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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3BL Media

APRIL 12, 2022

The easy-to-use dissolvable liquid pods and reusable, 100% recyclable bottle are the latest effort from the company to reduce plastic waste and provide more sustainable choices for consumers. DISSOLVE™ is the latest product innovation in SC Johnson’s efforts to help create a waste-free world. respectively.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2025

In 2019, for example, U.K. He appreciates its power to help cut waste, boost margins, and even concoct some novel drink recipes. Just as artificial intelligence has crept into professions like finance, retail, and content creation, its been heading for the corner pub, too. Like many in the business, Tomlin has watched the growth of AI.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

The ranking includes key performance indicators (KPIs) in areas such as energy, water, and waste, and governance factors like gender diversity. The companys second-hand effect conserves energy and raw materials, reduces greenhouse gases and minimizes waste. Since 2019, it has cut air carbon by 7.5% and ground carbon by 15%.

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3BL Media

MAY 29, 2025

Trane Technologies has reduced customer carbon emissions by 237 million metric tons since 2019, on track to meet its Gigaton Challenge goal to reduce one gigaton (or, one billion metric tons) of customer carbon emissions by 2030. Our customer solutions are green for green good for the planet, and good for our customers bottom line.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Here are a few of IKEA’s other recent waste reduction and circular economy efforts: The retailer plans to remove all non-rechargeable alkaline batteries from its global home furnishing offerings by October 2021. And that [with] everything we're utilizing in a store, there is no waste going to landfill," Keesson said.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The company has also reached zero-manufacturing-waste-to-landfill status across all of the plants in its global network. One of Gillette's 2030 goals is to maintain zero-waste-to-landfill status. P&G Corporate, Gillette's parent company, doesn't release numbers about how much waste is reused, recycled or incinerated across its brands.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention. A child picks up recyclable waste in a landfill.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Since launching this initiative in 2019, we’ve seen firsthand the impact that proactive solutions can have to help keep residents confident that their drinking water is safe while this important work is underway. How is Brita working with U.S. municipalities to support access to clean drinking water?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2021

These smart freezer sensors help Domino's, 7-Eleven combat food waste. Refrigerators, freezers and warehouses are vulnerable to malfunctions or human error issues that could result in spoilage and, ultimately, food waste. This link in the cold chain is part of the $161 million food waste problem in the United States. Food Waste.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 24, 2022

Much of the eight million tonnes of COVID-related trash churned out globally in the first two years of the pandemic was medical waste, but in the sweatpants-clad blur of back-to-back lockdowns, there was also a sharp rise in the single-use plastics involved in getting burrito bowls, groceries and all-things-Amazon delivered to our front doors. .

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 13, 2025

See also: Progress on Reducing Food Waste 2024 Year-End Data Report. Download the report.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2021

The company started implementing circular strategies for its products years ago — for example, it launched its used gear program in the United States in 2019. In 2019, Arc'teryx processed nearly 5,000 items in the first six months of the program, on which it partners with Trove , and the company said the program is continuing to grow.

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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. Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. The Recycling Partnership’s 2020 State of U.S.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We continue to work towards our goals, including diverting half of our waste from landfills by 2025. Responsible Procurement: We strive to choose products in our facility operations that improve energy efficiency, reduce waste and enhance air quality. We are diverting 50% of our waste from landfills.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

secondhand clothing market is projected to more than triple in value in the next 10 years — from $28 billion in 2019 to $80 billion in 2029 — in a U.S. In 2019, secondhand clothing expanded 21 times faster than conventional apparel retail did. The market value of this sector reached $2 billion in 2019. More mindful consumers?

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 10, 2024

The legacy of “waste colonialism” in the fashion sector is undeniable. Environmental impact and the shadow of waste colonization Launched in 2015, advocacy group Clean Up Kenya was initially focused on the environmental impact of single-use plastic bottles and packaging, but its advocacy has now broadened.

