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Coke Sets Goal Of Recycling All Bottles Sold In U.S.

Coca-Cola will help build a $45 million plastics recycling plant in South Carolina and has set a goal of having every bottle it sells in the U.S. recycled or reused, Forbes reports. The company estimates about 10 percent of its plastic bottles are recycled now. It has not set a date for reaching the...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-06-2007
A Roadmap to Sustainability

The path to sustainability involves two cycles that lead to continuous, sustainable improvement while also having a positive effect on a company’s bottom line, according to an article in CRO Magazine by Susan Graff, founder and principal of ERS. The first focuses on pollution prevention through cleaner...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-06-2007
BT Aims For More Efficient Data Centers

BT's data center chief Steve O'Donnell says the company is consolidating many of its systems onto VMware and Solaris containers to physically reduce the number of servers, according to an IT Week interview. "Rather......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2007
ESCI Launches Supply Chain Carbon Council

The European Supply Chain Institute has launched a Supply Chain Carbon Council that hopes to bring Europe's leading commercial interests and government bodies together to develop and promote strategies to manage carbon emissions in the supply chain. The aim......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2007
Virgin To Avoid Buying 4 Engine Planes For Environmental Reasons

Richard Branson says Virgin Atlantic will aim to avoid buying four-engined airplanes in future for both economic and environmental reasons, Reuters reports. Virgin Atlantic's fleet of 38 planes all have four......( read more )

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2007
NEC Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

NEC's Annual CSR Report for 2007 provides an in-depth overview of its CSR-related activities, including corporate governance (ethics and compliance, risk management and information security) and initiatives. You can see the environmental report here and the CSR Digest here. NEC has created a CSR...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2007
Schwarzenegger Meets With German Minister To Discuss Carbon Trading

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, plan to begin talks today about how California could work with the European Union to create a system that would allow companies to buy and sell credits for emission reductions, The San Francisco Chronicle reports...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2007
Qantas Plans September Takeoff For Carbon Offset Program

Qantas says that beginning in September, consumers and businesses will be able to purchase carbon credits to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, Australia's The Age reports. The company hasn't said how much the offsets will increase the price of a ticket. Qantas will cover......( read more...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2007
GM Plant Eliminates Waste, Goes Landfill-Free

General Motors' Baltimore transmission plant has reached zero landfill status. The plant is the eighth GM facility to be tagged as landfill-free. The GM Powertrain Baltimore plant will be the exclusive manufacturer of GM’s all-new two-mode hybrid transmission. GM says that the hybrid technology will...

Posted to Area51 (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2007
Stora Enso Installs New Sustainability Management Software

Paper, packaging and forest products company Stora Enso is installing sustainability management and reporting software from Proventia Solutions. The system combines Proventia's sustainability management and reporting solution with Hyperion's financial management and reporting tool......( read...

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