3BL Media

MAY 3, 2022

The global hub is helping to accelerate the move towards more conscious consumerism by giving consumers confidence when purchasing planet-friendly items without them having to conduct research or face a barrage of greenwashing. Ethical and Sustainable Assessment System, developed in collaboration with Ethical Consumer Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

The group says it believes that the use of LCA can assist with informing evidence-based decisions on product development and design, support supply chain and procurement decisions, track performance over time of packaging changes, improve overall environmental outcomes in line with strategy and policy, and challenge misinformation and greenwash.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The guideline document, which aims to tackle the ongoing problem of ‘greenwashing’, provides new consumer protections from misleading environmental claims and levels the sustainability playing field for businesses. Of course, when it’s measurable, it can be controlled, monitored, and turned into tangible change.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The company has developed a new material, also called Toraphene, that uses biopolymers that “compost naturally and biodegrade without human intervention, even in the ocean.” Such bioplastics have effectively been ‘greenwashed’, he said, and mis-sold to environmentally responsible consumers and companies.

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Waste Supply Chains Supply Chain Greenwashing 98

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The voluntary model operates in tandem with policy development, “but can deliver impact faster, and with more flexibility, than regulation alone.” A Target-Measure-Act approach, developed by WRAP, ensures rigorous evaluation of progress, giving transparent and publicly reported updates against targets to avoid greenwashing.”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Also referred to as value chain emissions, Scope 3 covers indirect emissions – so everything that happens in all aspects of a supply chain. Companies can also harness established systems like the (GHG) Protocol which, amongst other things, offers a Corporate Value Chain Standard Online Course to help companies get started.

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Net Zero Supply Chains Supply Chain Greenwashing 52

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Offsetting also helps our customers reduce their carbon footprints for water services, gets our carbon reduction strategy and targets in place, and starts reducing our own operational emissions which in turn influences our supply chain. If you aren’t prepared to make mistakes, you won’t learn.

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