Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2021

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 4, 2021

Zero-waste to landfill initiatives also hold companies accountable for managing waste more sustainably and meeting compliance standards. To validate the end-sites, Link conducts on-site audits of their vendor partners to ensure sustainable practices are followed and further reviews the outlets’ sustainability goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The company monitors environmental impacts across all aspects of the business, having already switched to 100% green electricity and making additional packaging optional for customers. It is carbon neutral and managed to cut 10,000 food miles through use of local production and transport logistics.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Greentown teamed up with BASF and Stanley Black & Decker to find the top startups from across the world that are capable of disrupting the recycling industry and plastics and energy storage value chains. Corumat, based in California, micro-engineers bioplastics to reduce plastic waste. At the Feb. Read more here. Read more here.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

Priority areas for action are expected to include measures to curb emissions from agriculture, packaging, distribution, and operations. The company said it would focus on both reducing emissions from its operations and supply chain and enhancing resilience to climate impacts.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the study explores various different areas where consumer-facing companies must adapt to reach their climate goals, covering issues such as plastics and packaging, transportation and logistics, supplier enablement, and sustainable agriculture.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

It added that the development of lab scale prototypes could make the generation of essential raw and packaging materials more sustainable in the long-term by reducing some of the largest sources of emissions in global supply chains, while also saving on material, transportation, and logistics costs.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

There’s no doubt about it — we are in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. We’ve all seen the viral images of turtles with straws stuck up their noses, or whales washed up with bellies full of plastic bags. And one of the biggest contributors to this plastic crisis is the space we operate in: the cosmetics industry.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

Research agency unveils winners of sustainable packaging competition, which it says aim to 'alter the UK's relationship with plastic'. A flurry of green packaging innovations and plastic waste management projects have won a share of £30m from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

From 18 April, Uber Eats customers in Central London have been given the option to order their takeaway in reusable containers and easily return them – all in a bid to tackle single-use packaging. When placing their orders, Uber Eats customers can opt-in to receive their food in reusable packaging.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Lighting giant Signify has today announced a series of sustainability milestones, claiming it has achieved 'carbon neutral' status for its global operations, which it said are now also powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Plus, the touted sustainability benefits to deriving seafood-like ingredients from plants include reducing the reliance on open-sea fishing and fish farming, not to mention sidestepping the labor abuses found in seafood supply chains. Kelp-based "shrimp" is kosher and won't trigger a life-threatening shellfish allergy.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Supply chain sustainability is crucial for creating a green business. With this in mind, you can use this Green Business Bureau article as your checklist guide for supply chain sustainability. In this guide, we give you 20 tips on how you can create a more sustainable supply chain. Supply chain sustainability checklist guide.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

Environmental charity Hubbub is today (Tuesday 28 June) launching ‘Reuse Systems Unpacked’, a report uncovering the challenges and opportunities for reusable food and drink packaging systems. The research also identified the main motivators and barriers to people using reusable packaging schemes for food and drink. Key recommendations.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Jesse Klein explores how some leading businesses are navigating the complex choices that shape efforts to deliver more sustainable packaging. As consumer products companies hunt for more sustainable packaging options, some - notably smaller brands - are turning to aluminum as an alternative to plastic.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. These 7 sustainable developments are business opportunities that arise from key market trends we’re witnessing today. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Transporting people and things around the world sustainably and managing the world's waste are some of today's most complicated and pressing challenges. The impacts of climbing onboard a plane for your annual summer holiday or tearing open the packaging on a shiny new iPhone, freshly shipped from China, are well known.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The new strapline aims to highlight how "delicious food can also be healthy, sustainable and affordable", the company said. But observers are increasingly concerned about both the logistical planning for the event and the lack of clarity around the diplomatic goals the UK government has set as hosts.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

