3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2024

We also look for opportunities to improve sustainability in our supply chain and support more diverse businesses. Quest works with our largest suppliers to minimize waste through initiatives like streamlining shipments and reducing packaging. Thats why we hold them to the same standards of ethics and integrity that we adhere to.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Fighting Food Waste: Lessons from COVID. . What emerging strategies have been employed to tackle food waste during the pandemic, and how can we scale these strategies in the future? But the food system sprang into action — adapting operations, overcoming barriers and scaling promising innovations to reduce the amount of waste.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. For meal kits, packaging waste was one of those unintended consequences.

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3BL Media

MAY 30, 2022

SUMMARY: Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggered new supply chain disruptions, but supply chains face additional challenges. If unaddressed, supply chain challenges will hamper economic recovery and long-term growth. for advanced and developing economies, respectively. Here's what they said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Compostable packaging finds a niche with food waste. It is a really good solution where you have food waste," Goodrich said. Meg Wilcox.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Supply chain and sustainability topics have dominated global business headlines for more than two years. The interconnectedness of climate change and supply chain disruptions highlights the complexity of supply chains, including the impact in realizing the 2030 vision of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition, we have implemented programs to reduce the waste we generate. We also continued to conserve and optimize energy usage at our facilities using enterprise-wide operational best practices we developed in 2022. We continue to assess and explore innovations in waste management to reduce our environmental impact. "We

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Adidas and H&M Group are among a host of fashion and textile firms to have teamed up for an EU-funded sustainable fashion project announced in late November, which aims to develop a circular economy for clothing that would result in old garments and fibers being recycled into new items for major high street brands. Supply Chain.

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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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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.

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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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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

In the context of sourcing and supply chains, we’ve seen this movie before. In a circular supply chain, sourcing no longer focuses exclusively on virgin materials. Yet, these efforts traditionally have acknowledged only one phase of a material’s life.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2024

Vision is to recover polyethylene from hard-to-recycle waste for reuse in consumer packaging. and CINCINNATI, April 30, 2024 /3BL/ - Dow (NYSE: DOW) and the Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to create a new recycling technology. MIDLAND, Mich.

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2025

PITTSBURGH, PA July 1, 2025 /3BL/ -- Wesco International (NYSE:WCC), a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, issued its annual sustainability report today. Sustainability is a journey.

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 12, 2025

For decades, a handful of countries has maintained a dominant position in the global supply chain, accounting for approximately 70% of worldwide production. In response, resource-rich nations such as Australia are prioritising the development of independent processing capabilities to reduce strategic vulnerabilities.

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3BL Media

JUNE 19, 2025

A comprehensive sustainability strategy can improve profitability, strengthen supply chains, and position businesses to meet investor, customer, and regulatory expectations head-on. Beyond compliance, companies are also contending with increasing supply chain volatility.

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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. . There's just so much waste in this industry. That's one of the human costs we see along the chain in order to get these inexpensive materials. . Kirstie Dabbs.

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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Creating human-made materials from living or biological sources is by no means a new development, yet newly invented bio-based materials are garnering significant hype as of late. By 2013, following several years of studying, research and development, Hijosa had a Ph.D., Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

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.). in the last 10 years, we’ve lost 90 percent of our market share in solar and we’re importing most of the materials [for solar energy development.]

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

A proliferation of greening initiatives from industry players has emerged with public announcements of policies to tackle this issue, measures to address their supply chain footprints, promotion of circular economy practices and encouragement for sustainable brands growing increasingly popular. But it is not all doom and gloom.

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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. It also says it has installed capacity of around 28 megawatts of wind power and is developing photovoltaic plants with a planned capacity of approximately 58 MW. and ground carbon by 15%.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

million in a seed financing round, with proceeds aimed at commercializing its low-energy and low-cost solution to upcycle plastic waste for re-use. Key barriers to increasing plastic recycling include waste contamination and intense energy usage. Plastic production and disposal constitute more than 5% of global CO2 emissions.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

The company is developing new store concepts to shift the lighting installations and also adjusting its procurement policies for electricity in its network so that its stores are more energy efficient, and that it is sourced from renewable sources sourced wherever possible, according to Twomey-Madsen. Supply Chain.

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3BL Media

JULY 1, 2025

By designing for disassembly, choosing materials that can be reused or remanufactured and prioritizing recycled materials, we extend product life, cut waste and find potential opportunities to lower costs. When our product engineers start developing new products, they plan for every stage of the equipment’s lifecycle.

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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.

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3BL Media

MAY 2, 2025

When we invest in sourcing with intention, we honor traditional knowledge and help build resilient supply chains that can sustain future generations. From diverting 85% of our operational waste from landfill to completing third-party verification of our carbon emissions, were holding ourselves accountable and striving to improve.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular — ensuring that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, establishing new business models to increase their use and developing systems that would enable more old clothes to be turned into new garments.

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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. At the same time, landfills are one of the largest producers of GHG emissions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When I cover solutions to the plastic waste crisis, I typically focus on infrastructure development and bringing recycling systems to scale, standardizing materials, inventing new ones and designing out unnecessary single-use items, and rethinking business models and supply chains. Mon, 11/23/2020 - 01:00. In the Loop.

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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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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

APRIL 8, 2025

At Cisco, we have been focusing on evolving from a linear economy that extracts resources and eventually wastes them, to a circular one that finds new uses for products and their inputs. She has collaborated with Ciscos Circular Design team to develop a series of industrial routers with Circular Design Principles at the core.

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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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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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