Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
Tags: Air Pollution, Coal Use
UK-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an agreement with Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), the Brazilian funding agency for scientific research, to establish a new center of excellence ...
Tags: Sustainable Chemistry, Medicine
There a lot more things required than thought to run the business smoothly. Just as home, in business too you have lots of work to do. The difference is just that in home you handle at personal level and in business you handle it publicly. ...
Tags: Construction Waste, Construction
The guiding concept behind the French scheme is the idea that consumers can make better decisions if they are more informed. This is a concept that will be familiar to the UK packaging industry with front of pack labelling. The ultimate aim ...
The new range contains the Cryovac CT-303E and CT-304E films. A patented innovation incorporates 25 to 50 discrete micro-layers compared to conventional shrink films, which are typically comprised of 1, 3 or 5 layers. Cryovac?CT-303E and ...
Hershey, a US-headquartered chocolate manufacturer, has achieved Zero-Waste-to-Landfill (ZWL) status at two of its facilities in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Robinson, Illinois. With this development, the company now has six plants in the ...
Tags: Hershey Plants, chocolate
Consumers are continually changing the way they view, interact with and discard packaging. Whether you're a manufacturer or a product marketer, you know how important it is to reflect the changing needs of the consumer in your products. ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Consumer Packaging
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, has been selected by the government of the city of Buenos Aires to renew its street lighting system with LED technology. Philips will replace the majority of the 125,000 existing street lights ...
Nucor Corporation announced Thursday consolidated net earnings of $147.6 million, or $0.46 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2013, compared to net earnings of $85.1 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, in the second quarter of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Dow Chemical's Adhesives & Functional Materials business has launched its new peelable heat seal coating technology Adcote HS 40-555 for polyester lidding film applications. According to the company, the new technology has been ...
BASF will introduce new chemistries for the coatings industry at the 2013 Western Coatings Symposium and Show (WCS), October 20-23, in Las Vegas, Nevada. BASF will share solutions for architectural and decorative coatings, as well as for ...
Tags: BASF, Construction, Coating
Current levels of clothing and textile recycling has among the highest levels of impact on reducing greenhouse gasses according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In its report entitled: Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling ...
During the 2nd day of the World Fashion Convention, jeans took center stage. More precisely, the global corporation to make jeans a more sustainable product was explained. Mariette Hoitink of Amsterdam-based House of Denim; Andrew Olah, ...
Supplying electricity to all but four of Georgia's 159 counties, Georgia Power is stepping up their environmental impact by encouraging their 2.4 million consumers to join the ?"Change a Light, Change the World"?pledge. "Small changes, ...
Utility and sustainability intersect at Green Machine Cycles, which opened in late September in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood. With a focus on cargo bikes and accessories for everyday use, owner Ezra Hozinsky also aims to reduce the ...
Tags: Bike, Transportation