November 22nd, 2011
Posted by Senior Director, Juliette Terzieff
AT&T made the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America for a second consecutive year by reducing the amount of plastic in its accessory packaging, investing in clean energy and encouraging community volunteerism among its employees. The new packaging is made up of 30 percent bioplastic—a plant-based material harvested from sugarcane. AT&T is the latest in a list of prominent brand names to recalibrate products to include bioplastic, such as Coca-Cola’s 2009 introduction of the PlantBottle, and the company remains on the leading edge of using this new technology in a myriad of its products as part of its sustainability efforts.
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Tags: at&t, bioplastics, cellular telephones, climate change, coca-cola, Danone, Ford, Mazda, motorola, Nestle, pepsi co, plant bottle, Procter & Gamble, samsung, sustainable packaging
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February 10th, 2010
By Bill Shireman, Future500 President:
A FRAMEWORK FOR 21ST CENTURY RECYCLING AND SUSTAINABILITY
The greatest challenge facing the country is not war, ecological decline, or economic recession. It is the cynical divisiveness and hate-mongering that ideologues on the left and right use to keep their true believers in separate corners of the ring, engaging for only a few minutes at a time to trade verbal punches before retreating to their safe havens.
Take a simple issue that shouldn’t be very heated: recycling. What a nice, friendly, happy solution recycling should be – it reduces climate, water, energy, and litter impacts. Yet, since Oregon passed the nation’s first “bottle bill” over three decades ago, adversaries have been locked in battle, each side holding firmly to positions they first embraced when Lyndon Johnson was President.
Now, however, this ideological Berlin Wall is beginning to come down. After more than a generation of innovative recycling approaches in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, people on all sides are opening their minds to new, 21st Century ways of recycling.
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February 2nd, 2010
From Bill, Shireman, Future 500 President
It’s not quite a perfect storm – but several factors have converged that could drive a host of new fees on three types of products: beverages, electronics, and packaging – in 2010 and 2011.
Whether the fees make good policy sense – or get to the root of the problems they are intended to address – depends on whether the diverse universe of supporters and opponents can actually work with one another, directly or indirectly.
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Tags: bottle bill, junk food, obesity tax, package fees, product stewardship, Recycling, sugary drinks, take back program
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