Vermont Natural Coatings' PolyWhey has been named a 'Top Green Finish For Hardwood Floors' by WoodRight Forest Products. WoodRight is owned and operated by sustainable forestry and consumer advocacy groups in Virginia and Ohio. WoodRight ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Floors
Armstrong World Industries named The Kroger Co. as its 2013 Flooring Recycler of the Year. The Armstrong award recognizes organizations that made significant environmental contributions by recycling VCT materials during demolition ...
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US-based Red Hare Brewing has selected Novelis' evercan recyclable aluminum sheet for its craft beer packaging. The cans made of evercan aluminum sheet would reduce the company's environmental footprint, while preserving the freshness ...
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H&M publishes its twelfth Conscious Actions Sustainability Report. Some of the highlights during 2013 are the launch of H&M´s roadmap for fair living wages, the first closed loop collection made with recycled material from collected ...
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In March, continental buyers of recycled containerboard made some unexpected headway in offsetting €10/tonne of the €20/tonne increase that took effect last Autumn. That increase was so small that there was virtually no attempt to ...
The $60m (£35.7m) modernisation project enables the production of lighter-weight board grades, along with greater finishing flexibility. Marek Krzykowski, mill general director at Kwidzyn, said: "Operations are fully restored and ...
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US-based beer producer Saint Archer Brewing has launched its four core beers in 12oz cans designed by Ball. According to Ball, the beers brands including Blonde Ale, White Ale, Pale Ale and IPA will be available in recyclable aluminium ...
Recycled fibre and yarn will come into focus at ITMA 2015 with their own sub-chapter – a development that recognises the increasing role of recycled raw materials in textiles of all kinds. The recycling of synthetic polymers has ...
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H&M is committed to ensure that its fabrics are not coming from the worlds remaining ancient and endangered forest. H&M to together with the not-for-profit environmental organization Canopy by June 2014 put a plan in place to avoid ...
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The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), representing over 90% of North America's post-consumer plastic recycling capacity, is encouraging municipal recycling programs to promote 'the Caps On Bottles' to take advantage of ...
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FKuR has been on a growth spurt. The company's flagship bioplastic, Bio-Flex, is a blend of blends of co-polyester and PLA with a very high content of natural resource material, and comes in thirteen grades. Each Bio-Flex packaging film ...
An open can is not portable. A resealable one is. Actega and Dayton Systems Group have created a pretty significant milestone in the history of the drink can. The patented two-piece can and dome design is engineered to attach to standard ...
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Latest industry data – published today ahead of the European Commission 2012 figures expected at the end of 2014 – confirm average glass recycling rates in the European Union have passed the 70% mark. This means that over 25 ...
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Mohawk is one of three finalists for the Clean Tech Innovation Award in the Metro Atlanta Chamber's E3 Environmental Awards for Atlanta area businesses. The E3 Awards highlight the companies, organizations and individuals working to ...
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(Left to right) Michael Markus, WateReuse California president; Erik Johnson, divisional technical manager, Tuftex; Bill Woyshner, divisional environmental health and safety manager, Tuftex; and Paul Klein, WateReuse California past ...
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