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JLL's smart building management

Why Smart Building Technology Is a ‘No-Brainer’

Pressure to manage costs, risks and energy consumption is pushing commercial building owners and investors to explore how smart building technologies can help a company’s triple bottom line — people, planet, profits — according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s latest report. The Changing Face of Smart Buildings: The Op-Ex Advantage, says ... Read more »
Microbeads

Microplastics Invade Great Lakes

Microplastics — likely from facial scrubs and other personal care products — are polluting the Great Lakes, according to scientific research published by the 5 Gyres Institute. The nonprofit say this is the same evidence it presented to Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oreal, The Body Shop, Colgate-Palmolive and ... Read more »
GEMI member companies

GEMI Develops Sustainable Supply Chain Tool

The Global Environmental Management Initiative is developing a tool focused on supply chain sustainability and the procurement decision-making process. The free, interactive online tool is intended to help companies prioritize supply chain processes and identify “hotspot” processes as well as opportunities for improvement, according to the green business alliance whose ... Read more »
BPA-free baby bottles

California to Manufacturers: Replace Toxic Chemicals in Products

California regulators yesterday published a list of toxic chemicals found in hundreds of consumer products and will ask manufacturers to replace these chemicals with safer alternatives. State officials say this is the first step in implementing the Safer Consumer Products initiative, a program for identifying and reformulating products that pose ... Read more »
General Mills brands

General Mills’ Shareholders Vote on Post-Consumer Waste Strategies

General Mills’ investors will ask the company to take responsibility for recycling its post-consumer packaging waste at the firm’s annual meeting Sept. 24. At the company meeting in Minneapolis, shareholders will vote on a resolution asking General Mills to assess post-consumer waste strategies, including a policy that shifts responsibility for packaging ... Read more »

P&G Achieves 10% Energy Cost Savings

Procter & Gamble is participating in a new smart building technology program with first-year average energy cost savings of 10 percent, using Jones Lang LaSalle’s (JLL) IntelliCommand smart building management technology in a test group of laboratories, offices and manufacturing facilities. P&G’s initial investment in the technology was returned within the ... Read more »
ACI GHG emissions

Cleaning Product Industry Cuts GHGs 12% in One Year

Dow Chemical, Ecolab, SC Johnson, Seventh Generation and other American Cleaning Institute member companies reduced their greenhouse gas emissions 12 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the ACI’s 2013 Sustainability Report. The cleaning product industry’s second sustainability report shows overall decreases by member companies in four environmental metric data ... Read more »
P&G

P&G’s For-Hire Trucks Switch to Natural Gas

Procter & Gamble will work with eight transportation carriers to convert up to 20 percent of its North America truck load shipments to natural gas vehicles within two years beginning in July. The company expects this initiative will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 5,000 metric tons. The initial phase ... Read more »

Automation Improves Efficiency, Cuts Waste

Process improvement and operational efficiency lead to waste reduction — which is the crux of sustainability, a SustainablePlant article says. Automation is key to improving performance speed, which is also a major driver in improving operational efficiency, writes author Jordan Berkley, director of product management at manufacturing software provider Apriso. ... Read more »


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