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Amazon is building robots at scale in Massachusetts

Stacey Higginbotham

Amazon has built a fleet of robots to help workers get packages from its warehouses to your door, and on Thursday it showed off two new ones. The first is Sparrow, a machine designed to pick up items (not packages) from a container and place them in a different container. The skeptic in me thinks Amazon protests too much.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

I think speed is of the essence, not just for PepsiCo, but for the whole world, for the planet and all the people in it," Andrew told me when I asked for the motivation behind the accelerated goal. But what I think it's done, it's really shone a light on the need to be even bolder and move even faster. What has it done?

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Ferguson encourages action towards a greener tomorrow??

Green Technology

We think about making healthier lifestyle choices this time of year but consider a resolution to help create a healthier planet. Newly designed high-efficiency fixtures and systems provide the same comforts as their wasteful counterparts. The reasons to avoid disposable plastic are endless. Let’s not forget plastic tableware.

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How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025

GreenBiz

How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. Plastic-free by 2025. It is our intention to hold everyone to the zero-plastic commitment," Stuart Landesberg, Grove founder and CEO, told GreenBiz during a recent conversation. "If Deonna Anderson. Thu, 04/29/2021 - 01:30.

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Heroes & Zeros: A small English soccer team is showing the World Cup how to do sustainability right

Corporate Knights

The stadium menu soon featured only vegan items, and single-use plastics were banned. I just don’t think there has to be a conflict between the environment and economics and ethics,” Vince says. As if to make the point, work is due to start soon on a new stadium for the team, made entirely from timber. We’re not so sure.

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These are Canada’s 50 fastest-growing green companies of 2023

Corporate Knights

A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. 2 company, Surrey, B.C. News reports indicated Steer had bought cheap bracelet devices from China. Sounds like a climate activist’s wish list.

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How Vitasoy Is Driving the Plant-Based Sector in Asia

B the Change

In particular, soy and oat milks have become a thriving segment of China’s alternative food industry and are gradually composing a significant part of the Chinese diet. We have already quantified our full scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. How do you make choices between, for instance, carton packaging and plastic?