Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Establishing employee engagement in retail sustainability. Employee engagement in retail is vital to effectively achieve your green goals – and to unlock this engagement you need to establish a green culture. We know you’ve been working hard to create a sustainable retail business. Sustainability Guide for Retail.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. What is retail sustainability? To operate indefinitely, a retail brand must meet environmental, social, and economic demands.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. That’s the goal for e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative, which sells household and personal care goods. Most recently, in December, the retailer closed a $125 million funding round, which according to the company brought its valuation to $1.32

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

Packaging innovation could pave the way to making reuse the everyday choice of consumers in UK supermarkets, according to a report released on 16 June. Lack of consumer readiness is often cited as the reason for low investment in circular systems at scale. The report is titled ‘Ready to prefill?

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

The escalation of COVID-19 across the globe has hampered recycling efforts in Europe and North America. It’s also not great news for waste management and recycling, with recycling centers closing in most cities across the world, which has led to service disruptions for consumers. What do we do with household waste and recycling?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The proposals in the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) consultation on business waste are anti-competitive and will force successful recycling businesses into administration, The Recycling Association has warned. Business collections are already a mature and successful market that encourages innovation.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

PragmatIC says its technology could allow a low-cost inlay (tag) to be incorporated in packaging, allowing consumers to access information about product usage, food storage, cooking instructions and local recycling. A 2015 study by the UK waste and recycling advisory body Wrap estimated that of the 7.3 tonnes was actually edible.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The new packaging labels introduced by the On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) organisation. Easier to understand recycling labelling has been welcomed by The Recycling Association. When combined with the OPRL labelling, this will lead to much higher quality recycling.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The biggest brand names and retailers in New England now have more options for obtaining fabric resources. Thanks to a new FABSCRAP building, clothing sellers and designers have a more sustainable, eco-friendly option.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The East European nation joins other 13 EU countries that have launched deposit return schemes (DRS) with the aim of increasing collection and recycling rates of single-use beverage containers. The system deployed in Slovakia currently supports 93% recycling rates.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Only 9% of all plastic is recycled and it can take hundreds of years to degrade. Recycling is critical, but the world cannot rely on that alone. Join Tetra Pak in this discussion about ways companies can incorporate more renewable and recyclable content into their packaging to have the lowest impact on nature. .

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 15, 2021

Hazardous Waste Recycling: The proper disposal of batteries, paint and chemicals, lightbulbs, and electronics. Recycling is one of the top and most cost-effective ways to reduce waste in the workplace. Challenging Business Recycling Initiatives. The most common recycling items in the workplace are paper, plastic and metal cans.

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GreenBiz

JULY 24, 2020

They take decades to break down but nearly 100 billion of them are used in the United States every year to cart away goods from retailers. Fewer than 10 percent of those are recycled — often winding up in landfills and waterways because many recyclers don’t accept them. 3, will seek innovative ways to "reinvent" the retail bag.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. But COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in those plans, with single-use packaging skyrocketing, low fossil fuel prices and disrupted recycling systems, already weakened by China’s 2018 plastics waste ban. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

LanzaTech, a carbon recycling tech company, views addressing those industrial emissions as an opportunity. And in its latest announced partnership with athletic apparel company Lululemon, it’s creating yarn and fabric using recycled carbon emissions. Innovation. That equates to about 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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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. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.

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GreenBiz

MAY 22, 2020

Recycling is going to take a real punch to the face, to be quite fair," Szaky said during GreenBiz Group’s Circularity 20 Digital event this week, pointing to the continued decrease in oil prices and the pressure that's putting on the economics of using recycled plastics.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

I also have observed firsthand how technology-driven innovation is disrupting the traditional grocery supply chain, opening new doors to reducing food waste and helping the world to think differently about how we source food. At HelloFresh, we established a three-pronged packaging commitment: avoid, reduce and innovate. In the U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