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3BL Media

MARCH 28, 2025

Even as O-I focuses on radically reducing enterprise costs, were raising the bar with updated sustainability targets for 2030, with 2019 as the baseline year. Energy Management : Weve created an energy strike team to find and destroy energy waste across our network. It does not cause end-of-life waste issues. degree pathway.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 5, 2025

In 2019, following several years of declining sales, Pandora embarked on a new strategy: to expand its product line beyond the luxury charm bracelets for which it had become famous and go all in on sustainability. As competitors like Tiffany and Signet see diminishing returns, Pandora ended 2024 with 31.7 billion krone (US$4.5

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GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

This year’s honorees (listed alphabetically) are: Jessica Aldridge , director of sustainability and zero waste programs, Athens Services. Before the formal inductions, attendees were also treated to a performance by Awa Ndiaye , a spoken word poet and 2019 GreenBiz Emerging Leader who is building a career in environmental management.

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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.,

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 26, 2022

the average person’s consumption of stuff has doubled in the past 50 years and, in 2019, North Americans disposed of almost 21 kilograms of electronic waste per person. The widespread production, use and disposal of plastics has deposited about eight million tonnes of plastic waste into the world’s oceans each year.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. Golf is making strides both on social and environmental impact. In the U.S.,

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 31, 2024

One of the significant areas of focus during this month is food waste management, specifically the innovative solutions rolling out across New England's higher education institutions, where food waste is being recycled through anaerobic digestion.

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3BL Media

JUNE 5, 2024

By Sandrine Duquerroy-Delesalle With six weeks to go before the European Elections , MEPs have had a busy week in Strasbourg, with many texts on the agenda for the final plenary session of the legislature (2019-2024) ! Among the texts voted was the Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation PWR.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The bipartisan legislation, which passed the Ohio House earlier this year and is scheduled for its first hearing in the Senate on Tuesday, would allow utilities to implement voluntary energy efficiency programs that reduce energy waste, save customers money, support grid reliability, and create jobs. Smith, Energy Management Solutions Inc.,

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In 2023, we proudly delivered “Laboratorio de los Sueños,” an innovative environmental classroom at the Isidoro School in El Rosario de Marinilla, built entirely from recycled plastic waste. The initiative seeks to promote a culture of recycling at Griffith Foods facilities and for our employees at home.

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3BL Media

MAY 12, 2025

Planet In addition to maintaining achievement of its emissions-reduction target, Sands met or exceeded desired levels of progress in other areas, including increasing its 2024 operational waste diversion rate by 6% over the 2019 base year, tracking ahead of the 5% increase targeted by 2025.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

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). However, just last week, the UN group that's in charge of implementing CORSIA agreed to set the baseline targets for 2019 because of the coronavirus, essentially watering down the targets.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. But it recently made a commitment to eliminate a substantial chunk of its plastic waste by 2025. . We're continuing to invest and put even more resources, even hiring some resources around the plastic waste issue.".

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to a 2019 survey by the United Nations (UN) and Accenture , 71 percent of CEOs believe that — with increased commitment and action — business can play a critical role in contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Implementing such incentive arrangements may not be straightforward. Pull Quote. Contributors. Ryan Resch.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Waste management $20,010 4% 57% 95% 100% B- 54 64 Cisco Systems Inc San Jose, U.S. Last years leader, Australian waste management company Sims Ltd., The bank has a rapidly growing green loan book and has provided just under $40 billion in renewable-energy financing since 2019. >>Access

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Because of our scale, we know it's our responsibility to address textile waste and then overall be thinking about how to keep products in use for the long term, and to design out waste from the beginning,” said Jeannie Renne-Malone, who has served as the vice president of global sustainability at VF Corp since Sept. Media Authorship.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its 2019 sustainability report , for example, features a menu of links to a comprehensive data resource and all reporting frameworks from every page of its digital report. For example, MetLife, in its 2019 sustainability report , disclosed its diversity (gender and ethnicity) data against key industry benchmarks by Deloitte and McKinsey.

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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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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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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2023

World’s largest cruise company has delivered 38% reduction in food waste per person, nearing ambitious milestone of 40% reduction by 2025 ahead of 2030 goal Company remains committed to its long-term sustainability roadmap and to reducing its environmental and greenhouse gas footprint MIAMI, Fla.,

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