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Sponsored: The roadmap for packaging manufacturers and brand owners seeking to incorporate recycled fiber into products starts with organizational leadership.
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Sponsored: People expect to see more real sustainability options from businesses. Recycled fiber is one of them
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Despite opposition, CS found a healthy market demanding safer and transparent products.
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Government and electronics companies have come together to support responsible e-waste recycling and energy efficient product design.
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P&G's supplier environmental scorecard will now affect how the company rates suppliers, with rewards going to those that perform well and bring in innovative ideas.
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Sustainability is sparking creative thinking in different methods of owning, leasing, renting and selling back products.
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by Eric Lowitt
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In a move affecting more than $1 billion in goods each year, Kaiser Permanente is now requiring its suppliers to provide environmental data on all medical equipment and products purchased by the largest managed care organization in the U.S.
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Office Depot will give product rebates to companies that eliminate small orders and receive less-frequent orders. Staples has named the winners of its first contest for greener product ideas.<br />
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With the launch of Walmart's sustainability scorecard and a growing interest in the retail world for greener products, suppliers and product makers need to know how to anticipate and respond to retailers' sustainability demands.<br />
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As we view the whatever-it's-called decade in the rearview mirror, it's tempting to assess what's transpired since the good old days of Y2K to see how far we've come — and how far we haven't.
by Joel Makower
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In a new scorecard released by the World Wildlife Fund, only one-sixth of companies surveyed show progress toward goals of ending the environmental and ecosystem impacts of conventional palm oil harvesting.
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The ambitious executive order signed by President Obama on Monday not only requires all departments of the federal government to set hard emissions-reductions targets, it will also have a huge impact on adoption of specific green building and green IT practices.
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A new report from ChemSec and Clean Production Action highlights the innovations driven by electronics manufacturers that have removed toxics like bromine and chlorine from high-tech gadgets.
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From food recalls to product lifecycle analysis to looming regulation, attendees of the Food Industry Sustainability Summit this week got a top-level look at the obstacles that environmental issues that the industry is facing.
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The co-directors of Walmart's Sustainability Consortium, one key plank of the company's larger Sustainability Index, explain how the group will work -- and what companies get for the six-figure price of admission.
by Joel Makower
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The Green Electronics council, the administrators of the three-year-old electronics certification program EPEAT, are expanding the certification to cover products in 40 countries around the world.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed a new label to identify products made with renewable plant, animal, marine or forestry materials. The proposal is an outgrowth of the government's BioPreferred purchasing program.
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The global market for organic cotton hit $3.2 billion in 2008, according to a new report from Organic Exchange, but the rapid growth of supply could lead to problems.
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The two major retailers are adding organic jeans to their private label clothing brands after testing sales of the jeans last year.
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A state committee has approved tentative green purchasing specifications for office printers, refrigerators, motor oil, traffic cones and 14 other products.
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Proposals to legislate incentives for green consumerism were introduced this week on international and local fronts with measures before the European Commission and New Jersey lawmakers.
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The Waste & Resource Action Program is offering a free template for Site Waste Management Plans, which will soon be mandatory for construction, as well as best practices for cutting waste.
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The Green Grid has unveiled strategies to help data center managers assess energy use, while at the same time gaining a few new members to help drive efficiency in the IT sector.
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The group announced Tuesday that it had met three key research goals that will help the consortium along its quest to make IT more energy efficient.
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A growing majority of corporate decision makers will consider green credentials when selecting future outsourcing companies, a recent study suggests.