The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive Series-E propulsion system to power four New Flyer Xcelsior 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses. The system ...
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Consumer goods giants Procter & Gamble (P&G) has expanded its sustainability goals to conserve resources, protect environment and improve social conditions. As a part of its efforts towards sustaining environment, it will also try to ...
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By sharing a pool of kegs rather than owning their own, over 200 leading craft brewers helped reduce their collective carbon footprint by over 3 million kg of CO2e in 2013. These findings, based on a study by John Heckman, Ph.D with PE ...
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Canada-based food packaging company CKF will be producing its Earthcycle line of agricultural trays at its Hantsport, Nova Scotia facility. The move follows CKF's acquisition of Earthcycle Packaging in May 2013. The first ...
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MADE-BY has launched its latest tool the ‘MADE-BY Wet Processing Benchmark’, which it said, supports brands in understanding and reducing the environmental impact of their supply chains. The MADE-BY Wet Processing Benchmark ...
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The international clothing brand Esprit has unveiled its first-ever recycled Autumn/Winter apparel collection with the R Cert verification tag from the Hong Kong based environmental sustainability promoting NGO Redress’. Designed by ...
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Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company, the industry’s leading manufacturer of refrigerated trailers, dry freight vans, and flatbed trailers, is pleased to announce its largest single trailer order purchased by Prime. Founded in 1970 ...
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Switzerland-based OEKO-TEX has introduced a new certificate for textiles– ‘Made in Green by OEKO-TEX’, which proves that the textiles are safe in terms of human ecology and are additionally produced in a sustainable and ...
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Volvo Car Group and Stora Enso have come together to reduce carbon emissions at Volvo's plant in Belgium by more than 40%. Volvo's plant is located close to Stora Enso's plant in Langerbrugge in Belgium and the company is planning to ...
The environmental sustainability promoting NGO, Redress, has recently launched the R Cert recycled textile clothing standard, a verification standard that aims to educate consumers about the recycling process and the environmental savings ...
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The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced that Dow Chemical Company and Preferred Sands' innovation, TERAFORCE Technology, won the 2014 Polyurethane Innovation Award. The winner, ...
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In the 21st century, society is increasingly aware of the environmental and social performance of supply chains and consumers. Twenty-two metals and mining companies and 32 national and regional mining associations and global commodity ...
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The scheme, which currently operates within the M25, provides a cost-efficient collection and recycling service to help paper cup manufacturers and organisations operating within the supply chain reduce their operating costs and improve ...
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The declaration is being heralded as an unprecedented international, multi-sector commitment to safeguard the world’s forests and to help tackle climate change. All signatories of the Declaration have committed to a vision of ...
Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza, the nation's leading build-your-own pizza chain, today announced that it will soon be opening its first North Carolina location, near Raleigh-Durham The fast-casual concept, known for its chef-driven menu and ...
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