GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design. When most people think about good design, they might think of an Eames lounge chair, an iPhone or Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture. Arguably, the best design of all time. . Here are five finalists using biomimetic design to tackle thorny human problems: .

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The healthcare industry requires a broad spectrum of materials to manufacture packaging solutions medical devices, diagnostic and pharmaceutical products. Reduction in packaging waste is an increasingly important topic for the industry as it seeks to achieve a circular economy. In 2021, DuPont partnered with B.

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3BL Media

JUNE 17, 2022

Our approach covers reducing the power consumption of broadband, thus reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which is a topic I explored in this blog ; and minimizing the environmental impact of our broadband products and their packaging, which is my focus in this article. Product design. Packaging design.

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3BL Media

MARCH 6, 2024

DENTON, Texas /March 6, 2024/ 3BL – Tetra Pak, a pioneer and world-leading food processing and packaging solutions company, is pleased to announce its participation in a special event at the Fast Company Grill from March 9-11 during Austin’s largest annual film, music and conference festival, SXSW. Austin, Texas Mar.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To help lower our footprint, we seek to incorporate sustainable characteristics that include recycled materials into our product design, manufacturing and packaging operations. Product responsibility drives our operations, and we aim to: Utilize recycled materials and minimize unnecessary content and packaging. RESPONSIBILITIES.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

To achieve that designation at its World Shaving Headquarters in Boston, Gillette worked with local recycler Rand Whitney Recycling to do an in-depth assessment on all of its waste streams, with a goal of ensuring all would be either reused, recycled or incinerated for energy recovery. Use 100 percent recyclable packaging.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

EV design and manufacturing comes with an entirely different set of challenges, even without a global pandemic as a backdrop. From EV design to manufacturing and battery optimization and production, we must address needed changes head-on for a radical, new approach to design and manufacturing. EV design changes.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

I admit, I hadn’t considered software design as a major contributor to greenhouse gas. Green software takes into account sustainability considerations and climate science to design software that is "carbon-efficient" — meaning it minimizes the quantity of carbon emissions per unit of work. Design & Packaging.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

An education campaign was launched on 27 October 2022 to help raise awareness among small businesses about the benefits of adopting the Australasian Recycling Label ( ARL ) and taking action to improve the sustainability of their packaging. A series of free online training topics will also be available, developed by the AIP.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This six-month program is designed to support managers at Alkermes through a combination of monthly modules, peer circles and independent exercises. Leadership in Action Leadership in Action is a series of panel discussions focused on established leadership behaviors and designed to guide and align our leadership principles.

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3BL Media

JUNE 6, 2022

All of the topics that CPA is working on – including design for recycling, optimized collection and sorting, uptake of recycled content and research on recycling technologies – are all topics that HPRC is also actively working on. For more information, visit www.hprc.org and follow HPRC on LinkedIn.

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Scotch™ Brand recently rolled out its latest packaging innovation made from 100% recycled paper, Scotch™ Cushion Lock™ Protective Wrap. In developing Cushion Lock, we set out to reinvent packaging. But in mid-2019, he talked with some coworkers about creating a packaging material that could expand and become thicker.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods , is dragging the packaged food business into the 21st century. . In 2018, the global packaged food industry generated $2.77 Journey Foods uses AI to create sustainability recipe for food manufacturers. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/20/2020 - 02:00. Pull Quote. Food & Agriculture. Food & Agriculture.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more? The circular economy: where design thinking saves both cost and the environment The concept of a circular economy is not new. Take for example a wireless access point. cut metal, etc.)

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 15, 2024

It’s a touchy topic. were designed to meet the standard of the national health organizations [including the American Heart Association’s Heart-Check program] to create a product that delivers the taste satisfaction and utility of 80/20 beef – yet is demonstrably healthier,” said Beyond Meat’s founder and CEO, Ethan Brown.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Also, we helped design clothes with natural and monofibers that are recyclable. The company serves as a delivery service where groceries come in reusable containers, then get retrieved, cleaned and reused in future deliveries, cutting out the plastic packaging waste and relieving the customer of doing any work themselves. Innovation.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These innovative ideas addressed topics such as reducing packaging waste, lowering GHG emissions on shipping, and a water-saving showerhead. These projects included developing packaging solutions using more environmentally friendly material and exploring a product circularity and end-of-life program.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With the goal of bringing more awareness to the topic of healthcare plastics recycling, HPRC convened a few key players from across the value chain to discuss how they think about healthcare plastic waste, recycling, and the sustainable future of these important materials.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 22, 2020

