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The Green Purchasing Network, a Japanese environmental network, announced the winners of the 7th Green Purchasing Award, which recognizes outstanding effort in promoting green purchasing.
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The system enables Office Depot to ensure that paper used in its printed marketing materials is 'environmentally preferable' and establishes a new level of transparency in the process of paper procurement.
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Office Depot is offering customers who return eligible used ink and toner cartridges to any of its U.S. stores the choice of a free ream of 35% post-consumer recycled content paper or $2.50 on their next purchase of any ink, toner, or fax product.
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Two Boston-area hotels today were awarded Energy Star labels for superior energy efficiency.
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R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 'Multi-site Chain-of-Custody' certification for all of of its U.S. magazine, catalog, retail insert and directory printing plants.
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Starbucks Coffee Co. has received approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to use recycled content in food packaging, specifically Starbucks hot beverage cups. Following successful testing, Starbucks expects to convert its hot beverage cups to 10% recycled material, an industry first.
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Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Intel have endorsed the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct (EICC) established by Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM last month.
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Japan's Sharp Corporation announced it will begin sales of two types of new lighting systems that integrate solar cells and high-intensity, energy efficient, long-lasting and mercury-free LEDs (light emitting diodes).
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Department of Defense officials issued a new procurement policy last week urging employees and the military to 'buy green.'
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The nonprofit Center for a New American Dream commends Norm Thompson for consuming natural resources wisely and efficiently.
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Giant Eagle, Inc., one of the nation's largest food retailers and food distributors, has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2004 Energy Star Partner of the Year Award for Excellence in Energy Management.
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EPA's Green Supplier Network, thanks in part to Baxter Healthcare, has now expanded its innovative approach to incorporating lean/clean principles into the operations of a group of suppliers common to the health care industry.
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SC Johnson has announced that the company has exceeded its goal to use more environmentally preferable raw materials across all SC Johnson brands, crediting its Greenlist raw material classification system for the improvements.
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Starbucks Coffee Sourcing Guidelines are coming to the end of a two-year pilot; this has proved a surprising success for the coffee company whose brand has become synonymous with cappuccinos and skinny lattes on main streets around the world, as well as the target of activists in the wake of the Seattle protests. By Yasmin Crowther
by Emily Rabin
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Potlatch Corp. has become the first U.S.-headquartered, publicly traded forest products company to certify its forest management practices under the standards of the internationally recognized Forest Stewardship Council.
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Royal Philips Electronics has released the company’s second annual sustainability report, which extends the company’s sustainability principles to Philips’ 50.000 suppliers.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will work with Dell Inc. to recycle or redeploy its computer systems at the end of their lifecycles, Dell announced at the Federal Office Systems Exposition.
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ReCellular Inc., which trades, refurbishes and recycles used cell phones and other electronic devices has added 30,000 drop off recycling locations in the U.S. and expanding into Latin America.
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Office Depot has announced a five-year, $2.2 million strategy to develop the information, standards, and tools needed to advance the company's forest and biodiversity conservation policies.