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Adriana Trujillo

Shampoo Manufacturers Sued for Use of Toxic Substance Without Label Warning - 0 views

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    CEH filed lawsuits against four personal care product manufacturers after it found evidence of a toxic substance, cocamide Diethanolamine (cocamide DEA) in their shampoos, soaps and other personal care products. The nonprofit firm also sent letters to approximately 100 firms whose products also tested positive.
Adriana Trujillo

Tool Helps Manufacturers Use Safer Chemicals · Environmental Management & Sus... - 1 views

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    The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute will offer a material health certificate, a tool for manufacturers across industries to avoid chemicals of high concern, shift to safer ones in their products and encourage product and supply chain transparency.
Adriana Trujillo

New LED Lighting at Ford Manufacturing Plants Expected to Save $7M a Year | Sustainable... - 0 views

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    Ford Motor Company has begun installing 25,000 new LED fixtures to replace traditional high-intensity discharge and fluorescent lights, at its manufacturing facilities across the globe. The new fixtures, valued at over $25 million, are expected to reduce Ford's energy use at manufacturing facilities by 56 million kilowatt-hours annually - enough to power more than 6,000 average-sized homes per year.
Adriana Trujillo

Plastic Bag Manufacturers File Second California Bag Ban Ballot Measure · Env... - 0 views

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    Plastic bag manufacturers have filed a second ballot initiative related to the California plastic bag ban.
Adriana Trujillo

EPA Proposes Chemical Safety Rule Changes · Environmental Leader · Environmen... - 0 views

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    "The EPA is proposing changes to its chemical safety rules that will require companies in three industries - paper manufacturing, petroleum and coal products, and chemical manufacturing - to assess whether safer technologies and chemicals are feasible. "
Adriana Trujillo

EWG Verifies 125 Products with 'Best Manufacturing Practices' | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Over 125 cosmetics and personal care products from 14 brands such as Beautycounter, Rejuva MInerals, and MyChelle Dermaceuticals have earned the Environmental Working Group (EWG)'s new verification. The EWG VERIFIED™ program aims to help customers quickly and easily identify products that meet strict ingredient standards and are "produced with the best manufacturing practices."
Adriana Trujillo

Interface confirms 100 per cent renewable-powered factory has come online - 07 Feb 2014... - 0 views

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    Interface announced that its Dutch manufacturing facility now runs on 100% renewable energy, sends zero waste to landfills, and uses almost no water in its manufacturing processes. Interface has pledged eliminate any negative impact it has on the environment by 2020 under its Mission Zero strategy.
Del Birmingham

These Popular Clothing Brands Are Cleaning Up Their Chinese Factories | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    A few basic (and often profitable) changes in a factory's manufacturing process can go a long way in cutting down pollution. That's the takeaway from Clean by Design, a new alliance between NRDC, major clothing brands-including Target, Levi's, Gap, and H&M-and Chinese textile manufacturing experts.
Adriana Trujillo

Waste Fires Cement Kilns, Cuts Costs · Environmental Management & Energy News... - 2 views

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    Toxic toys, contraband cigarettes and old sunglasses are among the waste products being burnt to manufacture cement by Holcim, Bloomberg reports. Holcim - the world's largest cement manufacturer - is increasing its use of waste in place of coal to heat cement kilns as a means of cutting costs. Holcim sites from India to Vietnam are now using waste in this way, the news service reports.
Del Birmingham

Procter & Gamble Reaches 85% Zero Manufacturing Waste To Landfill - 0 views

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    Procter & Gamble has reached zero manufacturing waste to landfill at 85% of their sites globally and describes how they did it in a 2018 Citizenship Report published today. The company started the program a decade ago, and currently aims to achieve 100% by 2020.
Adriana Trujillo

Starbucks Moves Bottled Water Production out of California · Environmental Le... - 1 views

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    Starbucks has announced it will stop sourcing and manufacturing its Ethos Water in California due to the drought.
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    Starbucks has announced it will stop sourcing and manufacturing its Ethos Water in California due to the drought.
Adriana Trujillo

