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Going green dramatically benefits businesses - it should be central to their coronavirus recovery strategy

Business Green

Frugalpac, a UK-based company that makes paper-based packaging for liquids that cut carbon footprints, received £2m investment during the pandemic - a time when most other companies were struggling for finance. This is reflected by the tenfold increase in global sustainability investment to $30.7tr by April 2019 since 2004.

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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2023 Leadership Award Winners

Green Technology

Ferguson continues to implement new packaging solutions and shipping techniques within their operations by improving packaging efficiency rates resulting in reduced expenses associated with replacing and shipping products. In 2004, Jeff co-founded the Center for Cities & Schools (CC+S) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified.

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AeroFarms is trying to cultivate the future of vertical farming

Business Green

AeroFarms was founded in 2004, and its products are sold in 200 grocery stores across the Northeast including Whole Foods. For example, Danville relies heavily on nuclear and natural gas for energy, which is one reason AeroFarms decided to build there. It operates one vertical farm in New Jersey, with more on the way.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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