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Cutting Emissions To Create Measurable Business Value

How can carbon footprint reduction translate to create measurable business value? That’s just one of the hot issues on the agenda at American Business Conferences’ Carbon Footprint Consumer Products Summit, taking place this February 26-27 2008 at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, San Francisco. Industry leaders from famous and upcoming ... Read more »

Nestle, Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes, Others To Cut Water Use

A group of 21 companies, including Birds Eye Iglo, Cadbury Schweppes, GlaxoSmithKline, Nestlé UK, Premier Foods, Tate & Lyle, Unilever and United Biscuits, agreed to cut their water use by 20 percent by 2020, reports the Financial Times. Along with agriculture, food and drink companies are the biggest industrial users ... Read more »

HP, L’Oreal, Pepsi, Others Asking Suppliers For Emissions Info

Hewlett Packard, L’Oreal, PepsiCo, and Reckitt Benckiser have joined the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration, which wants to create a single standardized approach to measuring the carbon footprint of supply chains. The companies join Cadbury Schweppes, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Tesco, Imperial Tobacco, and Unilever, who signed on ... Read more »

Food Companies, GRI Developing Sustainability Reporting Guidelines

Nestle, Bunge, Tyson Foods and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters are working with the Global Reporting Initiative to develop specific sustainability reporting guidelines for the food processing industry. The result, the Sector Supplement on Food Processing, will be open to a public comment period and will be an addition to the ... Read more »

Bottled Water Manufacturers Face Uncertain Future

The bottled water backlash is costing beverage makers money, AdAge reports. Beverage Digest reports that retail sales of bottled water (excluding vending machines and Wal-Mart) grew only nine percent this year compared with 16 percent in 2006. Joe Doss, president of the International Bottled Water Association, said the bottled-water industry has been unfairly targeted. He claims that bottled water is

Icelandic Glacial Wins Sustainability Award

Icelandic Glacial Natural Spring Water took the top environmental prize at this year's BottledWaterWorld awards in Mexico. With the industry facing pressure over its impact on the environment, the theme of this year's event centered on sustainable growth and ethical endeavors, Icelandic Glacial's CarbonNeutral initiative overcame competition from major global beverage brands such as Coca-Cola...

Nestle Waters’ CEO Counters Bottled Water Criticism

Kim Jeffery, president and CEO of Nestle Waters North America, has written an opinion piece for Hearst Newspapers countering recent criticism of the bottled water industry. "Those who propose bans on bottled water don't acknowledge that bottled water represents less than one percent of the municipal solid waste that ends up in landfills," Jeffery writes. "Bottled water is only one

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