Today’s post features guest contributor Eric Walter, who runs Black Bear Composting, an organics recycling company located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Black Bear Composting helps local business shrink their waste stream by recycling their food scraps via composting. With all of the benefits of composting commonly given, I have yet to see a story on how composting is a great way to keep … More
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) has announced the final agenda for its Spring Meeting 2012, the group’s largest annual event and one of the longest running sustainable packaging conferences. Green Retail Decisions
Eight Annual SPC Spring Meeting Will Bring Together Over 300 Packaging and Sustainability Professionals in Toronto April 23-25 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, March 19, 2012 – The Sustainable Packaging Coalition has announced the final agenda for its Spring Meeting 2012, the group’s largest annual event and one of the longest running sustainable packaging conference. The SPC’s eight annual Spring Meeting will be held April 23-25, 2012 at … More
This year marks GreenBlue’s 10th anniversary. At the end of our first decade, what will the next decade bring for the sustainability movement? We’re asking this question of visionaries, thought leaders, business innovators, scientists, and educators. Read other interviews from the Next Decade series about the future of the sustainability, products, and business. Legendary business thinker John Elkington recently suggested that he might declare the years 2012-2022 “The … More
Price fluctuation, demand exceeding supply and fibre strength are the main concerns for the US food packaging industry using recycled paper fibre, says research. Food Production Daily
GreenBlue is marking its first decade as a nonprofit sustainability-watchdog by looking ahead to its next. And it plans to mark the milestonewith a series of articles about the future of sustainability, products and business. Custom Home
Guidelines for Recycled Content in Paper and Paperboard Packaging outlines opportunities to use recycled content in 20 common retail packaging applications, including shopping and take-out bags, cereal boxes, toothbrush blister packs, software boxes, and coffee canisters. Green Retail Decisions
Last week we held a screening of the documentary Cool It at the GreenBlue offices as part of our monthly environmental film screening. The film, based on the book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, is about the book’s author, Danish economist and political scientist Bjørn Lomborg, and his alternative (and sometimes controversial) approach to combatting climate change. The Los Angels Times … More
Optimizing the use of recycled content continues to rank among the key strategies by which brand owners and retailers strive to make their packaging more sustainable. This is true because, unlike some other strategies, the use of recycled content is something consumers relate to and generally understand. Packaging Digest
Recognizing the growing interest in increasing recycled content in packaging as a sustainability strategy, GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition has released a report on the opportunities and challenges for using recycled fiber in packaging. Packaging World