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Kraft Uses Stakeholder Engagement to Achieve Zero Waste in 36 Plants
Achieving zero waste seems to be the biggest goal with many food companies. Coca-Cola has done it. Kit Kat has done it, and now Kraft is following their footsteps. The company recently announced that it sends no waste to landfills in 36 of its manufacturing plants in 13 countries. Kraft has been steadily working towards building [...]
Dupont Building Innovations Achieves Zero Landfill Status
Dupont Building Innovations, Dupont’s building unit, achieved zero landfill status, the company announced on January 11, 2012. The company managed to send nothing to landfills by reducing, reusing and recycling manufacturing byproducts and waste at its manufacturing sites globally. Through its Drive to Zero landfill program, which began three years ago, the company reduced its [...]
Walmart’s UK Arm Saves $110 million Through CSR Initiatives
British supermarket chain, ASDA has learned a lot from its parent company, Walmart, to boost its sustainability ratings. Their CSR initiatives saw some serious financial pay-offs for the company. The company saved £70 million ($110 million) in 2010 because of its sustainability plans. By 2020, it hopes that its new goals will see a total [...]
General Motors Makes the Business Case for Recycling
General Motors has become a great example of the business benefits for recycling. The company announced that last year, they recycled 92% of all waste generated in their manufacturing plants around the world. This has created a lucrative side business of scrap dealing which has helped keep them afloat during the recession. Sustainable Business writes that [...]
Frito-Lay Opens “Near Net Zero” Plant in Arizona
Frito-Lay reopens what will be a “near net zero” plant. The factory will run of mostly renewable energy, operate significantly with recycled water, and will send almost no waste to the landfill.
Coca Cola UK Marks 50th Anniversary with Zero Waste
Along with making significant reductions in energy and water losses, multinational beverages giant Coca-Cola Enterprises announced that waste from all its UK plants will be zero. Coca-Cola senior management gathered at the company’s Sidcup plant on the border of London and Kent to publicly present and celebrate this milestone in making its operations more sustainable, as well as mark the plant’s 50th anniversary.
Don’t Fear the Compost: A Corporate Zero Waste Implementation Story
By Matt Courtland Zero waste is a movement that aims to eliminate the material that goes into landfills by recycling or composting most items. I recently implemented his next generation recycling and a sustainability initiative as my company’s Green Committee chair. After months of planning, we launched the program in late spring. Now that we have [...]
Kit Kat Factory Achieves Zero Waste Milestone
In the United Kingdom town of York, the Nestle plant that churns out over a billion Kit Kats and 183 million guilt-inducing Aero bar annually has achieved a zero waste milestone four years early.
Albertsons Shows How to Engage the Unengaged
The challenge for a more mainstream supermarket like Albertsons is to bring conservation and recycling topics home to a clientele that may be less inclined to press for changes than a Whole Foods shopper.
Tom Wright Interview Part One: Fundamentals Of Zero Waste
[See part two of Tom Wright's interview here] What is zero waste? Is it really zero? And what are the best practices being developed by companies pursuing a zero waste result? Those are the questions I posed in today’s video interview with Tom Wright, founder of Sustainable Bizness Practices. Tom works with Whole Foods’ responsible [...]
Walmart Diverts 80% of its California Waste From Landfills
Last Thursday Walmart announced that it eliminated over 80% of its waste that otherwise would have ended up in landfills across California. The initiative’s success has sparked Walmart to roll out the program across the United States.
Ties That Matter: Recycled Fashion that Benefits the Homeless
In 2008, three friends decided to pilot a unique idea. Could they start a business that used recycled materials, produced no waste, employed women who needed work, and gave a portion of its proceeds back to the community? They collected 1,500 ties, inspired more than 100 volunteers, and turned the discarded menswear into 1,000 reusable [...]
What a Waste! PepsiCo Cuts Trash-to-Landfill by 88 Percent
Snack food giant PepsiCo has its share of critics for what they see as its role mankind’s obesity issues, particularly in kids. But as yet Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist and Cracker Jack popcorn haven’t risen to the level of tobacco products. So let’s raise a glass of something natural and toast the news that PepsiCo [...]
Video Interview: Mike Hart of Sierra Energy talks about zero waste
By Connie Kwan Is zero waste a pipe dream? This video interview from the recent Going Green 2010 conference with Mike Hart and Laura Carroll of Sierra Energy profiles their technology for converting waste into syngas and liquid slag. Syngas, which comprises of 70% carbon dioxide and 30% hydrogen, can be further processed into fuels [...]
Sunny Delight Goes Zero Waste
Sunny Delight has reached its 2013 recycling goal three years early; several months ago, the firm’s US and Spain manufacturing plants achieved zero waste. Back in 2007, the company estimated that it sent about 1140 tons of waste to landfills. That number fell more than 50% two years later, and now it is a zero waste operation.
Zero Waste: a Zero Sum Game?
Zero waste, which focuses on sending minimal trash to landfills, is becoming a more popular topic among the sustainability crowd. The thinking goes that if we can are not constantly replenishing wasted raw materials, we reduce energy consumption and the pollution that goes along with it.
UK Pushes for Zero Waste: But What About the US?
I was happy to hear that the British government is making serious strides toward zero waste. Indeed, our friends across the pond, specifically the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), have launched a broad-based review of waste policies in order to pursue a zero waste goal. Excellent! But, with hands on my hips, I ask, [...]
Dumpster Diving Day Saves Burt’s Bees $25K Annually
The old adage “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” sure rings true for a North Carolina-based earth friendly natural personal care products company. In 2008, employees from Burt’s Bees took part in Dumpster Day, an event held to educate employees about waste reduction. Trash destined for the landfill was collected for two weeks and [...]
A Greener Olympics: Coke’s Green 2010 Winter Olympic Games Efforts
Numerous organizations and companies have committed to making the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games more environmentally friendly. Whether it is the Olympic medals comprised partly of electronic waste or the Olympia electric ice-resurfacing machine, next to gold, green is the color of choice when it comes to the 2010 Winter Games. Coca-Cola is taking [...]
Looptworks – A New Way to Think About Sustainable Clothing
Take a look at the tag of the clothes you just got for Christmas. Where were they made? Most likely, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, China or Peru. And? And with clothing manufacturing comes the scraps. The overage of a particular color fabric or button. The average factory produces 60,000 pounds of excess material each month–much of it [...]
Walmart Making New Pizza Boxes From Old Cardboard
As part of its effort to reduce, recycle or reuse everything that comes into U.S. operations by 2025, Walmart has several sustainable goals for the future. One goal includes recycling corrugated cardboard waste into private-label take-and-bake pizza boxes. Cardboard waste is gathered and transported to Indiana’s Pratt Industries box plant where it is then recycled [...]
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