Food & Beverage

Bruce Karas Discusses Coca-Cola Water Stewardship

Bruce Karas Discusses Coca-Cola Water Stewardship At the 2011 Green Initiatives Conference Bruce Karas, VP of environment & sustainability at Coca-Cola Refreshments discusses the company's environmental goals ...

November 29, 2011

Water Bottle Filler, Mobile Market Win Chicago Innovation Awards

Water Bottle Filler, Mobile Market Win Chicago Innovation AwardsA bottle filling station for drinking water designed by Elkay, a construction fleet tracking system by Navman Wireless and a school bus converted into a market ...

November 22, 2011

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Coins, Organics Vote, LEED

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Coins, Organics Vote, LEED The U.S. Mint announced that its West Point, N.Y., facility has been accepted in the Energy Department's Superior Energy Performance program, just one of the steps ...

November 22, 2011

Coke, MIT Machines Reward Consumers for Recycling

Coke, MIT Machines Reward Consumers for RecyclingCoca-Cola, Kroger and MIT are all rolling out bottle recycling machines that reward consumers for their deposits. Wholly owned Coke subsidiary Coca-Cola Recycling has started ...

November 21, 2011

Food Manufacturers ‘Holding Back rPET’; Lush Outsources Recycling

Food Manufacturers ‘Holding Back rPET’; Lush Outsources RecyclingThe use of recycled PET in the food sector is being held back by poor quality control and by brand owners’ misconceptions, according to ...

November 18, 2011

Asda Launches $1.3bn Sustainabilty Savings Drive

Asda Launches $1.3bn Sustainabilty Savings DriveSustainability initiatives carried out by U.K. grocery store chain Asda saved the company £70 million ($110 million) in 2010 and it has committed to new goals ...

November 17, 2011

Who’s Driving Sustainable Seafood?

Who’s Driving Sustainable Seafood? At the start of Day 2 of the European Seafood Exposition, SeafoodSource Editor Steven Hedlund and Contributing Editor Jason Holland answer ...

November 17, 2011

EL Pro Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005

Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005Heinz has cut its production of solid waste per unit of production by 45.6 percent since 2005, according to the company’s 2011 Corporate Social ...

November 15, 2011

Coke Makes 100% Recycling Pledge for 2012 Olympics

Coke Makes 100% Recycling Pledge for 2012 OlympicsCoca-Cola has promised to recycle all clear plastic PET bottles used at the London 2012 Olympics, according to news reports. The company has ...

November 10, 2011

Ecological Impact of the Bottled Water Industry

Ecological Impact of the Bottled Water IndustryThe IBWA reports that the bottled water industry maintains a strong commitment to environmental protection, stating that bottled water waste contributes to about ...

November 8, 2011

Packaging Key to Sustainable Society, EUROPEN Says

Packaging Key to Sustainable Society, EUROPEN SaysPackaging should be seen as an integral part of achieving a resource efficient society, according to a paper by packaging trade body EUROPEN. Green Paper on ...

November 7, 2011

Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Make More Sustainable Food

Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Make More Sustainable Food Consumers today want healthier food that has minimal impact on the environment.  The reality, however, is that agriculture is one of the biggest contributors ...

November 2, 2011

Chicago Airports Plan Solar, Alternative Fueling, Composting

Chicago Airports Plan Solar, Alternative Fueling, CompostingThe Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) announced a series of sustainability initiatives at the 2011 Airports Going Green conference in Chicago, including plans for a ...

November 2, 2011

Kroger Progressing on Sustainable Fish Goal

Kroger Progressing on Sustainable Fish GoalKroger has announced that 65 percent of its top 20 wild-caught seafood species are sourced from fisheries meeting its sustainability standards, ...

October 31, 2011

Calif. Sues Firms Over Degradable Bottle Claims

Calif. Sues Firms Over Degradable Bottle ClaimsBottle manufacturer ENSO Plastics and drinks companies Aquamantra and Balance Water are being sued by the California attorney general's office over claims that they misled customers ...

October 28, 2011

EL Pro Walmart and the Food Movement

Walmart and the Food MovementJack Sinclair, executive vice president of grocery merchandise at Walmart, and Jib Ellison, CEO of Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting, talk with ...

October 28, 2011

Water Woes Hit Gap, Kraft, Nestle, MillerCoors

Water Woes Hit Gap, Kraft, Nestle, MillerCoorsCompanies including Gap, Kraft and MillerCoors are all dealing with financial hits from water shortages and floods, according to news reports. The Gap cut its ...

October 27, 2011

Coke’s Sustainability Role at the 2012 Olympics

Coke’s Sustainability Role at the 2012 OlympicsCoca-Cola discusses its activities as a sponsor of the London 2012 ...

October 27, 2011

Factory Farming Is Not the Best We Have to Offer

Factory Farming Is Not the Best We Have to OfferOver the last half-century in the US, small farms have been replaced by large, industrialized operations that treat animals and the natural ...

October 27, 2011

Packaging Brief: Fishery Products International, PET Recycling and Flexible Packaging Use on the Up

Packaging Brief: Fishery Products International, PET Recycling and Flexible Packaging Use on the UpSeafood supplier Fishery Products International is switching to sustainable packaging made from 100 percent recycled fibers. The new packaging is produced through a partnership of three companies ...

October 17, 2011