Tag: Green Packaging

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  10 Fairtrade, Organic, and Vegan Sources For Easter Chocolate

  Buying ethically produced chocolate bunnies, bars, and eggs for Easter is a lot more difficult than you'd think. Choose from these companies for a guilt-free Easter basket.

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  Sprint Promises "Improved Repairability," But Green Standards Still Fall Short

  Sprint recently announced a new set of criteria for their environmental scorecard, used to evaluate phones they sell. "Improved repairability" is on the list, in addition to green packaging requirements.

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  New Packaging Tells You How to Reuse It Creatively

  Creative crafters can come up with all sorts of beautiful and innovative ways to

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  Walmart Brazil Rethinks Products From End to End

  Walmart's environmental sustainability goals aren't just limited to our operations in the United States; they

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  Make the 2012 Olympics Plastic Bag Free

  The goal of London's 2012 Olympics is to be the most sustainable Games ever. But the organizers are a bit conflicted. For example, the world's largest MacDonald's will be opening just next to the site. It will be the size of 3

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  Replacing Boxes With Bags, Office Depot Tries to Save 20,000 Trees

  Office Depot says it expects to save 3.5 million pounds of wood-based resources by offering to deliver orders in paper bags instead of boxes—which will also eliminate the use of those plastic 'air-pillows' that

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  Redesigning How We Clean: Ami Shah of iQ on Their Award Winning Refill Packaging (Interview)

  Over one billion plastic cleaning containers go into landfill each year, according to the Canadian eco-cleaning company Planet People. And did you know that the majority of household cleaners are 95 per cent water and only five per

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  Why Eco-Innovation is the Best Response to Greenwashing

  As the kickoff speaker to the Sustainable Brands '11

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  Major Brands Say Goodbye to Excess Packaging

  Good news, according to the New York Times: excess packaging, plastic in particular, is on the decline. Apparently more because of high oil prices than any environmental concern, but we'll take it. The Times has examples of

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  Aveda Aims for Zero Waste: Pilots Packaging Take-Back Program in Colorado

  As of yesterday, Coloradoans have a way to recycle packaging items that are not accepted by their curbside collection program. With the support of the city of Denver, Aveda launched its take-back program—the latest step

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  Ask Pablo: Can Food In A BPA-Lined Can Still Be Considered Organic?

  There are really two questions here: whether or not the USDA consider

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  Natural Products Expo 2011 Report: Functional Food and Sustainable Packages

  Ancient grains, coconut water, fair trade chocolates, protein bars, and organic pet food were in abundance in Orange County this weekend, where baobab and sea buckthorn joined acai, goji

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  New Cardboard Bottle From Seventh Generation Uses Just One-Third the Plastic as Competitors

  Quickly, in recycled packaging and living plastic-free (more or less) news: GreenBiz reports that perennial TreeHugger fave Seventh Generation has launched a new concentrated laundry detergent (cool enough) in a recycled cardboard shell (cooler). It's

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  Coca Cola, DuPont, Kellogg's and Others Establish a Trade Organization for Sustainable Packaging

  Some of the most ubiquitous products on supermarket shelves may soon have greener packaging— Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Kellogg's and others have formed a trade organization to coordinate

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  Ecolean Packaging Minimizes Without Loss of Functionality

  Yesterday's milk purchase came with a bit of surprise: the skinny packaging which we featured popping up in Asia three years ago has arrived at our table. Although it is heartening to see the spread of a good idea, it is a mixed blessing:

• Are Walmart's Eco-Efforts Enough? Balancing Sustainability & Social Responsibility at America's Largest Retailer

  Walmart has been in the sustainability spotlight over the last few years, both for implementing its own efficiency measures and for raising the bar for industry at large. Some view these initiatives with skepticism because the

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  Seventh Generation Leads the Way in Recycled Packaging and Green (Healthy) Cleaning

  Just over a month ago, Seventh Generation launched new packaging with 96 percent post-consumer recycled content. Anyone familiar with the numerous difficulties of plastics recycling knows that's huge. The company's also

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  In the UK, Excess Packaging is a Legal Matter

  Who said the U.S. has the most lawsuit-happy culture? The UK supermarket giant Sainsbury's was sued back in September for using too much packaging. The case was dropped about a month later, but that didn't stop the New