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Update Your Approach to Recycled Fiber and Sustainable Packaging Through Leadership

As we quickly approach deadlines for 2025 and 2030 sustainability goals set by businesses around the world, leaders may struggle to balance seemingly competing organizational priorities as they look to meet these goals. In their latest series with GreenBiz, hear directly from top experts at Sustana on how business leaders can influence change in their organizations and products. Read More...

Vanguard Renewables Receives Environmental Leadership Award from NERC

Vanguard Renewables was recognized by NERC for its impact on organics recycling. The company’s Farm Powered® solution captures greenhouse gas emissions from dairy manure and food and beverage waste to create renewable energy via anaerobic digestion. Since 2014, the company has recycled nearly 2 million tons of organic waste, mitigating more than 950 thousand tons of greenhouse gas emissions or the equivalent of planting more than 16 million trees. Read More...

WM and Dow Rollout First Major Residential Plastic Film Recycling Program in the U.S.

Houston, Texas and Midland, Mich. – Today, WM (NYSE: WM) and Dow (NYSE: DOW) announced the launch of a bold new collaboration to improve residential recycling for hard-to-recycle plastic films by allowing consumers in select markets to recycle these materials directly in their curbside recycling. Read More...

AT&T, FEMA & Argonne National Laboratory Collaborate to Launch Climate Risk and Resilience Portal for U.S. Communities

What’s the news? AT&T*, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) today announced the launch of the Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR), which advances access to cutting-edge science for climate projections to help improve America’s preparedness for future climate extremes. Read More...

Greater Boise continuing program to give hard-to-recycle plastic waste a second life

Project led by the Hefty® EnergyBag® program and Dow, in collaboration with ByFusion, offers sustainable ways to reuse hard-to-recycle plastic waste Read More...

Dow launches the world’s first recyclable silicone self-sealing tire solution

Dow (NYSE: DOW) today announced its launch of the world’s first recyclable silicone self-sealing tire solution. Read More...

Kohler and LavaMaeˣ Partnership Delivers 20,000 Showers to Unhoused Population in Communities Across the U.S.

Funding and Education Are Elevating Awareness of the Powerful Impact Clean and Safe Hygiene Has on People Read More...

Avient Technology Helps L’Oréal PCR Packaging to Achieve Color Consistency Worldwide

Avient Corporation today announced a new collaborative success with L’Oréal that will be on display at the upcoming K 2022. L’Oréal recently expressed the need for a tool to help simplify the process of developing color with recycled resin. Avient accepted the challenge, offering its Post-Consumer Recycled (PCR) Color Prediction Service that was able to help L’Oréal achieve global color consistency and speed up launch time for its Redken line of hair care products, which can support those in the plastic packaging industry facing the same issue when using mechanical recycling resin grades. Read More...

Climate Action Awareness Report 2022: Consumers are ready to take climate action and seek more transparency

Report unveils climate action readiness of almost 10,000 consumers in 10 countries Majority expect companies to take responsibility for the climate and are also willing to change their consumption habits Climate-friendly labels are key decision aids for consumption Read More...

Dow commits to accelerating the circular ecosystem by transforming waste and alternative feedstock to deliver 3 million metric tons per year of circular and renewable solutions by 2030

Expands sustainability targets with commitment to Transform the Waste, building on 2025 Sustainability Goals and additional targets announced in 2020 Enabled by recently announced advanced and mechanical recycling partnerships that have increased Dow's capacity to use waste as feedstock Forms new business platform to accelerate scaling of projects around the world to deliver on expanded target Read More...

Caring in Action: Hallmark Unveils Latest Corporate Responsibility Results

The annual report highlights the company's enterprise-wide commitment to caring for people, the planet and communities Read More...

The Country Music Association Partners with Discovery Education to Launch Impactful New STEAM Program for Students And Educators

“Working in Harmony: Every Voice is Instrumental” Creates a Future Pipeline for Youth to Explore Careers Within Country Music Read More...

Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Present Educators and Students Engaging Resources to Support Cybersecurity Awareness Month Observances

Discovery Education and select social impact partners are offering engaging, high-quality digital learning resources to students and teachers to support observances of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Read More...

Point B expands ESG offerings with Sustainable Business Consulting acquisition

Point B, a global consulting firm solving the world’s biggest challenges, today announced its acquisition of Sustainable Business Consulting (SBC), a firm dedicated to providing ESG-focused solutions. Read More...

Thermo Fisher Scientific to Source Half of its U.S. Electricity Needs from Wind Power Purchase with Enel North America

The agreement will deliver renewable energy equal to half of the company’s U.S. electricity consumption Read More...

Dow and public-private cooperation pave the way for a sustainable fashion industry in Ethiopia

The environmental impact of textile and garment manufacturing is a key challenge as the industry sector in Ethiopia booms. Public-private cooperation project supports sustainable chemical and waste management best practices along the textile value chain through education, training and advisory programs. Read More...

Vanguard Renewables Launches Farm Powered Sustainability Program

Food and beverage industry leaders from New England are joining Vanguard Renewables to launch the Farm Powered Sustainability Heroes. Read More...

EPA Names Clorox Safer Choice Partner of the Year for Promotion of Safer Chemistry, Products

The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) was named a 2020 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award winner by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for outstanding achievement in the manufacturing of products that are safer for families, pets, workplaces, communities, and the environment. This is the company's third time receiving this award in the formulation/product manufacturing award category. Read More...

The Glad Products Company and Discovery Education Partner to Support Science Education for 100,000 First Grade Students Across the US Amid Supply Chain Shortages

The Glad Products Company partnered with Discovery Education to support science education for over 100,000 first grade students across the United States. Through this collaboration, The Glad Products Company donated its popular Press’n Seal® product to more than 3,000 educators nationwide, empowering them to bring the hands-on components of Discovery Education’s Mystery Science resources alive for tens of thousands of students nationwide. Read More...

New IBM LinuxONE Servers Help Reduce Energy Consumption as Clients Increasingly Make Sustainability a Business Priority

Next generation LinuxONE servers extend IBM’s capabilities to help clients across industries, including Citibank, reach sustainability targets Read More...

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