Author: GreenBlue

Join Us for the Sustainable Packaging Coalition Spring Meeting

February 22, 2012 by GreenBlue

In just over two months, GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition will host over 300 sustainability professionals for the packaging event of the year. We’ve just announced this year’s agenda, an exciting lineup of speakers with sessions ranging from envisioning a world without packaging waste to millennials, social media, and packaging. We hope you will consider joining us in Toronto on April 23-25! Meeting Information and Registration … More →

GreenBlue’s Forest Products Working Group Seeks Members

February 8, 2012 by GreenBlue

Sustainability non-profit GreenBlue has opened membership for its newly formed Forest Products Working Group, which brings together companies that rely on paper, wood, and other forest products to share their knowledge and develop new and sustainable business solutions. Packaging Asia

Oxo-degradables and GreenBlue’s Not-So-Scientific Rooftop Lab

February 8, 2012 by GreenBlue

This article is by GreenBlue’s experimenters extraordinaire: Project Manager Adam Gendell and Project Associate Eric DesRoberts. Back in August 2011 we serendipitously came across an oxo-degradable LDPE film wrap (for those of you who may not be enveloped in packaging lingo, that means it’s a thin piece of plastic with special additives that are activated under prolonged exposure to sunlight and oxygen to make the plastic … More →

The Next Decade: Five Trends in Product Sustainability

February 6, 2012 by GreenBlue

This year marks GreenBlue’s 10th anniversary. One way we plan to recognize this milestone is to organize a series of articles about the future of the sustainability, products, and business. At the end of our first decade, what will the next decade bring for GreenBlue and the broader sustainability movement? Through the coming year, watch this space for features and interviews with visionaries, thought leaders, … More →

Road Map Offers Path Toward Effective Material Value Recovery

February 3, 2012 by GreenBlue

The materials we use in our society are valuable. Yet in the U.S., we only recover about one third of municipal solid waste annually. Packaging materials represent a large and visible part of this waste stream. How can we capture the value of those materials instead of throwing them away after a single use? Packaging Digest

Seeking Leadership Companies for GreenBlue’s Forest Products Working Group

January 30, 2012 by GreenBlue

We are pleased to announce that we have opened up membership for our Forest Products Working Group and we are seeking leadership companies to join this important effort. The Forest Products Working Group brings together leading companies that rely on paper, wood, and other forest products to share their knowledge and develop new solutions for making their businesses more sustainable. The group, following the successful … More →

Membership Opens for GreenBlue’s Forest Products Working Group

January 30, 2012 by GreenBlue

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, January 30, 2012—Sustainability nonprofit GreenBlue has opened membership for its newly formed Forest Products Working Group, which brings together leading companies that rely on paper, wood, and other forest products to share their knowledge and develop new solutions for making their businesses more sustainable. The group was first publicly announced in October 2011 with eight founding members: Avery Dennison Corporation, Avon Products, Inc., … More →

More Buzz for the How2Recycle Label

January 25, 2012 by GreenBlue

Check out last night’s clip from our local station NBC29 on the pilot of our How2Recycle label. Senior Project Manager Anne Bedarf was able to show off the label on packages in stores now. We’ve recently had more companies sign on for the effort so stay tuned for more developments!

A Film Review: WALL-E

January 13, 2012 by GreenBlue

To celebrate the holiday season at GreenBlue, we watched WALL-E as part of our monthly environmental film screening in December. WALL-E, a computer-animated science fiction film by Pixar set in the distant future, takes place in a world that has become engulfed by trash due to decades of mass consumerism, and as a result the planet has become inhabitable and humans have been evacuated to … More →

Road Map for More Effective U.S. Material Recovery Systems Released

January 9, 2012 by GreenBlue

Recognizing the limitations of the U.S. waste management system, where only about one-third of all municipal solid waste (MSW) is recovered by recycling or composting, GreenBlue® has released a report that assesses a variety of material recovery systems around the world in order to inform U.S. policies and approaches. Greener Package