US-based A&R Box and Packaging has joined forces with Greenpeace USA to offer a new line of eco-friendly products from Oasis Brands. The products include LoCor rolls, which are used in making toilet paper that provide 250-500 more sheets ...
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Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today by the UN ...
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A global campaign designed to help retailers and consumers cut down on food waste has been launched by the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation and civil society partners. The 'Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Footprint' campaign, ...
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Sun Chemical released its 2012 Sustainability Report, which showcases Sun Chemical’s leadership in eco-efficiency through established data-driven metrics, as well as examples of how raw material suppliers are contributing to the ...
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e2v sensor returns high-res satellite images 08 Oct 2012 a NAOMIa camera on board SPOT-6 satellite launched last month is based around a high-performance CCD chip. NAOMI camera SPOT-6,the new Earth observation satellite launched in ...
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Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) has received the SVLK timber legality certification on its ninth and final mill The paper producer claims that this is significant for APP as it is the first Indonesian business to achieve fully SVLK ...
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US toy manufacturer Mattel has announced the development of a sustainable procurement policy for all of its product lines, to avoid using packaging that contributes to deforestation. Mattel said the policy will include requirements for ...
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First, it was in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Starting from the late 1990s, many Uganda dealers have raided the rich forests of that volatile eastern part of that country and cut down trees in a smuggling campaign that ...
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A Florida-based research company claims to have solved the question of deforestation by “creating” wood through combining plant cuttings and a special agent responsible for forming shells in nature. Blue Word Crete, which ...
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International printing and paper lobby group Two Sides has accused Toshiba of 'greenwashing' following the company's announcement in the US to declare October 23, 2012, as 'National No-Print Day'. On this day Toshiba proposes to "raise ...
A swathe of results releases this week highlighted the ongoing difficulties of operating in the current economic climate. Supervalu announced that it is cutting 2,500 jobs from its Albertsons chain and McCain said that it is quitting pizza ...
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When trees are felled to create solid wood products - such as lumber for housing - the wood retains most of its locked-up carbon, say scientists who suggest that previous climate models for carbon emissions from deforestation need revision. ...
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Ghana is currently considering importing logs from Cameroon after losing its forest cover, which stood at 8.2 million hectares a little over a century ago. Ghana’s primary rainforest has reduced by 90 percent over the past few years, ...
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With only 13 per cent of the world’s surfaces covered with forests and growing concerns over deforestation and illegal logging, combined with the spectre of global warming, supply is severely restricted. One of the wood types most ...
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Ghanaian local communities would soon be producing lumber to shore up the volume of legal lumber supply for the domestic market. This would be achieved through the implementation of a project by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana, that ...
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