Ocean Spray Launches Plastic Packaging Recycling Program
Ocean Spray Cranberries launched a free recycling program this week that allows consumers to recycle the company’s flexible plastic packaging for dried cranberries.
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Unilever’s Biz Relies on ‘Cheap, Multipurpose’ Plastic, but Wants to Change, CPG Says
One area of direct concern for Unilever is the fact that just 14% of the plastic packaging used globally makes its way to recycling plants, and only 9% is actually recycled, while 40% ends up in landfill. Cheap, flexible and multipurpose plastic has become the ubiquitous material of today’s fast-moving ... Read more »
Ocean Spray Announces 100% of its Fruit Crop Will Be Sustainably Grown
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. this week announced its commitment to advance sustainable agriculture practices across the entirety of its farmland by 2020.
Water Usage & Energy Reduction: 7 Steps to Savings
The complexity of managing water usage continues to escalate, especially with the effects of climate change leading to an abundance of water in some areas and drought conditions elsewhere. This is leading many areas to increase regulation, raise rates, and tighten budgets around water use as part of aggressive conservation efforts. Fortunately, smart water management technologies can deliver
7 Must-Have Smart Tech Solutions for Reducing Water Usage and Costs
The complexity of managing water usage continues to escalate, especially with the effects of climate change leading to an abundance of water in some areas and drought conditions elsewhere. This is leading many areas to increase regulation, raise rates, and tighten budgets around water use as part of aggressive conservation efforts. Fortunately, smart water management technologies can deliver
Beverage Industry Drafts GHG Emissions Reporting Framework
Diageo, the Coca-Cola Company, AB InBev and other members of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) have published a document that establishes a common framework for greenhouse gas emissions reporting — an industry first, member company Heineken says. The guide harmonizes reporting within each category — beer, wine spirits, carbonated ... Read more »
Co-ops: the Future of Sustainable Business?
Cooperatives are often seen as being green-minded, but are they really more sustainable than businesses with more traditional set-ups? The days a of a small hippie-run cooperative grocery store as the norm are long gone. Co-ops are now big business. Revenues for the 300 largest co-ops total more than $2 trillion ... Read more »
Teijin Device Reduces Ships’ NOx Emissions
Teijin Engineering has developed a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) denitration device for midsized ship engines to ensure compliance with the Tier III nitrogen oxides emissions regulation, which goes into effect in 2016. The company says ship tests have demonstrated that the device can reduce NOx emissions by 80 percent. The ... Read more »
Steps to Harvesting Water from the Clouds
One of the more innovative methods of gathering freshwater is harvesting it from clouds, but hasn’t been unproven. When the base of the cloud is in contact with the ground, it is called fog. Fog collectors work best in coastal areas where the water can be harvested as the fog ... Read more »
Ocean Spray Cuts Delivery Emissions 20%
Ocean Spray has implemented two distribution initiatives that combined have led to a 20 percent reduction in transportation CO2 emissions, while achieving comparable cost savings across the transportation network. The first initiative was an intermodal shift from road to rail. The company, rail operator CSX and fruit shipping companies partnered ... Read more »
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Doha, NY Fracking, UK Energy Law
More than 17,000 participants are expected in Doha, Qatar for the United Nations’ 18th Conference of the Parties on climate change, beginning today. The meeting comes a month before the expiration of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Last year’s Durban Platform called for richer countries to continue their ... Read more »
Dr Pepper, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Spend Millions on Water Quality
Dr Pepper Snapple Group has pledged $1 million over the next four years to protect Texas watersheds that provide water for its bottling plants. The money will fund preservation and restoration projects at five of the Nature Conservancy’s preserves — covering about 7,500 acres of land — in the watersheds ... Read more »