics Pact.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. 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). A drop in the fuel tank.

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