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The winners of the annual StopWaste Partnership Business Efficiency Awards offer useful examples of how companies large and small are putting their operations under the magnifying glass to cut costs and trim waste.
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In looking for a cradle-to-cradle solution to waste, the head of the sportswear line says that Puma is exploring how to make shoes, t-shirts and bags that are either compostable or recyclable.
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Even after a decade of daily evangelizing about the ease and importance of green meeting practices, we're still struggling to make an impact.
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The group's Sustainable Packaging Coalition is launching a pilot project -- with big-name retail backers -- to develop and test a standardized recycling label for all types of packaging that will make it easier to increase recycling rates.
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Starbucks plugged toward its goal of making all of its cups either recyclable or reusable by 2015 with its third annual cup summit.
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The obesity epidemic in this country is causing any number of serious health and economic problems -- but there may also be serious environmental problems associated with our waist-management failures.
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Last fall, Kimberly-Clark Health Care turned to students at the Rhode Island School of Design for inspiration and ideas about a second life for Kimguard, the most widely used sterilization material on the market.
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Colleges and universities give lessons on how to increase recycling and reduce waste.
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TerraCycle has built a business around taking other companies' trash and turning it into treasure. It's a surprisingly tough sell sometimes, but here's how you make the case that it's not trash, it's wasted brand equity.
by Albe Zakes
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After a year-long review of waste practices in the U.K. the environment agency released a 'light-touch' plan for voluntary recycling initiatives that was poorly received by NGOs.
by James Murray
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Valvoline unveiled its latest product NextGen following years of research into making a recycled product as good as any other product it sells. Now the company has set its sights on developing a comprehensive sustainability strategy and plan it will roll out later this year.
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The effort, launched with big-name companies that include Panasonic, Best Buy, Sony and Toshiba, would triple the amount of e-waste recycled in 2010.
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The outgoing and incoming CEOs of the iconic brand discuss the legacy of sustainability in the food industry, how Millennials are shifting the company's focus, and why they changed the "M'm! M'm! Good!" slogan.
by Heather King
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Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd., the world's third-largest independent Coke bottler, and the largest plastics recycler in Europe are teaming up to build a U.K. facility that's expected to more than double the country's production of high-grade recycled plastic, material suitable for beverage and food packaging.
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Two different groups have recently developed new ways to make fuels -- biodiesel and natural gas -- from waste materials in the beer-brewing process and from water-treatment algaes.
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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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Lorrie Vogel, the head of Nike Considered, talked about the company's closed-loop ethos, why sustainability has to start from within, and how the company turned 13 million plastic bottles into World Cup jerseys.
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Procter & Gamble's Pampers and Kimberly-Clark's Huggies still dominate the diaper biz, but gDiapers has been growing by 50 percent a year (including during the recession), it's making money and the upstart brand has a growing army of fans -- 24,000 on Facebook alone -- who are helping to spread the word.
by Marc Gunther
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There’s a lot to be said for viewing the year just passed through the rear-view window, from runaway oil wells to crashing hybrids to political stalemate over climate change. Still, there’s much to be hopeful about. Here are 10 stories we published that represent significant, promising developments.<o p=''></o>
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by Joel Makower