Articles Tagged with ''sustainable practices''

Students from Fremont Elementary School in Riverside, CA, will celebrate America Recycles Day on Nov. 12 by touring CarbonLITE Recycling to see firsthand how plastic bottles are kept out of the waste stream.

Novelis announces progress in its commitment toward reducing its carbon footprint and delivering on key measures of sustainable business performance.

The total volume of postconsumer PET bottles collected was the highest reported to date at 1.718 billion pounds, as were both the total amount of RPET produced by U.S. reclaimers, 930 million pounds, and the amount used across major end-use domestic market segments at 1.3 billion pounds.

Kent Elastomer Products’ has been honored as a Summit of Sustainability award winner for 2013.

Mayor encourages Milwaukeeans to think beyond the bag and recycle wraps

As the world’s population continues to grow, a staggering 30% of the world’s food – equivalent to 1.3 billion tons - goes to waste each year.

To celebrate more than 200 million drink pouches kept out of landfills and almost $4 million donated to schools and charities, Capri Sun is now vastly increasing the prizes and benefits of recycling through the Drink Pouch Brigade.

In a continued effort to generate and test solutions to the recycling stream issues surrounding full-wrap labels on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, during its August 2013 meeting, the consortium toured a recycling facility and reviewed test results from a trial run using delabeling equipment.

PaperWorks Industries, Inc. announces the release of its second sustainability report, When We Come Together, It Works.

McDonald’s Corporation, the world’s largest fast food franchise, will replace polystyrene foam hot beverage cups with paper-based cups at all its 14,000 U.S. restaurants.