Here are some highlights from this week's precursor, which featured an interview on the viability of reusable packaging, and two panel sessions — one on the future of recycled plastics in an age of cheap oil and one on the role of repair in circular economy strategies. Have a question or suggestion for a future segment? Contributors.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2022

My current role, as I define it, is a bit somewhere between science and reality; in a sense, to be a bit ahead of the group and a bit of a strategic thinker supporting the strategies that we need to have on important sustainability topics. We have a few ingredients and a few different packaging materials, and that's basically it.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

A huge chunk of COVID-related government spending has necessarily focused on welfare payments and the health response, but the report concludes that even when the focus is narrowed to look only at measures designed to deliver a longer-term economic recovery, only 18 percent of spending has "positive green characteristics.". Pull Quote.

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Sphera

MAY 13, 2022

Packaging plays a key role in the modern economy. Despite the benefits it provides, packaging is under intense scrutiny. One example of more stringent legislation is the European Union’s amended Directive 94/62/EC on P ackaging and P ackaging W aste , which prescribes higher recycling targets for certain packaging materials.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 23, 2024

By using less material in each package, we decrease material usage and our overall energy consumption and the associated GHG emissions. Designed to be completed by 2030, the targets focus on the inherent recyclability of metal and commitments to foster an ever more responsible industry. facility contain an average of 18.7%

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3BL Media

JANUARY 9, 2024

Organized by the site’s Mental Health Working Group, which was established in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdowns, the event addressed topics such as healthy eating, weight management, anxiety and depression, financial wellness and more. Our Wantage, U.K. site held the Company’s first Mental Health & Well-being Day.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities. Corporate Strategy. Sponsored Article.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

Resources include raw materials, products, energy and water are used efficiently and kept in productive, high-value loops for as long as possible, through product and service re-design. One of the most prominent challenges of any circular approach is how to treat the ubiquitous problem of packaging.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It’s also worth noting that plastic makes up less than 1 percent of Bacardi’s packaging.) But we’re left with the unfortunate acknowledgment that Bacardi is designing bottles to end up in waterways and oceans rather than investing in infrastructure to prevent marine plastics in the first place. Circular Economy. Plastic Waste.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The same is true for plastics: A company’s move to offset the production of sachets and bottles going forward doesn’t acknowledge the tons of packaging already in landfills, waterways and oceans. . It could drive necessary investment into communities and waste management systems. Given that U.S. Pull Quote. Circular Economy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

Chipotle is the latest company to spice up its executive pay packages to include social and environmental goals. The trend to link ESG metrics to executive pay is a departure from traditional compensation packages, which have relied almost entirely on financial measures — earnings per share, revenue growth and other factors.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

With the Biodiversity Benchmark, the aim is to integrate biodiversity into existing materials and sourcing strategies, rather than approach biodiversity as a new or disconnected topic. The aim is to integrate biodiversity into existing materials and sourcing strategies, rather than approach biodiversity as a new or disconnected topic.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 16, 2022

Registrations for processing and packaging trade event AUSPACK 2022 are now open. The long-running biennial event, part of Packaging and Processing Week, is heading back to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 17–20 May 2022. Materials and packaging design. Preventive maintenance. Network security.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Optimum Circularity Implements Crown’s Circularity Strategy throughout our value chain by eliminating wasteful resource use, utilizing design and innovation to decrease the footprint of our products and by working to extend our products’ lifecycle via increased recycled content and recycling rates.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails. 7 tips for companies developing reusable packaging. Creative disruption: Design thinker TIm Brown, chair of IDEA, discusses the two major models that catalyze systems change. Heather Clancy. Fri, 09/04/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Contributors.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I am cataloging various things that are accruing into who I am, and the title of it is, 'Waging Peace Through Commerce by Design.'. I imagine that that was a critical piece of how you got into design and architecture as a profession. Makower: So, what was the path from there to sustainable design? Mon, 02/22/2021 - 02:11.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Digital innovations such as Tidal’s that provide better insights into fish farming operations — alongside new recirculating aquaculture system designs and purification advances, such as the "nanobubbles" generators designed by startup Moleaer — are contributing to rising levels of speculative activity. Oceans & Fisheries. Food Systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The PRSE Virtual conference will examine the latest developments in plastics recycling, practical solutions for the sustainable use of plastics, dealing with plastic waste and better design for recycling. Virginijus Sinkevi?ius,

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