Designing waste to be valuable
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Sponsored: Creatives are revolutionizing our perception of waste by demonstrating its potential value in design.
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GreenBiz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Sponsored: Creatives are revolutionizing our perception of waste by demonstrating its potential value in design.
Renew Economy
MARCH 25, 2024
Australia's solar waste problem is arriving quicker than thought, with volumes of discarded panels expected to be equivalent to 1.2GW a year by 2030. The post Australia’s rooftop solar waste problem is hurtling towards 1.2 gigawatts a year appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Sponsored: Conducting a waste audit doesn’t come without its challenges; but the opportunities are just as high.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Sponsored: Material characterizations are a foundational tool for shaping effective waste management strategies. Here’s what you do next.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Here’s his advice on food waste. Michiel Bakker makes Google a magical place to work.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2021
The problem with zero-waste goals is the word 'waste'. We know that circular economy strategies can create profits, cut waste and reduce emissions. A circular system, by contrast, prioritizes the regeneration of natural systems, the designing out of waste and finding ways to extend the life of products. Why is that?
GreenBiz
MARCH 17, 2023
In Minnesota alone, the value of metals and materials that could be mined from electronic waste has an estimated value of over $2.8 billion annually.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
New data from the Consumer Goods Forum is designed to help tackle the industry's food waste mountain.
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
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2022
Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.
GreenBiz
APRIL 4, 2022
Sponsored: Anaerobic digestion is an eco-friendly waste management solution, producing renewable energy and healthy soils. How can this technology grow in the United States?
3BL Media
APRIL 12, 2024
Review the Sustainability Report for additional details on Whirlpool Corporation recycling and waste management efforts. link] About Whirlpool Corporation Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is committed to being the best global kitchen and laundry company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Sponsored: Food loss and waste has a measurable impact on greenhouse gas emissions; the food and beverage industry has a role to play in reducing both loss and waste.
GreenBiz
JUNE 9, 2023
Nearly all companies and organizations have contributed to the ever-expanding mess of extraction, waste, soil degradation, environmental racism and social injustice all in the name of growth at any cost.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 1, 2022
Waste into materials not just once but continuously: It’s the brass ring of the circular economy. Can it work?
3BL Media
MARCH 5, 2024
Whirlpool Corporation is helping extend appliance lifespans and minimize waste. 13 Refurbishment Centers, Countless Transformations! Discover the refurbishment journey where appliances and parts find new purpose.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Earlier this year, fast fashion retailer Zara released its first womenswear collection made of recycled poly-cotton textile waste. The collection is available for sale in 11 countries, helping clothing made of blended textile waste reach the mass market. This is often referred to as waste colonialism. This would generate €3.5-€4.5
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The benefits of anaerobic digestion for recycling various kinds of organic farm waste are far-reaching — including waste management, renewable energy generation, GHG reduction, economic advantages and agricultural sustainability. As with food production and food waste, you can’t have dairy cows without manure.
GreenBiz
MAY 16, 2023
Sponsored: Exploring food waste regulations, sustainable practices and the importance of education and leadership for successful food scrap diversion programs.
3BL Media
JANUARY 25, 2024
Waste is the largest contributor to the company’s overall sustainability footprint, making Zero Production Waste to Landfill a key component of Henkel’s 2030+ Sustainability Ambition Framework. Henkel’s operations teams are working toward an ambitious Zero Waste to Landfill target at all of their operations facilities.
Renew Economy
JANUARY 7, 2024
The post How to stop wasting cheap renewables – and drive a faster transition appeared first on RenewEconomy. The path to 100% renewables is charted. How quickly we get there depends on how we price surplus wind and solar and who controls demand management.
Corporate Knights
MARCH 22, 2024
Yet nuclear energy production requires managing what is known as “spent” nuclear fuel where major problems arise about how best to safeguard these waste materials into the future – especially should nuclear energy production increase. Sweden and Finland have described KBS-3 as a world-first nuclear-waste management solution.
3BL Media
APRIL 16, 2024
This employee-owned company, with a long history of social and environmental commitment dating back to 1977, has been partnering with Vanguard Renewables to tackle food waste from its manufacturing process since 2020. There, through a process called anaerobic digestion, this food waste gets a new lease on life.
GreenBiz
MAY 25, 2023
Two models for reducing waste at scale in food and beverage supply chains.
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Originally published in Alkermes September 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report All Alkermes facilities have comprehensive waste management plans in place. For non-hazardous waste, we actively seek to eliminate landfilling where practicable and pursue recycling, composting or other re-use opportunities.
