The American Beverage Association is honoring America Recycles Day by supporting a pilot project called "Recycle on the Go" in Palm Beach County, Florida, to increase the amount of recycled cans and bottles and decrease the amount of ...
Tags: Beverage Industry, Public Space Recycling, Space Recycling
The board of directors of GreenBlue have announced the appointment of Nina Goodrich as executive director of the organization. Goodrich will also continue in her current role as program director for GreenBlue's flagship project, the ...
Rieke Packaging, based in Indiana, has secured the renewal of Environmental Stewardship Program (ESP) from the State of Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM). An ESP member, who is entrusted with various sustainability ...
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Looking to educate children of Summit and Lake Counties about environmental stewardship? Looking for additional funding for those projects? Copper Mountain's Environmental Foundation is currently accepting proposals for projects for the ...
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US cocoa group Blommer Chocolate Company and Singapore-based ingredients firm Olam International have formed a 50-50 joint venture, GrowCocoa. The JV aims to "bolster the cocoa supply chain" and support the sustainable production of ...
Metro Nashville Coca-Cola and Kroger have collaborated for a new green initiative, Recycle & Win, which has been designed to increase recycling rates. For the program's implementation in the Nashville market, Coca-Cola and Kroger have ...
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HJ Heinz Canada is all set to unveil its new eco-friendly ketchup bottle later this month. The bottle is made from up to 30% plant-based material, using Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle packaging. The new packaging is made with a process ...
Tags: ketchup bottle, Eco-Friendly Bottle, PlantBottle packaging
Closure manufacturer in the US, Portola Packaging has announced that the company’s North American facilities have achieved reduction in energy usage by almost 20% over the past two years, and recycled more than 5.5 million lbs of ...
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Source Africa, the biggest textiles and apparel trade event in Africa, has been launched in Cape Town, South Africa. The trade fair, which will take place from 9 – 12 April 2013 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, will ...
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November 29, 2012 EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — November 29, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — When Havertys Furniture (Atlanta, Ga.) evaluated its lighting portfolio across all 122 of its retail locations, the Southeast-region retailer wanted ...
Tags: LED lighting, GE, indoor LED lighting, LED lamp, PAR38 lamps, LEDs
At Armstrong, we are committed to protecting the environment and using natural resources responsibly. Recently the flooring industry took notice of our efforts. At the 4th Annual GreenStep Awards hosted by Floor Covering Weekly (FCW), we ...
Tags: flooring, natural resources, vision house, hardwood floors
ABB, a leading power and automation technology group, has won a prestigious 2012 Banksia Environmental Award in the Clean Technology – Harnessing Opportunities category. The award is in recognition of ABB’s new cost effective ...
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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), Washington, and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) — a global organization established by a group of apparel and footwear brands, retailers, manufacturers, nongovernmental ...
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If the direction lights hovering above the three lanes on the Peace Bridge seem brighter, there's a good reason for it. Crews from the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority have finished installing several hundred LED bulbs in the ...
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BC's LightRecycle Now Includes All Lighting Products British Columbia now has Canada's first comprehensive program to recycle all lighting products at no charge. LightRecycle is a non-profit program to recycle lighting products in ...
Tags: Lighting