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ResearchU.K. snack company United Biscuits has met some of its environmental goals early, leading it to set even more aggressive targets and shorten its deadlines.
...More than 2,800 facilities run by 1,500 companies were certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard last year, increasing the amount of certified facilities by 40 percent.
...The GreenBox pizza box, made of 100 percent recycled content and designed to reduce waste, has been picked up for nationwide distribution by FoodBizSupply.com.
...OfficeMax is offering a new reusable shipping bin program to help businesses that make frequent orders reduce packaging waste.
...Tropicana is shrinking its most popular size of orange juice by five ounces due to freezes in January that put the squeeze on orange crops.
...NewScientist looks at the many ways green chemistry is being used in the pharmaceutical, food and drink, packaging, cosmetics, clothing, electronics, and house and home sectors.
...Three years after its launch in the U.K. and Canada, next month will see the U.S. kickoff of a campaign aimed at educating consumers about buying and using environmentally friendly products from a...
A new development by IBM Research and Stanford University could lead to plastics that can be recycled multiple times - and at lower temperatures - and a new form of biodegradable plastics.
...Procter & Gamble is reformulating its Herbal Essences shampoos to reduce the amount of a carcinogenic chemical in them.
...After a year of testing algae-based oils in soaps and other products, Unilever has decided to expand its research on the petrochemical replacement.
...For the launch of its fully-compostable snack bag, Frito Lay Canada is working with local composting programs to ensure that new SunChips bags are handled properly when disposed.
...Two new sweets come packaged in materials that can be tossed in home gardens or compost piles.
...Swiss Army is switching from all-plastic clamshell packaging for its knives to a mostly-paperboard package with a small plastic bubble.
...AT&T is introducing new accessory packaging that will reduce paper and plastic use while increasing the amount of recyclable material.
...The Oakland-based company has spent the last 10 years finding ways to recycle its waste, use less packaging and testing reusable delivery crates.
...A coalition of environmental and advocacy groups staged a red carpet event this week to spotlight a slew of what they call "bad actors" -- pervasive toxic chemicals that consistently...
The second phase of a program for reducing the impact of packaging in the U.K. hopes to lower packaging-related carbon by 10 percent by 2012.
...Frigid Fluid Co. has developed a recycling program that gives members a free recycling bin for bottles from embalming fluid and other products, along with a discount on purchases.
...By now using cups and lids that are compostable, fast food chain Burgerville has switched all possible packaging to compostable versions.
...IBM has eliminated from its chip manufacturing processes the use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), two compounds found to be bioaccumulative and persistent....
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