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The big-box retailer has adopted a strategy of helping its customers buy the greenest products possible, but has also quietly and steadily become the country's largest recycler of discarded electronics.
by Marc Gunther
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(Episode 99): Scott Vitters, the Coca-Cola Company's global head of sustainable packaging, takes the wraps off the company's new PlantBottle, a recyclable PET plastic container made partially from plants.
by Marc Gunther
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The Coca-Cola Company's vision of developing a 100 percent renewably sourced, carbon-neutral container has led to its design of the PlantBottle, a recyclable PET vessel that's 30 percent sourced from Brazilian sugar cane and molasses.
by Marc Gunther
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The manufacturer of recycled-glass surfaces announced during Greenbuild 2009 that it had published an Environmental Product Declaration, allowing customers to verify the reduced impacts of its product line.
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Nike will debut a new collection of athletic footwear Saturday made with environmentally preferred materials. A portion of revenue from the N7 line will support Native American youth sports through the N7 Fund.
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One year after setting a goal to cut corporate emissions by 8 percent before 2013, Diversey CEO today announced the company had already surpassed that target, and upped the goal to a 25 percent reduction in the same time frame.
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The Green Building Market and Impact Report, released this morning by GreenerBuildings.com, measures the beneficial impacts that LEED-certified buildings have on energy, water, worker productivity and more, and charts the growth of the green marketplace in the coming years.
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Cadbury will abandon its customary round metal tins in favor of square, recyclable cardboard boxes for its Roses and Heroes chocolate lines, while Sprint's new recyclable casing for its wireless accessories will save the company about $2.1 million a year.
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A study by researchers at Virginia Tech's Pamplkn College of Business finds that even individuals who are resource-efficient at home are much more wasteful when on the road, and stronger education programs are needed to bridge this gap.
by Sookhan So
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Between fiscal years 2007 and 2009, P&G reduced its waste disposal by 30 percent, energy use by 11 percent, greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent, and water consumption by 13 percent, according to its latest sustainability report titled, "Designed to Matter."
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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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A management consulting firm released a new report outlining the steps any company can take to get on the path toward environmental sustainability. How many of these has your firm already accomplished?
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Although the notoriously secretive tech company's first-ever disclosure of the lifecycle impacts of its products has a long way to go toward being truly comprehensive, Apple's latest environmental reports are a sign of progress from the electronics industry.
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A new white paper from IBM and Info-Tech Research finds that companies are taking on a host of green IT practices to achieve both cost-saving and footprint-reduction goals.
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A £24m program to deal with London's commercial and industrial waste has been launched which could see waste companies bid for funding before a 'Dragons' Den'-style panel of experts.
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IBM's new 'Green Retail Store' platform offers retailers in every industry a string of tools -- from point-of-sale systems to blade servers -- aimed at boosting performance, lowering energy use and reducing related emissions.
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Dell Computer yesterday announced a new online product recovery and recycling service aimed at the small business market. The service starts at $25 per computer, and is intended to streamline the buying, set-up and disposal of IT hardware.
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Through its Xerox Foundation, the company has awarded scientists at SUNY's College of Environmental Science and Forestry a renewable grant to speed the creation of inexpensive biodegradable plastics from byproducts of wood-based ethanol production.
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The Nano Risk Framework, jointly developed by DuPont and Environmental Defense, is a new framework intended to help businesses, governments and the public at large evaluate and discuss the potential risks from nano-scale materials.