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Del Birmingham

Keep America Beautiful and Nestlé Waters North America Partner to Clean Up National Parks During Government Shutdown - 0 views

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    As national parks face issues with unmanaged waste during the government shutdown, Keep America Beautiful, the largest community improvement organization in the United States, and Nestlé Waters North America, one of the leading beverage companies in North America, announced today that they are teaming up to help mobilize affiliate organizations and volunteers across the country to clean up these shared public spaces.
Del Birmingham

Nestlé verifies three-quarters of its supply chain as deforestation-free | 2019-04-30 | Candy Industry - 0 views

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    More than three-quarters (77 percent) of Nestlé's agricultural commodities are verified as deforestation-free, the company announced Tuesday.
Del Birmingham

REI Elevates Sustainability Standards to Cover Entire Supply Chain - 0 views

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    REI announced that it would roll out rigorous sustainability standards across its supply chain. The more than 1,000 brands that can be currently found on REI's stores or its web site, insists the co-op, will "make it easier for millions of outdoor enthusiasts to choose more sustainable products."
Del Birmingham

P&G Smashes 2020 Goals, Raises the Bar with 'Ambition 2030' | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    The Procter & Gamble Company today announced it has achieved many of its 2020 environmental sustainability goals, has plans in place to meet the rest and has established new, broad-reaching goals for 2030. With "Ambition 2030," P&G aims to enable and inspire positive impact on the environment and society while creating value for the Company and consumers
Adriana Trujillo

Tesco Starts Phasing Out Hazardous Chemicals from F&F Clothing Line - Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    The British retailer Tesco announced a commitment to immediately start removing hazardous chemicals from the supply chain of its F&F clothing and footwear label. Tesco recently signed onto the Greenpeace Detox Campaign, agreeing to eliminate chemicals such as phthalates, heavy metals, and chlorinated solvents by 2020. The retailer joins 80 other brands and suppliers that have agreed to the campaign since it began in 2011.
Adriana Trujillo

Stella McCartney Fall Campaign Targets Overconsumption, Waste | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Stella McCartney, long an advocate for ethical fashion, has been busy over the last several months trying to drive the industry away from a take-make-waste model; the luxury label recently announced plans to use Parley for the Oceans' recycled plastic yarn and Aquafil's ECONYL® fiber in its line of shoes, accessories and outerwear. In its latest bid to call attention to the cause, the vegetarian brand has shot its entire Autumn/Winter 2017 campaign on a landfill site on the Eastern Coast of Scotland.
Adriana Trujillo

MillerCoors Reduces Water Use by 17%, Battles Risk with These 3 Strategies - Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    MillerCoors used new tools and irrigation initiatives, along with increased brewing efficiencies, that helped the brewing giant reduce its water consumption by 15 billion gallons in 2016, the company announced today. Wet weather also contributed to the 2016 reduction, the company acknowledged. MillerCoors used 16.9% less water compared to 2015 - equivalent to more than 500 million kegs of beer.
Adriana Trujillo

Apple Building Another 100% Renewable-Powered Data Center - Energy Manager Today - 0 views

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    Apple announced plans to build a new $921 million data center in Denmark that runs on 100% renewable energy.
Del Birmingham

China Tells WTO: No More Garbage Imports - 0 views

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    The logistics of how the world copes with its mounting waste were just thrown a wicked curve ball from the Pacific Rim. And the case for embracing a circular economy became stronger. Last week China announced that it would no longer accept many imports of garbage from other countries.
Adriana Trujillo

McDonald's sets goal of 100% sustainable packaging and recycling - 0 views

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    McDonald's announced Tuesday that it has set two ambitious environmental goals that it wants to achieve by 2025. The fast food giant wants to have 100% of its customer packaging come from renewable, recycled, or certified sources and have recycling available in all its restaurants. Currently, 50% of its guest packaging comes from sustainable sources and only 10% of its restaurants are recycling.
Del Birmingham

U.S. Plastics Producers Aim to Recycle or Recover 100% of Plastic Packaging by 2040 | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Three new goals to enhance the circular economy for plastics and reduce packaging waste have been announced by leading U.S. plastic producers including BASF, Dow, DuPont and Braskem. Together as part of the American Chemistry Council (ACC)'s Plastics Division, 15 leading resin manufacturers and an affiliated trade association have strengthened their commitments to capturing, recycling and recovering plastics.
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Nike, H&M and Burberry join forces for sustainable fashion | Reuters - 1 views

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    The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, set up by the record-breaking sailor, announced on Wednesday that the brands were joining its Make Fashion Circular scheme to reduce global waste from fashion by recycling raw materials and products.
Del Birmingham

Costa Rica to ban fossil fuels and become world's first decarbonised society | The Independent - 1 views

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    Costa Rica's new president has announced a plan to ban fossil fuels and become the first fully decarbonised country in the world.
Adriana Trujillo

Heathrow Moves Towards Carbon Neutrality with New Sustainability Strategy | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    London's Heathrow Airport has unveiled a new sustainability leadership strategy designed to make Heathrow a center of excellence in the aviation industry. The strategy announces ambitious goals to reduce the airport's and the industry's environmental impacts while maximizing economic opportunities throughout the UK. Plans include a new R&D incubator, an ambition for growth from a new runway to be carbon neutral and at least halving the number of late-running departures to reduce noise for local communities.
Adriana Trujillo

electric vehicles: India aiming for all-electric car fleet by 2030, petrol and diesel to be tanked - Times of India - 1 views

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    Indian Power minister Piyush Goyal reportedly announced that India is considering a target to transition the country to a 100% electric vehicle fleet by 2030, according to The Times of India.
Adriana Trujillo

IOI Pledges to Clean Up Supply Chain One Year after RSPO Suspension | Sustainable Brands - 1 views

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    A year after being suspended from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and dropped by companies such as Unilever, Mars, Nestlé and Kellogg for clearing peatlands in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Group has announced plans to eliminate deforestation and exploitation throughout its supply chain. In response, Greenpeace has suspended its active campaign to give IOI time to show it is serious about reform.
Adriana Trujillo

Banks like ING and DNB are backing away from pipelines | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    In recent weeks, the large multinational Dutch bank ING and Norwegian bank DNB announced plans to sell off their stakes in loans funding the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The divestments came as activist investors stepped up their calls for banks and other financial institutions to stop financing projects related to fossil fuels development.
Adriana Trujillo

General Mills: We Get 69% of Top 10 Priority Ingredients from Sustainable Sources - Environmental Leader - 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

Equinix Press Release - 1 views

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    Equinix announced plans to install on-site fuel cells, with a total capacity of more than 37MW, at 12 of its data centers across the United States, marking what the company claims is the largest deployment of fuel cells in the colocation data center industry to date. The fuel cells are projected to avoid 660,000 tons of carbon emissions and save 87 billion gallons of water over the course of 15 years.
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