A surge in mining activity and online retail sales in south east Queensland has prompted TNT Express to open a new freight facility in Brisbane’s north. The 5,000 m2 depot features a fully automated parcel sortation system ...
Tags: mining activity, online retail sales, automated parcel, parcels
A striking 14ft high steel scorpion will sit at the entrance to Sheffield Forgemasters built by the company's own apprentices and using recycled materials found on the 64 acre site. Sheffield City Council has granted planning permission ...
Top ten sustainable textile trends, with the potential to influence eco thinking of the future highlighted by WGSN Materials team: 1. Compress fibres to produce new eco materials 2. Luxury unwaste redefines recycling 3. Changing the ...
Tags: Textile Trends, Sustainable Textile Trends, eco materials
Metals have been an integral part of our daily activity from time immemorial.They are available in a wide range of forms and have acquired great significance in both our personal and professional lives.Since the beginning of ...
Green office supplies (my Hub page on the topic) are the topic of the day on this Earth Day. I’m not a huge fan of multi-billion dollar government-run programs to subsidize things or thrust such burdens on us as consumers or business ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Earth Friendly Office, Green Office Supplies
Trimble has introduced its new cBin solution which consists of a remote sensor in a container and sends fill level and asset status information through wireless communications to a web portal that can be accessed to manage container ...
What is the interplay between sustainability and industry's ever-greater environmental responsibility?What steps should firms take in response to the new geo-economic realignment of the planet?What strategic choices must be adopted given ...
Tags: man-made fibres, sustainability, sales, competitiveness
US-based packaging products firm Zuhlke & Associates has said fresh produce packaging is seeing more demand for recyclable packaging. According to the firm, 99% of all materials are manufactured from cleaned recycled materials, and the ...
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The city of San Francisco is seen as the greenest city in the US and is keen on adopting measures to treat packaging waste as resources, which include plastic bags and glass bottles. IBM Research said because of the high value of recycled ...
Tags: Garbage, packaging waste, plastic bags, glass bottles
Bharti Walmart, a business-to-business (B2B) joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Walmart Stores, is celebrating the Earth Month from 22 April 2012 to 22 May 2012, with green packaging of its products. As part of the program, the ...
Tags: Green Packaging, recycled materials, environment-friendly
High Density Polyethylene bottles supplier Nampak Plastics UK has announced the availability of its Infini bottle to the retailers helping them to reach their sustainability targets. The Nampak-led initiative, ultra-lightweight plastic ...
Thermoformed packaging products designer and manufacturer in the US, Placon has announced the launch of its new divided containers, which contain up to 100%, food-safe, post-consumer recycled materials. According to the company, the Fresh ...
Tags: Recyclable Food Containers, Food Containers, divided containers
Global packaging company Sonoco's unit Sonoco Recycling has invested $4m in its materials recovery facility (MRF) in Columbia, South Carolina, US allowing it to accept additional types of materials. The facility will enable residents in ...
Tags: recycling, invested, MRF, materials, household materials, composite cans
UK-based supplier to the foodservice sector Brakes Group has launched a range of compostable food packaging and catering disposables including salad and take-away boxes, soup and deli containers, chip trays, hot drinks cups and lids and ...
Tags: Food Packaging Disposables, catering disposables, catering waste
Young companies and emerging product, furniture and textile designers will be presenting inspiring ideas and innovative textile developments at next year’s Heimtextil (9 to 12 January 2013) fair in Frankfurt, Germany. With a ...
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