Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

UK-based cereals company is set to reach 100 per cent recyclable packaging well ahead of 2025 deadline. Ultimately, all our packaging decisions are based on whether they reduce our overall carbon footprint," said John Petre, head of Supply Chain and Technical at Weetabix Food Company.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There are several ways that a company can make its operations more sustainable and green. However, the most important one is waste management and recycling. Recycling Is Good for the Environment. As per OECD, 22% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and only 9% is recycled globally. billion metric tons by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

A new adhesive derived from materials including food waste should enable 90 percent of engineered wood products, such as furniture and construction boards, to become fully recyclable and help to develop a circular economy in this sector, says the firm marketing it. The new adhesive is claimed to be sustainable and non-toxic.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But some companies are setting a trend for aiming to become net zero by the end of 2022. Crystal Doors were named Manufacturer Of The Year at the 2021 Business Green Leaders Award and Small Business of the Year at the Sustainability Leaders Awards 2021 due to their dedication to being net zero by 2022. Crystal Doors.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'. Even though the foundation is a separate entity, there is a close link between its mission and the company’s sustainability goals, according to senior executives. I've got history in sustainability, but I'm a business guy. Heather Clancy.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Manufacturing.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging.

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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2022

As we kick off a new year, it’s a good time to take a look at what is trending in the world of sustainability. Sustainability is the “new normal” From food production, to packaging, to fashion to lifestyle products, there is a clear effort to replace traditional demands with sustainable alternatives.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Kraft Heinz sustainability chief reflects on 'interdependence'. Food company Kraft Heinz has been relatively quiet about its corporate sustainability strategy in the five years since it was formed through the merger of food giants Kraft and Heinz — stepping out in early 2018 to provide an update. Heather Clancy.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2023

Over the past six months, the Greentown Go Make 2022 cohort of five climatetech startups has been working closely with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) (“MCA”) and the M-Lab Companies to accelerate partnerships to deploy and commercialize supply-chain-decarbonization solutions. The startup is based in Waterloo, ON, Canada.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Company announces goal to ensure Walkers, Doritos, and Lay's crisps use recycled or renewable plastic packaging by end of the decade. PepsiCo Europe has today announced a new ambition to replace all virgin plastics used in its crisp and chip bags with 100 per cent recycled or renewable plastic by 2030.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

Leading brand launches new effort to recycle flexible film packaging. A new frontier in plastic packaging recycling was opened this week, as Cathedral City announced a scheme to recycle flexible film cheese packaging.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The ban applies to the following single-use categories: Plates, bowls and trays unless you are supplying them to another business or the items are packaging (pre-filled or filled at the point of sale). If we want consumers to change their behaviours, we have to make the sustainable choice the easy choice.

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The company’s new range of Li-ion batteries features a modular design to optimize performance and packaging, and has been engineered with lifecycle sustainability in mind, including reuse and recycling at the end of life.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

Greentown Go Move 2022 brought BASF and Magna together with five climatetech startups to advance solutions that decarbonize the automotive industry’s life-cycle impact. BASF, the Leading Partner on Go Move 2022, is a global leader in chemicals and the number one chemical supplier to the automotive industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

New partnership between Evian and Loop aims to rollout 100 per cent recycled PET water bottles from early next year. Evian water has today unveiled a new recycled plastic bottle in partnership with clean technology company Loop, marking a major step towards its goal of using 100 per cent recycled plastic in all its plastic bottles by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

European legislative bodies have mobilized themselves en masse since March 2022, which is when several proposals aimed at product sustainability saw the light of day, most notably a circular economy business model.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Date/Time: January 18, 2022 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Companies are innovating at an unprecedented speed to offer products that are more sustainable and provide greater value to customers. For businesses to be truly sustainable, they must look beyond the immediate use of products and understand the full lifecycle of their impact.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 were announced on 23 June at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. The seven winners are: • Automotive, Electrical or Electronic Product: Sustainable modular headliner for vehicle interiors and downstream recycling solutions by Grupo Antolin.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Toy maker Hasbro has become the latest major brand to partner with TerraCycle to offer a free, UK-wide recycling programme for its products, enabling customers to send back old toys to be transformed into new items. Kay Green, UK country manager at Hasbro, said the initaitive would appeal to its consumers' growing sustainability concerns. "At

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. As the world's largest drinks producer, the Coca-Cola Company's decarbonisation and sustainability efforts have to be supersized.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to slash the range's carbon footprint, TWE said it had made a number of major changes across its European supply chain, including introducing lightweight bottles, boosting the recyclability of packaging, improving the efficiency of refrigeration systems, and installing solar power at some of its sites.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

Nfinite Nanotech , a Go Make 2022 participant, closed a $6.5M seed round to revolutionize flexible food packaging with nanotechnology. American Battery Technology Company , a lithium resource exploration and development company, surpassed capacity at its commercial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

From packaging to supply chains to recycling behaviours - staying environmentally ethical can, at times, feel like a full-time endeavour. Definition: Consumers want brands to take the guesswork out and make sustainable choices as easy as possible. Eco Acceleration.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Firm intends to roll out paper bottles for its Omo brand in early 2022 in bid to cut down on plastic. The consumer goods giant announced this morning it had built a prototype for the paper-based bottle for its laundry brand OMO, marketed as Persil in the UK, which it intended to sell in Brazil in early 2022 and Europe "soon after".

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

The Amazon Aware line includes apparel, home, beauty, and other products all of which have been "thoughtfully designed" using materials such as recycled polyester, organic cotton, and bio-based ingredients backed by independent green certifications that are specific to product type, according to Amazon.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Single-use plastic plates, cutlery, expanded and extruded polystyrene cups, food, and beverage containers set for ban in latest government proposals, but campaigners urge Ministers to further strengthen recycling and re-use policies. We want to reduce the use of plastics in packaging and ban its use in items linked to littering.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The global retail giant is beefing up its take-back service to mark Black Friday, but its sweeping sustainability plans extend far beyond recycling and re-use. That's one of the challenges we've identified that we feel like we can make a big impact on within our whole strategy," said Jenn Keesson, sustainability manager at IKEA US.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2023

The good news is we've already removed 100 tonnes of plastic packaging from deliveries to our customers - just one example of how we're reducing waste and promoting a circular economy. On the former, we're already reusing, reselling or recycling 96% of our waste network equipment. There are several more examples below.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Sustainable Medicines Partnership to launch four year programme next year aimed at developing greener solutions in healthcare sector. Deloitte and AstraZeneca have both joined a new not-for-profit body announced yesterday which is aiming to improve the environmental sustainability of the global healthcare sector and drive down medical waste.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 17, 2020

More precautions have meant more PPE, which usually has come in contact with biological matter that causes management challenges for recycling facilities. The designation indicates that 100 percent of the waste stream at the facility is reused, recycled or incinerated for energy. In the U.S., It has 35 of them.)

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Shortlisted companies can now reserve their place at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022, which will take place in central London on the evening of 22 June. Simply Sustainable. Sustainable Development Capital LLP and Primary Energy - Primary Energy Project. Canon - Inkjet Cartridge Recycling Programme. Anthesis Group.

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GreenBiz

JULY 28, 2020

The sustainability ambitions of the world’s largest cloud software companies — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce — have been well-documented. We’re introducing a sustainability scorecard into our supply selection process, alongside our traditional metrics for performance, cost and quality.". Heather Clancy.

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