This Global Recycling Day (18 March), Robert Lockyer, CEO and founder of Delta Global, a sustainable packaging solutions provider for luxury fashion brands, discusses some of the ways in which he believes the industry is making great headway in terms of recyclability, as well as where more can still be done. Product innovations.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Of the 95 percent of textiles able to be recycled or reused, only 15 percent are recovered from the waste stream. Lizee enables brands and retailers to incorporate circular rental models that help lower the volume of discarded textiles. Innovation. The largest source of textiles in municipal solid waste is discarded clothing.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. “We Also, we helped design clothes with natural and monofibers that are recyclable. Holly Secon. Infinity Goods.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion. Goals that are specific, yet ambitious.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 15, 2021

Hazardous Waste Recycling: The proper disposal of batteries, paint and chemicals, lightbulbs, and electronics. Recycling is one of the top and most cost-effective ways to reduce waste in the workplace. Challenging Business Recycling Initiatives. The most common recycling items in the workplace are paper, plastic and metal cans.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Then the pandemic hit, and the market changed — characterized by higher demand for single-use packages and bags, and lower availability of recycled materials. Recycling takes center stage. Reusable solutions are one path of a circular economy, but there is far more effort to advance another circular approach, recycling.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

tonnes of plastic from ending up in landfill over the next year, according to organic baby food retailer Little Freddie. Organic baby food brand Little Freddie has released its first fully recyclable baby food pouch, designed to allow parents to recycle empty baby food pouches at home and reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in landfill.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Morrisons has opened a new store in Essex designed with environmental considerations to the fore, estimating the "innovative, low impact" shop will emit 43 per cent less carbon, produce "almost zero waste", and stock hundreds of "loose" products that require no packaging.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The chain has taken an innovative tack: it's still encouraging its shoppers to use reusable containers for all areas of its stores, but it's changed the way the bulk shopping operates. Reuse can reduce the amount of waste that will need to be recycled or sent to landfills and incinerators. . million tons (29.9

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

Climate-aware and eco-friendly clothing, homeware, and personal care products form part of major new product line from the tech and retail giant. The new line of products - initially launching today for customers in the US, Canada, and Europe - is being given its own brand store on the online retail giant's website, the company said.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Since the day of the milkman, companies have launched untold schemes to skip recycling for its less energy- and material-intensive cousin: reuse. While using packaging over and over again is no new concept, recent business model innovations have seen a resurgence of reuse-inspired services.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

A jolt in this direction came overnight as COVID-19 drove people indoors, forcing many to rethink how they reduce, reuse or recycle items they took for granted only weeks earlier. Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

The company claims this enables waste plastics to be recycled an infinite number of times without degradation of quality. With both CRT and PRT, hard-to-recycle plastics can be recycled an infinite number of times, says Eastman, creating products that can claim high levels of certified recycled content — a true closed loop.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

Dow's Marco ten Bruggencate provides a glimpse into its new partnership with Mura Technology though which it is developing a new advanced recycling solution for plastics. Only nine per cent of plastic ever made has been recycled globally, and almost 80 per cent of plastic ends up in landfill or our environment.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In 2021, I’ll be watching CPG and food and beverage companies, which have been scrutinized for one-off pilots and an overall failure to move quickly enough towards commitments to make all packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025. Metrics begin to materialize. While source reduction continues to be the No.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Clothing and textiles manufacturers could be forced to pay more towards the costs of recycling their products at the end of their lifespan, as part of a host of plans to combat waste and support the circular economy which are set to be unveiled by the government today. per cent and 15.9 per cent respectively from 2012 to 2019.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Opened for the first time this morning, the trial store is aimed at helping customers to reduce, reuse and recycle waste as they shop, while also helping the supermarket chain save roughly one million pieces of plastic annually, Asda said.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

The initiatives are related to P&G's current sustainability goals introduced in 2018, Ambition 2030, which include a commitment to make its packaging 100 percent recyclable or reusable by 2030. . I think perfection is [figuring] out the technologies to make this so that that bag and tap are also just easy curbside recycling.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

Online retail giant Amazon has taken another step towards curbing plastic waste across its operations, today announcing that it has stopped packing products in single-use plastic delivery bags and envelopes in its UK distribution network. times lower greenhouse gas emissions than stationary retail - including the returns process.

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