Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 22, 2022

The post Home Depot Has Cut Electricity Consumption by 44% Since 2010. Home Depot’s stores will run entirely on renewable energy by 2030. Solar will provide 75% of that by the end of 2023. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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3BL Media

APRIL 4, 2025

HATs operations have already reduced water consumption by 33% since 2010. Henkels Commitment to Water Stewardship Henkel has set ambitious goals to reduce its water footprint, targeting a 35% reduction in water consumption per ton of product by the end of 2025 (compared to our 2010 baseline).

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2024

After two years of design and manufacture, the plant is now operational and provides a strong foundation for further expansion of this technology to support the world’s challenges with electronic waste, which is simply discarded electrical or electronic devices.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Founded in 2010, and made up of globally recognized members, HPRC engages in pioneering projects designed to help boost plastics recycling efforts in clinical settings of hospitals. Peylina has served as the Executive Director of HPRC since its early days in 2010.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. How can other companies find success in winning over their suppliers toward eliminating the very concept of waste in their products? Instead of oil, we use waste," he said.

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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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Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 22, 2022

The post Home Depot Has Cut Electricity Consumption by 44% Since 2010. Home Depot’s stores will run entirely on renewable energy by 2030. Solar will provide 75% of that by the end of 2023. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 7, 2025

Transitioning to a circular economy The transition from linear to circular business models is reshaping how industries operate, creating opportunities to reduce waste and maximize resources. But there is still more to be done. Reusing or recycling nearly 100 percent of the products that are returned to us.

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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. And IP has increased recovery of OCC by 60% since 2010. That is 12% of the entire U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

It will work with personal computer manufactures to create "the most sustainable and energy-efficient PC in the world — one that eliminates carbon, water and waste in its design and use." . Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. According to the its latest report , Intel has delivered on the vast majority of them.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It's the exciting idea that we can take something that could be considered waste, draw it out of the atmosphere and turn it into a source of revenue or economic growth. What’s on my mind? Carbontech, a category of climate tech I’d love to see break through next year. There are signs that give me optimism.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 19, 2023

Last November, the European Commission proposed new EU-wide rules to reduce packaging waste by 15% by 2040, compared to 2018 levels. According to the European Commission, each person living in Europe produces, on average, roughly 180 kilograms of package waste per year. Zimbabwe banned plastic bottles and packaging back in 2010.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 10, 2022

Dutch airline KLM has been viewed as a trailblazer for its use of cooking oil as fuel on a commercial flight in 2010. Biomass and municipal waste. Saville says that biomass, made from algae, crop residues, animal waste, forestry residue and municipal waste, could also have big potential as an aviation fuel. “If

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Food waste is a major problem in the United States, with about one-third (30%-40%) of the country’s food supply becoming waste, according to USDA 2010 estimates. Read the full story at Centered.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 27, 2025

Peylina has been an integral leader of HPRC since its early days in 2010. January 27, 2025 /3BL/ - The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tracy Taszarek as its new Executive Director. Tracy succeeds Peylina Chu, who is retiring from Antea Group after a distinguished career.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

This is largely because of its dependence on agriculture, which consumes the most water by far, slurping up roughly 70 percent globally and wasting about 60 percent of that, largely through inefficient applications. Both Barclays and CDP cite L’Oréal as a leader in reducing water waste.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Currently, IBM has a set of environmental commitments, including achieving Net Zero GHG Emissions by 2030 and diverting 90% of nonhazardous waste (by weight) from landfill and incineration by 2025. This eliminates the extra energy consumption, waste and emissions that invisibly failing parts would cause. In 2021, IBM registered a 61.6%

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 15, 2023

Save and distribute the food that’s wasted Millions of Canadians are food insecure, yet 58% of the food produced in Canada each year is lost or wasted, according to Second Harvest, a food rescue organization. Canada’s goal is to reduce the amount of food wasted by 50% by 2030. million tonnes of food waste by 50% by 2025.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2025

Many sectors, including manufacturing, technology, and construction, need talent that can help improve efficiency, reduce usage of raw materials, minimize waste, and help protect the environment.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sustainable facilities When building or expanding facilities, FedEx includes programs and technology to manage waste, conserve water, and reduce the carbon footprint of its operations. FedEx and the World Resources Institute have been teaming up since 2010 to create what is now the Mobility and Accessibility Program (MAP).