You also know the solution: In addition to recyclable and compostable alternatives, reuse models are quickly emerging as a fundamentally better alternative to single-use ones, not to mention that converting 20 percent of the world’s disposable plastic packaging into reusables is a $10 billion opportunity. . Circular Packaging.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Heineken is rolling out new cardboard packaging for its UK beer can multipacks in a bid to eliminate plastic from thousands of cans of lager ahead of the August Bank Holiday weekend, the brewing giant announced yesterday. In addition, Heineken said it was ditching the use of plastic shrink wrapping for consumer packs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

We recognise that we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to make the changes needed to help the planet exist sustainably. Most tricky will be addressing the supermarket's carbon footprint from deliveries and logistics, which accounts for almost a quarter of its total emissions.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new report from EDF and Sustainable Public Affairs showcases case studies on how companies are acting on climate goals, while growing profits. Decarbonizing packaging Since the 1950s, the world has produced over 9 billion tons (bt) of plastics. Of these plastics, around 36% are used in packaging.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The world needs ideas about how things could be made better and more sustainable while offering a high quality of life for humans everywhere. Electric vehicles will be everywhere, and be more sustainable. . We can ditch the single-use plastic packaging without forgoing the to-go food we love!

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Paper-based packaging firm Smurfit Kappa has joined with companies HVC and Bluemats to unveil an ambitious plan for the first full beverage carton recycling plant in the Netherlands. A new domestic facility would therefore be an enormous benefit from both an environmental and logistics perspective.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Public focus on the issue has only increased following the European Commission's proposals for a revision of its packaging and packaging waste legislation in November 2022.  . The proposal states that packaging (all materials) entering the EU market must meet design for recyclability criteria.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Curtailing the unnecessary use of plastic is crucial, but sweeping policies in this area have the potential to be counterproductive and damaging, writes Professor Umit Bititci. One of the prevailing narratives around sustainability and protecting the environment is that we have to eradicate, or at least massively reduce, the use of plastics.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ecopreneurship is a new way of doing business – a way to create sustainable business models, and work together with (and for) the environment. There’s no shortage of sustainable outcome gaps that need bridging, and market solutions are preferable to state and policy mandates in many of these cases. Sustainable Agriculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It’s estimated that UK consumers drink their way through a staggering 14 billion plastic drinks bottles, 9 billion drinks cans and 5 billion glass bottles each year. Over the course of the past few years, the approach to recycling and in particular, single use plastic, has drastically changed.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The compact machines, designed by Chilean sustainability start-up Algramo, will be located on-shelf in the store’s laundry detergent section. The technology will also help Lidl and Algramo to understand how many times each pouch is refilled and therefore how much packaging has been saved through the trial.”

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Tobacco giant promises to beef up existing environmental targets and make all plastic packaging recyclable. But as a multi-billion dollar industry with global supply chains the sector still has considerable environmental impacts, as well as mounting pressure from investors and customers to enhance its sustainability credentials.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Types: Design & Materials, Next-Gen Packaging, Business Model Innovation. Nearly 200 startups from 42 countries around the world entered the 2020 competition in hopes of being selected as the top up-and-coming business that is applying lessons learned from nature to solve for climate change and sustainability challenges.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Compass Group joins UN Race to Zero campaign as it promises to 'help build more sustainable food system'. By 2025 the company aims to switch 25 per cent of its meat offering to plant-based proteins, rising to 40 per cent by 2030, in order to "help build a sustainable food system".

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

Plus, the touted sustainability benefits to deriving seafood-like ingredients from plants include reducing the reliance on open-sea fishing and fish farming, not to mention sidestepping the labor abuses found in seafood supply chains. Kelp-based “shrimp” is kosher and won’t trigger a life-threatening shellfish allergy.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 5, 2020

Circular economy has rapidly become one of the most exciting areas for innovation, and the growth of materials and other circular companies in our pipeline reflects an increased awareness of the environmental impacts of fast fashion, plastic packaging, and building materials. ” Energy .

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

How two companies are building systems to scale reuse, which is vital for a circular economy Deonna Anderson Fri, 11/06/2020 – 01:15 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. million tons (29.9

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