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Nestlé is investing nearly $350 million over the next decade to expand its reach into sustainable coffee farming, make its factories more efficient and reduce its packaging. Beyond...
Dell has reduced its packaging by 8.7 million pounds in the past year, neared its goal to add more recycled content and is well over halfway to making the majority of its packaging recyclable in...
While helping the outdoor industry develop a green rating system for products, the company has announced plans to expand its own Green Index to cover its entire footwear line by the end of 2012....
Recyclable and recycled content are the most important environmental attributes consumers look for in beverage packaging, and many have changed what types of packaging they buy based on...
Procter & Gamble is bringing sugarcane to shampoo and makeup with new packaging that will be on shelves next year....
Recycling glass used to be challenge in Kansas City, but a non-profit, brewery and insulation maker have turned that around with Ripple Glass, a company that has its sights set on doubling...
A packaging material made of mushroom roots and agricultural waste is lowering its energy footprint further with new sterilizing technology....
While some companies and supermarkets have been switching drinks to plastic bottles, hoping to cut emissions with lighter weight packaging, one retailer in Germany is swapping plastic bottles for...
The Global Packaging Project has released indicators and metrics for measuring packaging sustainability, hoping that they are adopted worldwide to improve discussions on packaging....
This report presents a common framework and measurement system for making decisions about packaging and sustainability....
A new rule from the Federal Trade Commission aims to make it easier for consumers to compare types of bulbs by making lumens, not watts, the most prominent figure on packaging....
We've seen no shortage of packaging improvements by companies over the past decade, but these 10 packages and concepts represent some of the most innovative, far-reaching and promising efforts we'...
Dr Pepper Snapple Group released its first corporate social responsibility report since becoming a public company in 2008, setting energy, carbon dioxide, water, recycling and packaging...
Wine companies and retailers have been switching away from glass bottles in order to lighten the environmental footprint of their packaging, but in doing so they are shortening the lives of some...
Green beans, peas, soup, even food labeled "healthy" or "organic" are all some of the canned foods found to be contaminated with bisphenol A (BPA) in a report released today by...
This study shows that eating common canned foods is exposing consumers to levels of bisphenol A (BPA) equal to levels shown to cause health problems in laboratory animals....
Lightweighting will continue to be the main strategy packaging suppliers and buyers use to lower the impacts of their packaging, and companies are mainly making such changes to cut costs,...
Puma's new shoe packaging replaces the shoebox with a bag, cutting cardboard use by 65 percent along with reducing water, energy and fuel use.
...Walmart is stocking 60 TerraCycle products made from upcycled packaging and waste during the month of April.
...U.K. supermarket Waitrose is switching from plastic bags back to plastic bottles for its milk at the same time Sainsbury's is rolling out bagged milk at all its stores....
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