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3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2022

When a human released a cyber worm known as ‘Stuxnet’ into a physically air gapped facility in 2010, it became obvious to the world that new cybersecurity strategies were needed.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Operational sustainability, the reduction of Fifth Third’s environmental and carbon footprint, has been key to our environmental sustainability program since its inception in 2010. Although we have not yet achieved our waste reduction goal, we have made great progress in reducing our waste by more than 1 million pounds annually.

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2024

“I am looking forward to working with Nic more closely on the Executive Committee and leveraging his strategic thinking and European perspective to advance HPRC’s mission of creating a more circular economy for healthcare plastics.”

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

domestic sales, which were estimated at $267 billion in 2021, and a projected goldmine of global industrial meat production associated with expansions of beef, pork, and chicken exports since 2010. This includes U.S. It is reported that the four largest meat processing conglomerates operating in the U.S.,

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

She pushed executives to see climate issues not just as an emissions problem, but as the source of new business opportunities through innovations in sustainable materials and processes, such as producing ethanol from plant waste and reducing the volatile organic compounds in paints.

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3BL Media

APRIL 5, 2022

Throughout its long history , Henkel developed innovative products and manufacturing processes that save resources and cut waste. Other sites have tackled the energy waste that occurs when motors run at full speed even when production has slowed. Note: Compared with 2010 baseline. Accelerating Progress.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Met our goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 13% in advance of the 2025 deadline, compared with a 2010 baseline. Remained on track to reduce the waste sent to landfills and incinerators by 92% by 2025, compared with a 2010 baseline. Rowe Price’s 2021 ESG activities and progress include: Environmental.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Non-ferrous metal recovered from e-waste on an Eddy Current Separator Recovering the valuable metals present in e-waste is challenging, involving liberation, sizing, and separation. Bunting’s separation equipment recovers ferrous and non-ferrous metals at various stages in the e-waste recycling process.

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 9, 2022

Procter & Gamble has cut emissions at all of its global operations by 52% from 2010 to 2020. It has done so using energy efficiency and renewable energy. The post Procter & Gamble Is Well On Its Way to Using 100% Green Electricity appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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ESG Today

JULY 11, 2024

Founded in 2010 with an initial focus on developing small hydropower projects, Oregon, U.S.-based based NLine Energy provides technology aimed at converting wasted energy found in steam distribution systems from boilers at commercial and industrial facilities into renewable power.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Established in 2010, HPRC is a member-based technical coalition that aims to enable implementation of viable, safe, and cost-effective recycling solutions for plastics products and packaging used in the delivery of healthcare, and to advocate for and help create a more sustainable and circular economy for these materials.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 15, 2023

Waste heat re-use will also lower the demand of input energy needed to produce heat.” An even more ambitious set of net-zero standards was proposed in March 2023, all in the service of slashing emissions by 55% by 2030.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 3, 2023

Our tree planting efforts are equal to recycling 2,100 tons of waste, or replacing 230,000 standard lights with LED lights,” said Teddy Mendoza , HBI Director, Corporate Safety and Sustainability – Global. Planting trees is one of the most effective and least expensive ways to fight climate change.

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3BL Media

MAY 29, 2024

Key issues highlighted include the potential health impacts on vulnerable patients and the general public due to increased plastic exposure, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastic production, and the significant amount of waste generated. Visit our website to learn how you can get involved in these efforts.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He’d always had a thing against waste – in his early 20s, he and a carpenter friend launched a start-up, crafting wooden bow ties and tie clips out of offcuts from his friend’s workshop – and wanted to see genuine efforts to reduce it. Stonemeijer, who graduated from the University of Exeter’s Business School in 2018, may be one of them.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With the goal of bringing more awareness to the topic of healthcare plastics recycling, HPRC convened a few key players from across the value chain to discuss how they think about healthcare plastic waste, recycling, and the sustainable future of these important materials.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 4, 2022

While global plastic waste is on track to nearly triple by 2060 , research shows that only 9% of plastic waste is effectively recycled. The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) believes that in addition to “reduce and reuse” initiatives, recycling is critical to solving the plastic waste problem.

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