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With just three years available to squeeze lead, mercury, cadmium and other toxic materials from their products, manufacturers like Varian Medical Systems are scrambling to ensure compliance with the new rules.
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Apple released its 2012 supplier progress report Friday, the same day Apple made public its leading supplier list and joined the Fair Labor Association, effective immediately.
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Nearly a dozen companies, including the likes of IBM, The Coca-Cola Company, CH2M Hill, Johnson & Johnson and General Motors, have partnered with the World Environment Council to launch the Innovations in Environmental Sustainability Council.
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The final report in GreenBlue's Closing the Loop project scours the globe in search of best practices for maximizing the recovery of used packaging.
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The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) has introduced a set of new performance metrics to help wineries and grape growers measure and communicate their environmental impacts.
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Sourcemap, the crowdsourced archive of supply chain information, is readying for a big 2012 with new product and service offerings geared toward large firms with complex supply chains.
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Hasbro's new paper packaging policy follows commitments from Mattel and Lego, months after Greenpeace assailed the toymakers for their ties to a controversial supplier.
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Krogers, Target and Sodexo offer new goals or updates of their sustainable seafood programs.
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The telecom company plans to reduce its entire carbon footprint by 20 percent by 2017 as part of its participation in the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Climate Savers program, and will include a special focus on Scope 3 emissions.
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Mattel said it will boost recycled content in its paper packaging, avoid virgin fiber from controversial sources and increase the use of fiber that is third-party certified.
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For years, companies have clamored for internationally recognized methodologies to measure the greenhouse gas emissions from products and across corporate value chains.
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Pressure for suppliers to produce low carbon products and reduce their own emissions will grow in the coming years, driven in part by shareholder pressure.
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Google discloses carbon footprint for the first time, Starbucks holds third cup summit today, and more.
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The San Francisco-based firm unveiled a pair of products today that help companies quickly size up their top suppliers or purchased materials for between $4,000 and $5,000.
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Climate Earth and Summit Energy are joining forces for a partnership that marries their strengths and brings together their specializations in energy management and supply chain carbon footprinting.
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Marriott, InterfaceFlor, PE Five Winds, Valley Forge Fabrics and other firms have launched the Hospitality Sustainable Purchasing Consortium to improve the sustainability performance of the hospitality supply chain.
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The company set several new sustainability goals today, including spending more with suppliers that track emissions and achieving $40 million in energy savings each year.
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When document management company Standard Register was asked by its customer, Bank of America, to respond to the Carbon Disclosure Project, the company received a rare surprise: It found out its CSR program was robust and boosting the bottom line.
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Kraft plans to manufacture its famous foods using less water, energy and packaging, the company announced last week. Its European coffee brands have also committed to 100 percent sustainably sourced coffee by 2015.
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A supply chain carbon footprint analysis revealed that manufacturing is Sprint Nextel's largest hotspot. Now the company will engage these suppliers to manage their emissions -- before asking them to have their own suppliers do the same.
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BT now expects its roughly 6,000 contracted suppliers to have a climate change policy in place, actively measure and report their emissions, and set challenging targets to reduce emissions, while also reporting on their progress.
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The company revealed it would stop selling a dozen at-risk species in its wholesale club stores, while also committing to buying canned tuna and farmed species that meet emerging sustainability standards.
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More than 50 jewelers, including Tiffany & Co., Zale Corp., and Jostens, have now signed on to a campaign launched in 2008 to boycott gold from a controversial mining project in Alaska.
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On the first day of the international climate change negotiations in Mexico, some of the world's largest consumer goods companies threw their collective weight behind efforts to tackle deforestation and to phase out potent greenhouse gases used in refrigeration.
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The upgraded second version of Earthster 2 -- first put to use to track the eco-impacts of Walmart's house brands -- will be pilot tested by 10 companies, then released for free next year.