Beauty Products
Avon GHG Emissions Fall, But Energy Use Rises
Avon's GHG emissions intensity for its global manufacturing fell 6.6 percent in 2010, from 36.6 to 34.2 metric tons of CO2e per million units, ...
Food Manufacturers ‘Holding Back rPET’; Lush Outsources Recycling
The use of recycled PET in the food sector is being held back by poor quality control and by brand owners’ misconceptions, according to ...
Reckitt Benckiser 75% of the Way Towards 2020 CO2 Goal
Reckitt Benckiser, the company behind Lysol, Durex, Clearasil and other well-known brands, is three-quarters of the way towards its 2020 carbon reduction ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: WEEE Revision, REACH Review, Honda LEED Certifications
The European Parliament's environment, public health and food safety committee is expected next week to endorse a proposal that would strengthen EU rules on e-waste, European ...
L’Oréal Plans Second N.J. Solar Array
L'Oréal USA has announced that its Franklin, N.J. manufacturing facility is partnering with GeoPeak Energy in a power purchase agreement to install a 1 MW photovoltaic ...
L’Oreal Buys Veolia Wastewater Treatment Plant
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies is constructing a wastewater treatment plant to reduce the environmental impact of cosmetics company L'Oreal's manufacturing facilities in Asia.
The treatment plant ...
L'Oreal Cuts Water Per Product, Carbon, Waste; VOCs Up
L’Oreal made improvements on almost all of its environmental measures in 2010, including water consumption, carbon emissions, SO2 emissions and waste output, according to ...
Body Shop Sustainability Leader Discusses FSC
Interview with Simon Henzell-Thomas, Head of Sustainability, Body Shop International at the FSC General Assembly 2011.
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Boiler Rule Delay, Obama's 56 mpg Plans, Asbestos Exports
The Environmental Protection Agency has further delayed issuing its final air toxics standards for boilers and certain solid waste incinerators, until April of next ...
Renewables Briefing: L’Oréal, Snyder’s-Lance, Cape Wind
L'Oréal USA is partnering with GeoPeak Energy in a purchase power agreement (PPA) to install a 1.4 MW photovoltaic solar system at L'Oréal’s ...
Seventh Gen, Whole Foods Top Green Brands Ranking
Seventh Generation and Whole Foods have topped survey respondents' rankings of the greenest U.S. brands, even as consumer appetite for green products expands to include ...
Burt’s Bees, Marks & Spencer Share Staff Engagement Tactics
Burt’s Bees sees engaging its employees as the most critical and challenging of all its sustainability targets for 2020, the Guardian has ...
Standards Briefing: GRI, GSA, Green Seal, Whole Foods
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced that development is now underway on G4, the next generation of its Sustainability Reporting ...
Garnier Sponsors Industry-Wide Recycling
L’Oreal brand Garnier is partnering with recycling organization TerraCycle for an initiative to turn cosmetics packaging into playgrounds.
Individuals or groups who sign up to ...
EPA Says 19 New Chemicals Require Testing
On January 7, 2011 the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA announced a new rule for manufacturers of 19 additional high production ...
Lysol, Woolite Maker Halfway to Carbon Target
Household and cosmetic product manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser (RB) has announced it is more than halfway to its 2020 carbon reduction goal, only two years after ...
Aveda Sustainability Report: Company Halves Municipal Waste
Cosmetics brand Aveda says it cut municipal waste at its main manufacturing plant nearly in half in the last two years, but its industrial waste ...
Burt's Bees CSR Report: Hits Waste Target, Misses on Electricity, Water
Cosmetics firm Burt’s Bees has met its company goal on waste to landfill for fiscal year 2009-10, but missed the year’s targets for electricity and ...
P&G Pilots Sustainable Packaging for Beauty Products
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) plans to pilot the use of renewable sugarcane-derived plastic on selected packaging for its Pantene Pro-V, COVERGIRL and ...
Zotos Mfg Plant Gets Nod to Build 3.3-MW Wind Power Project
Zotos International, a hair-care manufacturer, has received final approval for a $7 million, 3.3-megawatt (MW) on-site wind power project for its manufacturing plant in Geneva, ...
