The Xerox Corporation has announced that its efforts to design environmentally friendly products and manufacturing processes over the past ten years have resulted in more than $2 billion of costs saved or avoided, and the equivalent of 1.8 million printers and copiers reused or recycled.
DuPont and EarthShell Corporation have announced a strategic alliance aimed at developing environmentally preferable packaging for the $1 billion global market for food-service packaging.
Cargill Dow LLC has announced the grand opening of the world’s first global-scale manufacturing facility capable of making commercial-grade plastic resins from annually renewable resources such as ordinary field corn.
Manufacturers of electrical or electronic equipment Europe would be individually responsible for financing “take-back” schemes for discarded electrical and electronic equipment, under the latest EU Environment Committee version of the draft European directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment .
Cashing in on the continent's obsession, a growing number of companies like Yokohama Metals are mining used cellphones for the platinum, silver, and even gold embedded in the guts of phones.
Small to medium-sized enterprises have zero knowledge or understanding of the impact of two forthcoming European directives designed to reduce the impact of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) by forcing producers to take responsibility, say organizations engaged in educating British industry. However, help is now at hand, through a three-year program that has investigated what companies can do.
The steel industry has unveiled a conceptual design for steel-intensive compact and mid-size cars that it says would make cars more efficient to produce and drive.
In what’s being billed as a boon for the health care industry, a Dutch database just translated into English offers environmentally preferable alternatives for nearly all uses of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics.
In what’s being billed as a consumer products packaging first, natural care products manufacturer Tom’s of Maine has introduced a recyclable plastic deodorant stick.
Researchers have developed a novel membrane that can reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of filtration, a critical process in industries ranging from foods and pharmaceuticals to petrochemicals and paint.