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As companies realize the cost and environmental savings from reimagining how they package and ship their products, it seems that the days of wasteful packaging are drawing to a close. From using only the most minimal packaging to bio-based materials replacing plastics and other non-renewable materials, this section explores how business is innovating to get the most efficiency out of their packaging.
U.K. snack company United Biscuits has met some of its environmental goals early, leading it to set even more aggressive targets and shorten its deadlines.
...The second phase of a program for reducing the impact of packaging in the U.K. hopes to lower packaging-related carbon by 10 percent by 2012.
...Julie Corbett, founder of Ecologic Brands, the company that developed a new paper-plastic hybrid milk packaging, speaks about the inspiration behind the package and the tests they've done with...
Why should companies worry about carbon management given the lack of a definitive outcome from climate talks in Copenhagen? Panelists from UPS and Motorola shared their firms’ motivations at...
Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very much. And when they do it, they don’t do it very well. Friend and colleague Joel Makower likes to...
This report looks at how Dulux lowered the carbon, waster and waste impact of its paint thanks to a three-year research project.
...A new line of paint from Dulux, using technology and practices developed over a three-year research period, has half the carbon and water footprint of previous paints, with 40 percent less waste...
We wanted to know what kinds of commitments — formal or informal — people were making in their companies. ...
That's Muhtar Kent, the CEO of Coca-Cola, on the right. On the left is a polar bear. I caught up with Muhtar Kent at COP15, where he was one of a few Fortune 500 CEOs to show up in an effort to...
Coca-Cola Company CEO Muhtar Kent, one of a scant number of Fortune 500 chief execs to make it to COP15, tells GreenBiz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther what compelled the company to have a strong...
Members of the U.K. Food and Drink Federation (FDF) are well on their way to cutting their carbon emissions, waste, packaging and more. The group has laid out the achievements of its member...
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....
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...
Looking at the full impact of any type of product or device -- rather than, say, the cloud of exhaust in front of you on the highway -- opens the door to a whole new understanding of how design...
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled goals to significantly curb its emissions and petroleum use Thursday, a week after President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies to set create action plans to...
Almost four years ago, Wal-Mart announced three major goals that have since driven the company's operations internally and externally. Today, Rand Waddoups, Wal-Mart's senior director of Business...
Adam Lowry, co-founder of Method, speaks with GreenBiz Radio about why green products can't skimp on performance, the indepth work needed to clean up cleaners, and why all the new green products...
Rich Liroff, head of the Investor Environmental Health Network, explains how companies that are designing products with health and the environment in mind reap rewards in reputation, customer...
Marc Gunther talks with Dominique Conseil, the president of cosmetics company Aveda, about the first-ever Cradle to Cradle certification for personal care products, how innovations in packaging...
Joseph Fiksel spoke to GreenBiz Radio about the design principles behind his new book, the companies already putting them to work, and advice for those new to the game. ...
In the just-published State of Green Business 2010 report, we take an extensive look at the data behind the move toward making mainstream businesses greener.
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