9. Food Waste ‘Causes Losses Throughout the Supply Chain’
Grocery stores and other retail food sellers are losing as much as $15 billion a year in unsold fruits and vegetables alone, with about half of the U.S. supply going uneaten, according to an analysis on food waste by the National Resources Defense Council. The report found inefficiencies and losses in the U.S. food system through the supply chain, including farms; during processing, distribution and storage; in retail stores and food service operations; and in households…
8. US Airways, Shutterfly Drop Sustainable Forestry Initiative
US Airways, Shutterfly, Energizer, Allied Electronics, Phillips Van Heusen, Pitney Bowes and Ruby Tuesday will stop using the Sustainable Forestry Initiative seal on their products, bringing to 21 the number of major brands distancing themselves from the eco-label, according to non-profit ForestEthics. Many of these companies also have made commitments to shift over to products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council…
7. The Benefits of Life Cycle Analysis
“Assessing sustainability is a pursuit rife with complexity and subjectivity,” writes Elisabeth Comere, director of environmental and governmental affairs at Tetra Pak. She reveals the insights her company has gained through use of life cycle analysis…
6. Walmart Sustainability Index ‘Ahead of Schedule’
Walmart said its Live Better Scorecard – the company’s sustainability index to assess the environmental impacts of its products – is ahead of schedule, but did not say when it would be completed. The company also made announcements related to its monitoring of beef suppliers, and the installation of its biggest solar array to date…
5. What 2011 Taught Us about the Green Supply Chain (and What It Means for 2012)
David Schatsky recaps the blizzard of corporate sustainability news in 2011, much of which held important lessons surround sustainability in the supply chain…
4. Study: Organic Rice Syrup Linked to High-Arsenic Baby Formula
Dartmouth College researchers found arsenic in commercially available organic brown rice syrups – and the products that contain them. The researchers found that an organic infant milk formula containing the syrup as a primary ingredient had total arsenic concentrations up to six times the EPA safe drinking water limit…
3. San Francisco Suspends Apple Purchases
San Francisco’s city government said it will no longer buy Apple desktops, laptops or monitors after the company decided to withdraw its products from the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool registry. The company later decided to rejoin EPEAT…
2. Kmart, Supervalu, 6 Other Supermarkets Drop APP Toilet Paper over Forest Concerns