A Balancing Act: Jets, Sustainability And Innovation - 0 views

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    Airplane engine-maker Pratt & Whitney is going green to attract and keep the best workers, says environmental chief Mary Anne Cannon. The company is aiming for 100% recycling of manufacturing waste, is holding its supply chain accountable for its actions and has curbed factory emissions by 28% since 2000. The company performs life-cycle assessments to measure the effects of its products, Cannon says
Del Birmingham

Drug Take-Back Laws Stand, Pave Way for More EPR Laws · Environmental Leader ... - 0 views

  • According to the Product Stewardship Institute, the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the challenge brought by PhRMA, the Generic Pharmaceutical Association, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization will pave the way for more extended producer responsibility laws, which hold manufacturers responsible for the end-of-life management of their products.
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    Drug manufacturers will be required to fund and manage medication disposal programs, following the US Supreme Court's decision to not hear the pharmaceutical industry's case against a drug take-back law in California.
Adriana Trujillo

Mondelez International Smashes Waste Goal, Achieves 57% Reduction · Environme... - 1 views

  • Mondelez International exceeded its goal to reduce manufacturing waste by 15 percent per metric ton of production by 2015, according to the company’s most recent sustainability report. Through 2014, the snacking company achieved a 57 percent reduction — four times the original goal.
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    Mondelez International exceeded its goal to reduce manufacturing waste by 15 percent per metric ton of production by 2015, according to the company's most recent sustainability report. Through 2014, the snacking company achieved a 57 percent reduction - four times the original goal.
Adriana Trujillo

Dow Chemical's Water Woes Signal Trouble | The Texas Tribune - 0 views

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    But this success story has been underscored by a tense struggle over water, which Dow needs to keep production afloat, and which is in short supply in Texas amid the state's debilitating drought and its water users' increasing thirst. When Dow Chemical, one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world, announced a multibillion-dollar expansion on Texas' Gulf Coast last summer, Gov. Rick Perry had yet another example to add to his list of explosive economic growth on Texas soil.
Adriana Trujillo

Restaurants, Manufacturers, Retailers Offer Best Practices in New Guide to Cutting Food... - 0 views

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    The Food Waste Reduction Alliance has released an updated guide. The 2015 Best Practices and Emerging Solutions Guide offers practical steps and examples to help food manufacturers, retailers, and restaurants cut food waste. More than 30 member companies across the food industry contributed insights and case studies, including The Campbell Soup Company and Sodexo. 
Adriana Trujillo

Dunkin' Donuts to Oust Polystyrene Foam Cups by 2020 assuming Manufacturing Can Keep Up - 0 views

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    Dunkin' Donuts plans to begin phasing out polystyrene foam cups beginning this spring, planning to have completely eliminated polystyrene cups from its global supply chain by 2020. While the majority of Dunkin' Donuts' international markets are currently using paper cups, the company will work to replace foam cups with a new, double-walled paper cup throughout its US stores as quickly as manufacturing capabilities can get up to speed. Dunkin' Donuts has been searching for a suitable - and affordable - replacement for polystyrene cups since 2011.
Del Birmingham

Ford prepares for a water-scarce future | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

  • The automotive leader has a strong track record of water use reductions in its manufacturing operations and an aggressive goal to reduce water use even further – by 30 percent per vehicle by 2015. But many at Ford and a number of its stakeholders (including the company’s Ceres stakeholder advisory team) see growing water competition and scarcity as a potential economic game-changer – with big implications for the auto industry.
  • But water is critical to a number of manufacturing steps, including vehicle painting, where large volumes of water are traditionally used to rinse cars, ensuring that not a speck of dust ruins that perfect paint job. Water use also can be high in the automotive supply chain, particularly in making raw materials such as steel and aluminum. Ford also has identified that the energy sources used to power its vehicles (gasoline, electric power or biofuels) play an incredibly important role in determining the water footprint of its vehicles, because of the large amounts of water required for fuel production and power generation.
Del Birmingham

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Adds Materials Web Tool · Environmental Managem... - 0 views

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    Rates materials in apparel an footwear manufacturing for their environmental sustainability.
Adriana Trujillo

Cheap Goods from China Have High Carbon Cost - Scientific American - 0 views

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    Steve Davis is a climate energy scientist at the University of California Irvine. He and his colleagues wanted to see whether outsourcing manufacturing to China--which happens to be good for our wallets--is also good for the planet. Spoiler alert: doesn't look like it.
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