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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

GreenBiz

Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil. They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. In 1996, the company began working with suppliers toward using nylon produced from waste.

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Cisco's Sustainability 101: What Is E-Waste?

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Instead of helping you listen to music, they have now become what is sometimes referred to as e-waste. The European Commission explains that E-waste contains a complex mixture of materials, some of which are hazardous. These can be recycled and re-used if the waste is effectively managed. How much e-waste is there?

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How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation

GreenBiz

Lean: WEAR and no TEAR How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation What goes up must come down To arrest the growing effect on nature and curtail the rise in temperatures, countries across the globe are devising measures to rejuvenate Mother Earth. The aim is to reverse the temperature by 1.5-2.0 deg Celsius.

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VF Corp leans in to the circular economy and regenerative ag

GreenBiz

VF Corp leans in to the circular economy and regenerative ag. For example, back in May, Timberland announced that it planned to introduce a collection of boots using regenerative leather sourced from Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed ranches, which have 600,000 acres that have been transitioned to regenerative practices.

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Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe

GreenBiz

You can’t stick an instrument in a bucket of palm oil and measure whether there was deforestation or forced labor in its supply chain. During the session, with panelists from large agricultural companies Cargill and Mars, regenerative agriculture took center stage. . So they’re not product attributes, they’re process attributes.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

Leveraging pineapple leaves, a waste product of the pineapple industry, Ananas Anam uses a low-energy, low-water, chemical-free process to convert the leaves’ natural fibers into a leather-like material called Piñatex. In the cases of Mushroom Packaging and Piñatex, their biological source is considered an agricultural byproduct or waste.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

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. .