GreenBiz

JUNE 28, 2022

Lean: WEAR and no TEAR How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation What goes up must come down To arrest the growing effect on nature and curtail the rise in temperatures, countries across the globe are devising measures to rejuvenate Mother Earth. The aim is to reverse the temperature by 1.5-2.0 deg Celsius.

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3BL Media

MAY 30, 2022

By Kimberley Botwright Head, Sustainable Trade, World Economic Forum & Felipe Bezamat Head of Advanced Manufacturing Industry, World Economic Forum. SUMMARY: Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggered new supply chain disruptions, but supply chains face additional challenges. SOURCE: SAP. Here's what they said.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 14, 2025

Our Litter manufacturing facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia, recently achieved zero-waste-to-landfill, or ZWtL, status. How did you engage and motivate your team to adapt to waste-reducing practices? Were there any unique challenges this team faced during the transition to zero waste to landfill?

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

Lululemon, LanzaTech are reshaping carbon waste into fabric. Then it passes that ethanol onto project partner India Glycols Limited, a petrochemical manufacturer that turns the ethanol into monoethylene glycol, a chemical normally made from fossil fuels. Manufacturing. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 07/26/2021 - 02:00. . Innovation.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

However, this shift is also creating significant challenges for the manufacturing sector, particularly in the supply chain. The EV Battery Supply Chain Batteries are at the heart of electric vehicles, making them the most expensive and crucial component.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

Today's standard practices for solar manufacturing and disposal need close examination — especially as demands for the cheap, clean energy is set to increase. . 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.).

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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. . So the vast majority of the clothes being manufactured are going to countries like the United States. There's just so much waste in this industry. Kirstie Dabbs.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

The company is also on track to manufacture more than 100,000 electric vans for Amazon. EV design and manufacturing comes with an entirely different set of challenges, even without a global pandemic as a backdrop. Manufacturing changes. But there is still much more that needs to change and be done. Let’s be honest.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Revolutionizing the supply chain: Cutting-edge strategies and technologies for food waste reduction. link] Abstract Food waste has significant environmental, economic, and social impacts. Younis, K., & Yousuf, O. Bioresource Technology Reports, 29, 102047.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

trillion industry accounts for about 8 percent of the world’s carbon emissions when considering the entire value chain — higher than the entire iron and steel manufacturing industry combined, for comparison. Without any intervention, that figure is projected to increase more than 60 percent by 2030.

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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. Dry ash can be used in road construction and in the manufacturing of concrete.

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3BL Media

MARCH 13, 2025

Logitechs Future Positive Challenge looks for disruptive partners with bold ideas in areas like lower-impact printed circuit board design, scalable battery technology and recycling, sustainable manufacturing processes, and renewable or recycled materials. Your idea could be the next to join this legacy of innovation and impact.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

Whirlpool Corporation is helping extend appliance lifespans and minimize waste. In 2023, the company reported approximately $19 billion in annual sales, 59,000 employees and 55 manufacturing and technology research centers. 13 Refurbishment Centers, Countless Transformations! View original content here.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. Although the pandemic has disrupted hospitality and demand, Loliware has used the lull to advance its technology and scale manufacturing with a mission to overturn legacy plastics.

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3BL Media

JULY 10, 2024

The manufacturing method involves shredding cartons and then bonding them together into large, durable sheets, through a high-pressure and heat treatment process. About the Carton Council The Carton Council is composed of four leading carton manufacturers, Elopak , Pactiv Evergreen , SIG and Tetra Pak.

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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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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Schneider Electric Embracing new challenges, seizing opportunities, and making a positive impact on the environment are all possible in the world of Supply Chain. As a manufacturing supervisor at the Monterrey Design Center Model shop, I gained valuable experience in industrial machines, schedules, and materials management.

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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? With more than 78 million tons of contaminated waste related to solar panels expected to hit landfills by 2050, this trend needs to be reversed. Krishna Rajan. Tue, 12/01/2020 - 01:00.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2024

Vision is to recover polyethylene from hard-to-recycle waste for reuse in consumer packaging. P&G anticipates using this PCR polymer in their packaging, thereby enabling a path to circularity which helps maximize resource utility and reduces materials treated as waste. MIDLAND, Mich. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc.

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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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3BL Media

DECEMBER 23, 2024

I recently met with a manufacturer whose supply chain endured 723 audits in a single year. This staggering number represents wasted time, money, and resourcesresources that could be invested in improving working conditions or reducing environmental impacts. What I Can No Longer Accept First, the endless cycle of audits.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Lenovo’s International Services Supply Chain (ISSC) is the winner of the 2023 Award of Excellence for Making an Impact from the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM). We firmly believe that authentic sustainability leadership extends far beyond symbolic actions like curbing travel or planting trees.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

"It’s not quite ready yet but it’s soon to be on to its first prototypes, so we really see the industry being no-waste and actually infinitely customizable, definitely by 2050, hopefully even by 2030," she said. While the company is not completely zero-waste at this time, it has a commitment to eventually get there. Textile Waste.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Consumer goods like clothing and bottled water dominate sustainability conversations, but the circular economy has to include the industrial manufacturers of the machines that churn out the products we use every day. Circular manufacturing has taken on new urgency. Circular Economy Meets Sustainable Business Imperatives.

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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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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

Canceled orders, excess stock, disrupted supply chains: The pandemic has laid bare some fundamental challenges with the way our clothes are designed, ordered, manufactured and sold — or landfilled, incinerated or sold on secondary markets. We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. Lauren Phipps.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the systematic study of environmental and human health impacts over all life cycle stages of a product, including raw material extraction, manufacturing, transportation, use and maintenance, and disposal. One straightforward change is to incorporate the use of more renewable energy at the manufacturing facility.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Supply chain traceability platform TrusTrace, announced today that it has raised $24 million through a growth investment led by circular economy-focused investor Circularity Capital. The data can be used for risk management, compliance, product claims and footprint calculations.

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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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3BL Media

APRIL 4, 2024

It involves an audit of the entire supply chain conducted by independent, third-party certifying body SCS Global Services. Gasification is a process used in Eastman’s carbon renewal technology , a molecular recycling technology that breaks waste down into molecular building blocks for use in new materials.

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