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. Our focus is to first help reduce emissions resulting from IT purchase as much as possible and then offset remaining inevitable emissions.

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3BL Media

MARCH 3, 2025

Kjesbu says that replaces the use of 154 tonnes of virgin plastic with plastic removed from the waste stream, an amount of plastic equal to 7 million rubber ducks per year. Less weight means less energy is required to ship the phones in bulk, reducing supply chain costs and emissions. View original content here.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2025

Bank & Vogue lowers the manufacturing carbon footprint of the Coach bags by shipping pre-cut pieces that are later assembled in Coachs factory. Bank & Vogue works with hundreds of suppliers and customers to give products seen as waste a new life, encouraging them to avoid landfills by making reuse a profitable option.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 14, 2025

2 Energy consumption also occurs throughout Lenovos value chain. Energy is used by Lenovos suppliers and its supply chain is encouraged to develop energy targets, use renewable energy, and report energy usage. By FY 2025/26, 90% of our global operations electricity will be obtained from renewable sources.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 13, 2025

The forum heard many examples, including anopportunity to reduce emissions from concrete production which contributes around 8% of global carbon emissions, or more than aviation and shipping combined. Medium businesses can scale up and strengthen supply chains. Achieving net zero will benefit everyone.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 22, 2025

For example, businesses can collaborate with social enterprises to provide viable technology to benefit underprivileged communities, schoolsand non-profit organisations while minimising the environmental impact of e-waste. Organisations that adopt reusable and secure packaging solutions can significantly reduce waste.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2025

New York bets big on green economy with Brooklyn climate innovation hub DuPont agrees to $27M settlement in Hoosick Falls water contamination lawsuit This startup turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values Cleaner fish: Tiny healers or hidden spreaders in coral reef ecosystems?

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Eco-Business

JULY 10, 2025

A total of 29,000 rooms and 55,000 beds had been arranged so far, it was announced, including nearly 4,000 rooms on board two cruise ships dispatched by the government. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Economic growth 9. Infrastructure 10. The presidency organised a special briefing in response to many complaints.

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Utiliity Dive

JULY 8, 2025

After years of shifts towards widespread renewable energy adoption, presidential executive orders are pausing federal investments in new wind and solar projects, slowing the development of clean energy supply chains and manufacturing. It would take years for restarted plants to meet current standards and come up to speed.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . The companies said the jet fuel will be made from agricultural waste fats and oils (such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing). Supply Chain. Logisitics.

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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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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

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. The companies said the jet fuel will be made from agricultural waste fats and oils (such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing). A drop in the fuel tank.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Lenovo’s International Services Supply Chain (ISSC) is the winner of the 2023 Award of Excellence for Making an Impact from the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM). We firmly believe that authentic sustainability leadership extends far beyond symbolic actions like curbing travel or planting trees.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In a recent webinar with Supply Chain NOW, two of DP World’s foremost experts — Terry Donohoe , CEO of DP World in the U.S. and Mexico, and Glen Clark , Senior Vice President of Freight Forwarding for DP World Americas — explored how SMBs can partner with sustainable supply chains to gain a competitive advantage.

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

This sustainable packaging process efficiently and reliably meets DICK’S Sporting Goods’ growing customer needs, reduces packaging waste, and improves the overall customer experience. DICK’S Sporting Goods’ use of the Packsize system creates boxes that are perfectly fitted to the over 2,000 SKUs it ships to stores and customers.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In late 2020, the company is finding early commercial success in its mission to decrease food waste through its innovative packaging. Shipped the traditional way, the fruit was arriving with very low pressure — indicating a riper fruit, meaning the retailer had to sell the fruit quickly. And decrease food waste. .

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Retraced, a Germany-based online platform that enables apparel brands to digitize, trace, and analyze sustainability compliance and risks in their supply chains, announced Wednesday that it had raised €15 million in a Series A funding round.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 21, 2023

Some of these greenhouse gases are produced from healthcare facilities; others are the result of the industry’s supply chain of goods and services. Now, teams must consider the environmental footprint of products at every life cycle stage, from design, sourcing, production and distribution to waste disposal and recycling. "We

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the past few years, as consumers looked to cut down on plastic waste at the grocery store, more mainstream supermarkets turned to bulk shopping bins as a solution. In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

One such advancement came as a new packaging system that uses product-to-package ratio optimization technology to cut down on the use of shipping materials significantly. The switch to digital delivery notes also eliminated the need for protective plastic covers and improved the overall recyclability of our shipping cartons.

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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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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. Shipping & Logistics.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2022

“Organizations can gain faster near-term value from bringing back existing products and reusing them for innovations that help achieve net-zero and net-neutral goals across the supply chain.”. Manufacturers are also moving factories closer to remanufacturing locations, reducing emissions from shipping and logistics.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Waste is the largest contributor to the company’s overall sustainability footprint, making Zero Production Waste to Landfill a key component of Henkel’s 2030+ Sustainability Ambition Framework. Henkel’s operations teams are working toward an ambitious Zero Waste to Landfill target at all of their operations facilities.

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2025

Today we are thrilled to share more about the specific marketplace changes and progress each brand is making to advance a more sustainable future: Amazon Sustainable Cargo and Shipping: Amazon is recognized for its leadership in Sustainable Cargo and Shipping, making significant strides toward net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

France’s Veolia helped turn Master Kong’s waste plastic bottles into recyclable PET pellets Storage boxes created from PET bottles had a 21% smaller carbon footprint, Alibaba Cloud certified Master Kong, an instant noodles and beverage giant in China, teamed up with Alibaba Group and French utility Veolia to help shrink its carbon footprint.

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3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

Our team has a challenging but inspiring goal: to boost our environmental stewardship by improving and evaluating everything from packaging, waste reduction, water management, and ingredient sourcing. Supply chain responsibility. To garner more control and general oversight, we decided to bring many of these functions in-house.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

In food, for instance, business models and distribution methods were reshaped in a matter of weeks, as supply chains flexed to keep groceries in stock and farmers struggled to offload overripe crops. Yet Dame Ellen MacArthur herself is floored by the rapid pace of change in business that has been forced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

and CINCINNATI, February 12, 2024 /3BL/ - Leading North American recycler, Rumpke Waste & Recycling (Rumpke) and molecular recycling pioneer Eastman , announced a groundbreaking partnership to help address the global plastic waste crisis. Eastman KINGSPORT, Tenn.,

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3BL Media

JANUARY 4, 2024

89% of organisations currently recycle less than 10% of their IT hardware[1], resulting in over 50 million tons of e-waste dumped into the environment every year[2]. Lenovo Asset Recovery Services helps minimise e-waste and our Recertified solutions offer refurbished devices and servers.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL Group announced today the launch of its GoGreen Plus service for its international courier division DHL Express, enabling customers to address Scope 3 emissions from shipping through the use of sustainable aviation fuel.

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ESG Today

APRIL 24, 2023

small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), enabling SMEs to address their emissions from shipping through the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The SAF supplied by bp and Neste are produced from waste oils, and can provide lifecycle greenhouse gas emission reductions of up to 80% compared with conventional jet fuel.

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