3BL Media

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In today’s business landscape, green logistics is not just a trend but a crucial strategy for small and medium-sized businesses to gain a competitive advantage. Given all this, though, how can small and medium-sized businesses leverage green logistics to secure that competitive advantage? billion in fuel and counting.

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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. . Still, Amazon's support is the latest indicator that the logistics giant is eyeing ways to clean up aviation. Enter air cargo. Economic production at scale is the key metric for biofuel makers. .

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Cisco CSR

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This blog is the second in a series, bringing a lens on manufacturing logistics, dissecting the application flow and a little detail on why the serving wireless medium must behave in a particular way to support it. 2) Manufacturing logistics. 2) Manufacturing logistics. Manufacturing Logistics. Synchronicity : None.

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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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3BL Media

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Our Hidden Valley Ranch manufacturing plant in Wheeling, Illinois, recently became the first facility within our Foods business unit to achieve zero-waste-to-landfill, or ZWtL, status. How did you engage and motivate your team to adapt to waste-reducing practices? How did they overcome them?

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3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2024

Johansen’s article highlights the waste problem associated with inadequate refrigeration, which leads to the loss of millions of tons of food annually, further contributing to greenhouse gases. of total greenhouse gas emissions. million metric tons annually—equivalent to the emissions from 3.8 million cars.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JANUARY 5, 2024

Three tech-based innovations have the potential to reduce waste at handover points along the logistics chain.

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3BL Media

MAY 8, 2024

The medical plastic waste recycling pilot brought together B. The report offers insights into the collection logistics, material analysis process, and the key findings and takeaways, including a checklist to help determine if you are ready to start a recycling program at your healthcare facility. Braun Medical Inc. (a

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3BL Media

JULY 20, 2023

O-I Glass is committed to reducing the natural resources used and the waste generated in producing sustainable glass packaging. In 2021, O-I formalized its Waste Sustainability Roadmap to help prevent avoidable waste, increase recycling, and enhance systems to accurately report and identify waste streams.

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3BL Media

MAY 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: One essential component of the circular economy involves the establishment of take-back models, in which manufacturers accept responsibility for downstream waste from customers using their products. The model was expanded into Finland in 2020, where customer waste from installation is processed and recycled into blowing wool.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

Originally published on Built From Scratch In a circular economy, nothing is wasted. Durable, reusable products lower the amount of waste sent to landfills. Materials that would be typically thrown away can be reimagined or reinvented into something useful. Next it's compressed into blocks using a special machine.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

By using creativity and persistence, the packaging department team at Yamagata, Japan, managed to reduce their waste plastic material by 11 percent, making them an inspiration for all sites globally. Packaging medicines in an automatic process creates scrap waste when the margin of the plastic film is cut away. tons of waste.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

On Wednesday morning, the logistics and retail giant announced that it plans to buy 6 million gallons of bio jet fuel via a division of Shell and produced by World Energy, a big biodiesel producer. Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. A drop in the fuel tank.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Logistics giant DHL Group announced an expanded collaboration with renewable fuels producer Neste, including plans to offtake around 300,000 tons roughly 375 million liters of unblended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) per year, and to explore the use of renewable diesel in DHLs road transport.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 7, 2024

Digital supply chain and reverse logistics provider Onepak announced that it has raised $20 million from the Private Equity Impact team at asset manager Nuveen, aimed at developing and scaling its platform for facilitating e-waste circularity.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 2, 2025

By integrating tools like digital twinsvirtual replicas of physical supply chainscompanies can simulate scenarios to reduce waste, optimize resource use, and slash emissions. Companies using AI have reported a 15% drop in logistics costs and a 35% improvement in inventory efficiency, according to McKinsey. The impact is staggering.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here’s a riddle: what does a global materials science company such as Dow have in common with farmers in Iowa, investors in Southeast Asia and waste pickers in for example Kenya or Brazil? We are all part of the diverse and complex materials ecosystem that is developing around plastic and renewable waste to deliver its total value.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The city of Prague is to pilot dynamic waste collection via automated collection routes. Seemingly impressive in scale for a trial of this kind – encompassing over 130k bins and 150 collection vehicles – the project is anticipated to deliver improvements in efficiency and environmental impact for waste collection.

