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Adriana Trujillo

Mars Agrees with WHO, Promises to List Added Sugars in Nutritional Facts | Sustainable ... - 0 views

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    Mars has supported recommendations that suggest people should limit the consumption of added sugars to no more than 10% of their daily caloric intake. The company also voiced support of a government proposal to include an added sugars declaration in the Nutritional Facts on all applicable food packaging.
Adriana Trujillo

UK Sugar, Carbon Taxes Could Produce £3.6B in Revenue, Reduce Emissions by 19... - 0 views

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    Could the health and environmental benefits of taxes on sugary drinks and carbon-intensive foods outweigh the out-of-pocket costs? New research from Oxford University and the University of Reading suggests that is indeed the case. A study found that a combination of a sugar tax on soft drinks and a food-based carbon tax in the United Kingdom could raise £3.6 billion in revenue, reduce carbon emissions by 19 million tonnes, and increase life expectancy.
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How to Clean Water With Old Coffee Grounds | Innovation | Smithsonian - 0 views

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    The team, at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, is using coffee grounds to clean water, turning the grounds into a foam that can remove heavy metals like mercury. "We actually take a waste and give it a second life," says materials scientist Despina Fragouli. Her team took spent coffee grounds from IIT's cafeteria, dried and ground them to make the particles smaller. They then mixed the grounds with some silicon and sugar. Once hardened, they dipped it in water to melt away the sugar, which leaves behind a foam-like material.
Adriana Trujillo

General Mills: We Get 69% of Top 10 Priority Ingredients from Sustainable Sources - Env... - 0 views

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    General Mills now sources 69% of its top ten priority ingredients from sustainable sources, the company announced this week. The most significant process has been made toward palm oil (100%), fiber packaging (99%) and sugar beets, sugar cane and oats (50% or more). General Mills says it has taken several concrete … Read more »
Adriana Trujillo

Inedible ice cream waste is being used this summer to power UK homes | Veolia UK - 1 views

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    The world's third largest ice cream manufacturer R&R Ice Cream collaborated with Iona Capital and Veolia to convert inedible ice cream waste - the sugar, fat, and protein left behind after cleaning - into biogas that generates power for the UK National Grid. The company uses an anaerobic digestion facility to convert the ice cream waste into biogas.
Adriana Trujillo

Renewable Diesel Acceptable Drop-In Fuel for Ships, Study Finds · Environment... - 0 views

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    Renewable diesel fuel blend made from sugar did not impact ship engine performance or operation, according to a study by the Maritime Administration.
Adriana Trujillo

Year in Review: One Company's Waste Becomes Another's Bioplastic | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    From tomatoes and paper pulp to lignin and sugar beets, it seems like researchers played with just about every fauna they could find in the search for the next great bioplastic feedstock this year.
Del Birmingham

Western Chimpanzee numbers declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter centu... - 0 views

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    Research published in the American Journal of Primatology earlier this month finds that the overall Western Chimpanzee population declined by six percent annually between 1990 and 2014, a total decline of 80.2 percent. The main threats to the Western Chimpanzee are almost all man-made. Habitat loss and fragmentation driven by slash-and-burn agriculture, industrial agriculture (including deforestation for oil palm plantations as well as eucalyptus, rubber, and sugar cane developments), and extractive industries like logging, mining, and oil top the list. In response to the finding that the Western Chimpanzee population has dropped so precipitously in less than three decades, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) elevated the subspecies' status to Critically Endangered on its Red List of Threatened Species.
Adriana Trujillo

Bacardi Aspires to 100% Sustainable Sugarcane Sourcing by 2022 | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Bacardi is planning to source 40% of the sugarcane it uses to brew its rum from sustainable sources by 2017, and 100% by 2022. The company also announced plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and the use of packaging and water
Brett Rohring

How Hasbro, Lego and Mattel stack up as green toy makers | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

  • Millions upon millions of games, dolls, trinkets and other baubles are churned out for the entertainment of children around the world.
  • As the titans that make them start considering their complete environmental footprints, they are making big strides in protecting the planet's natural resources, albeit by disparate approaches.
  • by 2020 Hasbro plans to reduce waste to landfill by 50 percent, energy consumption by 25 percent, GHG emissions by 20 percent and water consumption by 15 percent.
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  • Between 2008 and 2012, the company says, it reduced non-hazardous waste by 40 percent, energy consumption by 19 percent, GHG emissions by 32 percent and water consumption by 31 percent.
  • Hasbro is also working to reduce its packaging material, eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from packaging, increase recycled content and source paper responsibly.
  • This year the company eliminated PVC from new product packaging and says it's on track to nix it from all packaging by the end of this year.
  • It also exceeded its 2011 goal to derive at least 75 percent of paper and board packaging from recycled material or from sources that practice sustainable forest management. By 2015, Hasbro plans to increase that number to 90 percent.
  • it also did away with the plastic bags in which game instructions were wrapped, removing 800,000 pounds of material worldwide from its waste stream.
  • Lego has worked for decades to eliminate PVC as well as phthalates from its toys, all of which no longer contain these substances.
  • Next year the cardboard used in the new boxes will carry FSC certification
  • Over the next few years Lego's parent company, Kirkbi, is investing $547 million to build a wind farm off the coast of Germany.
  • By 2020, the company will contribute to the world at least the same amount of sustainable energy as the company consumes.
  • "Today we recycle about 90 percent of our waste, and with zero waste as our long-term ambition we will continue to make progress on this agenda,
  • in 2010, Mattel's Hot Wheels factory in Malaysia began using local sources and 100 percent compostable residual sugar cane fiber as an alternative packaging material for the plastic insert tray of the Hot Wheels 9- and 10-pack car assortments.
  • Mattel established a sustainability target to improve our packaging material efficiency by 5 percent by 2015.
  • the company has reduced its energy consumption by 33 percent, CO2 emissions by 38 percent, water consumption by 54 percent, volatile organic compound emissions by nearly 70 percent, non-hazardous waste generation by 30 percent and hazardous waste generation by 16 percent.
  • Mattel canceled its contracts with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), who were complicit in rainforest destruction, and instructed its suppliers to avoid wood fiber from controversial sources, including companies 'that are known to be involved in deforestation
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