3BL Media

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition, we have implemented programs to reduce the waste we generate. Due to various factors such as supply chain challenges, our ability to source alternative fuel vehicles has been slower than planned. REDUCING AND ELIMINATING WASTE We have a multi-pronged approach to reduce waste generated and minimize waste to landfill.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Opening Panel: The Human Dimension of Waste Collection. Who are the humans that are managing our waste? The informal waste economy is an often overlooked part of our global plastic supply chain.

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3BL Media

APRIL 23, 2024

“We only have One Planet, and right now that planet is overwhelmed with plastic and packaging waste. This year’s Earth Day theme of ‘Planet vs. Plastics’ was a perfect opportunity to highlight how we are working with our suppliers and customers to reduce plastics and packaging waste,” said Neil Russell, Sysco’s Chief Administrative Officer.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Originally published in FedEx's 2024 Global Economic Impact Report Delivering a more sustainable future FedEx works hard every day to make global supply chains smarter for everyone by leveraging advanced technologies to help optimize logistics. For more information on FedEx sustainability efforts worldwide, see the 2024 ESG Report.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2022

The number of touchpoints in a circular supply chain add up quickly — from official partners such as local retailers, manufacturers, packaging organizations and recycling companies to informal participants, including the individual waste pickers who help collect discarded items for processing in emerging economies.

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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. This would generate €3.5-€4.5

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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

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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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2020

It plans to engage with key stakeholders in its supply chain, which will be vital. Every aspect of the supply chain needs to be connected to create a more sustainable future,” said Iris Van der Veken, executive director of the Responsible Jewelry Council, during a session at the U.N. Supply Chain.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

Whirlpool Corporation is helping extend appliance lifespans and minimize waste. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com. 13 Refurbishment Centers, Countless Transformations! Discover the refurbishment journey where appliances and parts find new purpose. View original content here.

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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.). laws — especially solid waste laws — treat recycling and disposal the same, making it more difficult to recycle and more difficult to reuse equipment.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

SITGES, Spain and BARCELONA, Spain, November 1, 2023 /3BL/ - The second edition of The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Supply Chain Conference (SCC) officially closed with a networking dinner at Finca Villadellops, a vineyard on the coast of the Catalan region of Spain.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain. By comparing that number to initial inventory amounts, the kitchen tracks its food waste. . The system uses that information to recommend changes within foodservice operations aimed at reducing food waste. . Jesse Klein. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 01:00.

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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. The result is a closed and sustainable circular supply chain.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cainiao is leveraging its technology to provide supply chain solutions and will help P&G upgrade its own fulfillment services, Shuai Yong, Vice President of Cainiao Group, noted in a statement. These measures are part of a promise made by Alibaba to reach carbon neutrality and halve carbon intensity in its supply chain by 2030.

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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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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

They dont have the same regulatory requirements to disclose information that public companies do, especially when it comes to revenues and profits. The ranking includes key performance indicators (KPIs) in areas such as energy, water, and waste, and governance factors like gender diversity. Since 2019, it has cut air carbon by 7.5%

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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. Their approach was simple: buying only what was necessary, avoiding plastic, minimizing waste, and embracing a holistic, minimalist lifestyle.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2024

Vision is to recover polyethylene from hard-to-recycle waste for reuse in consumer packaging. P&G anticipates using this PCR polymer in their packaging, thereby enabling a path to circularity which helps maximize resource utility and reduces materials treated as waste. MIDLAND, Mich. For other P&G news, visit us at [link].

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

Feature by Gloria Figaroa Many consumers and companies understand the need to recycle or recover the 91% of global plastic waste that is mismanaged, ends up in landfills, oceans, and rivers, or is incinerated. Circular components are feedstock that is recycled from waste plastic, such as post-consumer recycled 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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

While ruling that the court did not have sufficient information to allow the request, however, U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II appeared to leave room for the law to be challenged if more information supporting the Chamber of Commerce’s case. SB 261 applies to U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Protesters hold these companies responsible for violations happening a long way down their supply chains. The supply chain is extremely lengthy and confusing. "In Ephi Banaynal dela Cruz, senior director of responsible sourcing at Microsoft, agreed: "Our supply chain has a lot of ambiguity built into it.".

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. I am witnessing the increase in education ignite behavior changes in some communities: less meat; less waste; more conscious decisions. .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Food loss and waste is a critical environmental, social and governance problem requiring urgent whole-of-chain action. The Consumer Goods Forum Food Waste Coalition of Action is committed to cutting food loss and waste —some 40% of all food grown is wasted. How can we help more people to waste less food?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

We can make sure that the cost is right and availability of alternatives are right, so the customer can buy an improved product without a lot of waste.". And it not only categorizes and analyzes ingredients but also connects food companies with suppliers, acting as an efficient middle man in the supply chain.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Food Waste Pact , a national voluntary agreement that is focused on reducing waste in the U.S. Food Waste Pact resource partner ReFED, 38% of food produced in the United States goes uneaten or unsold , with the vast majority becoming waste that gets sent to destinations like landfills, incinerators, and sewer systems.

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3BL Media

MAY 7, 2024

Centered on regulating production and consumption, the negotiations take every stage of the plastic value chain into account, from creation of the primary polymers to how plastic waste is managed. Additionally, it will require the evolution of waste management systems to deal with the legacy of plastic waste.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2024

With the need to tackle global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution, circularity is becoming increasingly important for businesses and organisations around the world. Education also has an important role to play, helping organisations to make more informed choices.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 10, 2022

DESCRIPTION: We are working with our suppliers to integrate environmentally sustainable practices throughout our supply chain and are committed to increasing the use of environmentally preferred materials and manufacturing processes throughout our company. Provide name and contact information of off-site wastewater treatment plant.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With a deep understanding of consumer megatrends and utilization of advanced technologies like AI and data clouds, this year Clorox continued to drive enduring innovation across our products, supply chain and business operations. Plastics Pact.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Informed consumers expect ethically produced goods , and employees prefer to work for companies with strong ESG values. Pollution and waste: Production processes often generate significant waste and emissions, impacting air, soil, land, and water quality.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

Canceled orders, excess stock, disrupted supply chains: The pandemic has laid bare some fundamental challenges with the way our clothes are designed, ordered, manufactured and sold — or landfilled, incinerated or sold on secondary markets. We don't have inventory, which decreases waste and emissions. The perfect pair?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But as companies work to shift supply chains and develop infrastructure to achieve ambitious plastics-reduction goals, offsets could offer a near-term approach to lightening a company's plastic footprint. Kristin Hughes, Director, Global Plastic Action Partnership, Member of the Executive Commit, World Economic Forum.

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