3BL Media
MARCH 20, 2024
Our plants in Dammam and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have joined the more than 30 Clorox facilities around the world in achieving zero-waste-to-landfill, or ZWtL, status. As we celebrate Global Recycling Day, we’re reminded of the crucial role that recycling and waste management play in our overarching environmental strategy.
3BL Media
APRIL 19, 2024
Linda Demmler, GM of IBM Global Asset Recovery Services, leads the team that identifies ongoing opportunities to redeploy IBM Z, IBM Power, IBM Storage and other IT devices to avoid waste. These projects repurposed servers that ultimately avoided waste and supported IBM’s results of reselling, reusing or recycling 96.8%
GreenBiz
JULY 15, 2022
About a third of the world’s food is wasted or lost — but new apps to buy, redistribute and share surplus food can help.
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Globally, waste pickers are responsible for collecting and recovering – from homes, businesses and landfills – up to 60% of all plastics which are then recycled. Despite recycling the waste of others, waste pickers often lack waste collection services themselves. Clasificadores risk their lives doing this.
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 9, 2023
Fast forward to April 2022, when BacTech, a publicly traded Toronto remediation firm, launched plans to use naturally occurring bacteria and a “bioleaching” process to break down some of that mining waste and recover what it claims are billions of dollars in nickel, cobalt, green iron and sulphur that have long been buried in those tailings.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 6, 2022
The food waste reduction strategy with the greatest environmental benefits is not recycling, it is prevention.
3BL Media
DECEMBER 5, 2023
December 5, 2023 /3BL/ - Building on the success of the Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment (PCFWC), nonprofit partners ReFED and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today announced the formation of the U.S. Food Waste Pact is designed around the global framework of “Target, Measure, Act,” and food businesses joining the U.S. In the U.S.,
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.
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Farm Powered anaerobic digestion is a powerful process that recycles organic waste, mainly food and beverage waste from the manufacturing sector and dairy cow manure, into renewable natural gas (RNG). Waste is Only Waste if You Waste It Food waste is a fact of life, whether it be in a home or at a factory.
Renew Economy
APRIL 5, 2023
The post Australia’s hydrogen “superpower” dream could be massive waste of money, says Griffith appeared first on RenewEconomy. Rewiring Australia's Saul Griffith tells government putting hydrogen at the centre of Australia's energy future makes no economic or thermodynamic sense.
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Progress Report , Aramark is committed to reducing food waste across its operations with the dual goals of conserving resources and minimizing the company’s environmental footprint. Aramark minimizes waste through a holistic food management process from planning and purchasing, to production and service.
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
SHANGHAI, February 8, 2024 /3BL/ - Otis Worldwide (NYSE: OTIS), the vertical transportation pioneer and industry leader, has achieved Gold-level TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) zero waste certification for all five of its manufacturing facilities in China. Administered by Green Business Certification Inc.
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
has made it a personal and business imperative to figure out the best ways to contain food waste. Long took the stage at Grocery Impact in Orlando to discuss why food waste initiatives are good for both business and society. Suzanne Long, Chief Sustainability and Transformation Officer at Albertsons Cos.,
Impact Alpha
APRIL 11, 2024
It’s the question I’m constantly asking myself about food waste reduction. There are many viable food waste solutions, and many. The post Opportunities across the investment spectrum to recycle and reduce food waste appeared first on ImpactAlpha. “Where are we?”
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.
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
and CINCINNATI, February 12, 2024 /3BL/ - Leading North American recycler, Rumpke Waste & Recycling (Rumpke) and molecular recycling pioneer Eastman , announced a groundbreaking partnership to help address the global plastic waste crisis. Eastman KINGSPORT, Tenn.,
3BL Media
MARCH 7, 2024
Huggies® brand and select Bright Horizons™ child care centers throughout Boston are teaming up on a new pilot program that aims to offset the environmental impact of used diapers and wipes going to landfill by turning it into electricity, heat or fuel through a process known as Waste-to-Energy. About Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.
3BL Media
JUNE 23, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Zero production waste. Essity works actively to turn production waste into a valuable resource with the target to reach zero production waste by 2030. Our production process generates waste in the form of ash, sludge, organic waste and plastic, particularly when recycled fiber is used as input goods.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
At Covia, we promote waste management practices aimed at reducing the volume of waste we generate, as well as encouraging the responsible handling of such waste. We are committed to complying with local, regional, and national laws and regulations regarding waste management, recycling, and proper waste disposal.
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