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How To Implement A Sustainability Plan: Executive Guide To Becoming A Sustainable Business – STEP 6

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Manufacturing including production, sourcing, fulfillment, distribution and logistics. Waste team – What waste do we produce and where does it come from? How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution? Can we find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials (e.g. How much do we waste?

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How cosmetics retailer Lush is making purposeful profit through circularity

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By nature, cosmetics packaging is small and intricate, made up of many parts that are difficult to clean after use, resulting in the majority of this packaging going directly into landfills. Consider that the cosmetics industry brings in a booming $500 billion every year and imagine the waste created by default.

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How two companies are building systems to scale reuse, which is vital for a circular economy

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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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How To Create A Sustainability Plan: Executive Guide To Becoming A Sustainable Business – Step 4

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A holistic and well organized sustainability plan will include several key components: Part 1: Sustainability Drivers – This section summarizes the aspects of your business that use scarce natural resources, contribute to climate change, cause environmental harm or produce useless waste. How much do we waste? Is it hazardous?

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Brewery Sustainability: Getting Started Guide for Business

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These actions are needed as the brewing process is energy-intensive, uses large amounts of water, and generates high volumes of wastewater and organic waste. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful. Closed-loop systems need to be introduced to address this waste. Water is used for cleaning, cooling, and packaging the beer.

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How two companies are building systems to scale reuse, which is vital for a circular economy

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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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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

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As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. The first lieutenant managed logistics and transportation for humanitarian missions and exercises, including typhoon relief in Fiji and Saipan. Sustainability Manager, East West Tea Company; Eugene, Oregon.