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3BL Media

MAY 13, 2024

SAF is typically produced from renewable sourced waste and residue raw materials, such as used cooking oil, rendered fats and greases. Of course, there are plenty of other ways that businesses can reduce their emissions and waste. You can report the resulting CO 2 emissions reduction from airfreight against your own Scope 3 emissions.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

In contrast, research and on-the ground experiences with reusable packaging by Searious Business, a solution provider for zero plastic waste practices, show yearly financial savings of up to 30 percent compared to throw-away versions. They require close collaboration with waste management players, cleaning facilities and logistics companies.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 10, 2025

This might include streamlining production processes, optimizing logistics, or implementing energy-saving measures across your facilities. 5 May: Minimize Office Waste Ahead of summer events and projects, tackle waste reduction by conducting a waste audit. Partner with energy efficiency experts to audit your facilities.

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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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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Climate tech startup UBQ materials announced that it has raised $70 million to scale up and drive the global expansion of its advanced materials made from waste. kilograms of waste from landfills and incinerators, and prevents up to 11.7 kilograms of waste from landfills and incinerators, and prevents up to 11.7

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 18, 2024

ImpactAlpha, January 18 – Pune-based KisanKonnect started its farm-to-consumer logistics service to cut food waste in India’s inefficient and fragmented food supply chain. million to combat food waste and boost farmers in India appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The post KisanKonnect’s raises $3.7

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Red de Alimentos invested food and operational support to three partners in Graneros, Chile--including funding for additional staff, technology, and logistics--with the goal of increasing service delivery through improved efficiencies in donation intake and distribution to community organizations.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Beyond diverting substantial landfill waste, resale represents a rapidly growing revenue opportunity with a market valued at $20 billion in the apparel industry alone. From reverse logistics, quality control, customer expectations and revenue cannibalization concerns, companies must overcome a multitude of considerations and complexities.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Most of the component materials retain their value, however, and can be reused to participate in the circular economy, the economic system that aims to keep resources in use and eliminate waste. By 2030, with that much PV, there's a potential of something like 8 million tons of potential PV waste,” Butler said.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The Vero line exemplifies Acer’s eco-conscious efforts by offering consumers greener options by incorporating eco-friendly and recycled materials, while being designed for an extended lifespan to reduce material consumption and waste. ?.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Seated along the Dutch-German border, near the convergence of a network of seaports, airports and ground transportation, the Venlo district is one of Europe’s most important logistics hubs. 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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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Vehicles such as the big rigs that carry goods across state lines, vans that drop off packages at your front door, garbage trucks that pick up our waste or the forklifts that move pallets across the floor in warehouses. The company just delivered one of its e-tractors to musician Jack Johnson to be used on a farm on the north shore of Oahu.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. . We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. Shipping & Logistics. We produce clothing after someone's purchased it — build it on-demand versus waiting for someone to show up. .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Quick thinking and agility has helped waste management companies survive and even prosper during lockdown, says Aaron Baker, an investor at BGF, an investment firm which has backed a number of firms in the waste sector. Could waste management businesses work effectively when the majority of their staff were home-based?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Expanded capabilities will improve traditional clinical waste hierarchy positions and can lower the carbon emissions by around 70% compared to existing services Veolia says it has expanded its medical waste management capabilities with the aim of addressing key issues for the healthcare sector and the NHS.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If only it were that simple… Logistics networks, particularly traditional methods like Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) vessels and multilevel rail transport, have struggled to keep pace. In the wake of the pandemic, vulnerabilities in traditional logistics systems—RoRo vessels and multilevel rail transport—became increasingly apparent.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

Determining the appropriate logistics partners also will be crucial at every step of a cup’s existence. It’s certainly not going to solve the whole plastic waste challenge, but as more of these models come to market, we are excited to see new solutions that collectively build reuse back into our cultural and behavioral norms.".

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It is an opportunity for the innovative packaging engineers and designers to consider innovations that could help reduce the environmental impact of packaging and logistics. Originally published in Lenovo's 2023/24 ESG Report Packaging Packaging has been identified as a significant environmental aspect under Lenovos EMS.

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