Sustainable Packaging & Paper
Sustainable packaging and paper uses minimized packaging and more recyclable materials such as papers that can be re-pulped and reused. If recycling is not feasible, biodegradable materials that quickly break down and biodegrade in landfills are utilized.
SCA Achieves First Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Plant in North America
SCA announced its first zero-waste-to-landfill manufacturing plant in North America. The plant, in Bowling Green, Ky., manufactures SCA's Tena line of incontinence products.
The facility, which opened ...
Danone Developing Bio-Based Bottles with Avantium
Danone, the global food and drinks manufacturer, has partnered with biotech company Avantium to produce bio-based plastic bottles made from renewable material that ...
Kimberly-Clark to Launch Bamboo Toilet Paper
Kimberly-Clark's U.K. line of Andrex toilet tissue will launch Andrex Eco, made with 90 percent recycled fiber and 10 percent bamboo, the company said.
All ...
Enhancing Sustainability through Responsible Supplier Partnerships
In most environmental preferable purchasing (EPP) programs, the policies primarily focus on the end product because that is easier to see, manipulate and ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: ASHRAE Guideline 32, Cool Planet, e-Stewards, Greenguard, FSC
ASHRAE's newly published Guideline 32-2012: Sustainable, High Performance Operation and Maintenance aims to give facility managers guidance on operation and maintenance of buildings to ...
Starbucks, Stonyfield Paying Own Recycling Costs as Local Authorities Struggle
Food and drink companies such as Starbucks are increasingly bearing the costs of recycling their own packaging, which they then turn into new products, according ...
Liberty Paper Mill to Self-Power with Anaerobic Digester
Liberty Paper's mill in Becker, Minn., is expected to completely self-power using a $15 million water pretreatment plant with bio-gas generator, writes the Minneapolis ...
HP Lightweight Paper Targets 22% Raw Material Reduction
Hewlett-Packard is introducing a lightweight paper designed to reduce the environmental impact of printing and paper storage by up to 22 percent.
HP Paper Thin will ...
Unilever Asks for Help on Environmental Projects
Unilever's Open Innovation team has launched an online platform seeking technical solutions for reducing its environmental impact while doubling the size of its business.
The ...
The Benefits of Life Cycle Analysis
Assessing sustainability is a pursuit rife with complexity and subjectivity. One tool that I have seen that is useful in navigating this ...
Nestle Easter Eggs’ 100% Recyclable Packaging Saves 726 Tons of Plastic Waste
Nestle UK & Ireland has converted to 100 percent recyclable packaging on its Easter egg confectioneries by replacing rigid plastic with cardboard. The move is ...
Green Mountain College To Buy Back its Own Recyclables Under Closed Loop System
Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt., will buy products upcycled from its own waste under a new sustainability initiative from Casella Waste Systems.
The Power of ...
GRI Releases Sustainability Taxonomy, Public Comments on G4
The Global Reporting Initiative has released a taxonomy for tagging sustainability data in reports and has released the results of the first public comment period ...
The Business Case for Product Sustainability
Global directives, national initiatives, state, and local regulations are all affecting what companies should or should not use in their products. Additional pressure is ...
Johnson & Johnson Expands Green Product Range
Johnson & Johnson now has 30 products in its Earthwards portfolio of environmentally conscious health care and pharmaceutical products.
The company added 19 products to the ...
Xerox, Barnes & Noble, Walmart Complicit in Pulping Protected Tree, Greenpeace Says
Xerox, National Geographic, Danone, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and many other companies are using illegal wood pulp from an internationally protected tree species, according to ...
Best Practices in Communicating about Sustainability
While sustainability initiatives have boomed in recent years, many companies are still seeking help in developing strategy and others are struggling ...
Xpedx Surpasses Sustainability Goals, Sets More
Distribution company Xpedx exceeded its sustainability goals on recycling and the Energy Star certification of its facilities in 2011, and has pledged new goals for ...
BioMass Packaging Launches Compostable Cup Range
BioMass Packaging has added modular, single-serve cups and lids to its line of compostable food service products.
Greenware cups (pictured) and lids are made entirely from ...
SC Johnson Expands Concentrated Cleaning Products Range
Household products manufacturer SC Johnson has expanded the range of concentrated refills for its cleaning products.
The refills, branded as SC Johnson's "Mini" line, allow customers ...
