Category Archives: Paper & Packaging

Hunting for environmental hotspots in Walmart products

By | Bio | Published: July 12, 2010

At Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), our work with Walmart focuses on leveraging the company’s buying power to reduce the environmental impacts of consumer goods. One of the clearest points of leverage is Walmart’s own store brands—Great Value, Sam’s Choice, Equate, and others that account for a sizable and growing percentage of the company’s sales. An [...]

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The Starbucks Cup Summit: Rethinking the Recycling System

By | Bio | Published: May 12, 2010

When I got the invitation to Starbucks’ second Cup Summit in April, I was struck by the ambitiousness of the agenda.  According to the email, the purpose of the meeting was to help the company meet its goal of making its hot and cold single-use cups “recyclable in form and practice” by 2012. What that [...]

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Got paper? Here's a tool to help you reduce the environmental impacts of paper use

By | Bio | Published: April 5, 2010

Even in our electronic age, paper is still with us.  It brings us our morning news (some of us still arrive at work with ink-stained fingers), great literature and gossip magazines, personal hygiene and playing cards.  But producing and disposing of paper has huge and wide-ranging environmental impacts, from damage to forests to energy and [...]

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Walmart Redux: Citizens and Consumers

By | Published: March 26, 2010

This content is written by Dominique Browning and originally ran on her EDF column, Personal Nature. I wouldn't normally write about the same subject twice in a row, but the impassioned responses to last month's column on Walmart's move to cut carbon emissions from their supply chain made me want to give it another think. [...]

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Hassle-free Travel = Paper-free Travel

By | Bio | Published: October 22, 2009

So maybe I'm the last to the gate here, but as I'm sitting here in my hotel room checking in to my Newark – Boston flight home, I received an option from Continental to receive a paperless boarding pass. Now travelers who check-in to their flights ahead of time can receive a link on their [...]

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PaperCalculator 2.0: An even more robust tool for managing paper

By | Bio | Published: July 23, 2009

EDF recently enhanced one of our most popular resources for companies: PaperCalculator.org. Now fully updated with the latest scientific information, it is a robust tool for understanding how different paper choices affect the environment – whether you want to know how many trees were spared by reducing paper use, or the energy savings from choosing [...]

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Green Eats

By | Bio | Published: June 23, 2009

Today EDF and Restaurant Associates (part of the foodservice giant Compass Group) released the Green Dining Best Practices, a comprehensive set of science-based recommendations for environmentally friendly dining. The recommendations cover twelve key dining categories related to food purchase and facility operation, and will be updated over time as new best practices evolve. The project [...]

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Innovations Review 2009: Green Advances for a New Economy

By | Bio | Published: April 21, 2009

Today, EDF releases Innovations Review 2009: Green Advances for a New Economy.  As the title implies, we're highlighting compelling new practices and technologies that drive operational efficiency, create new business opportunities and carve out competitive advantage in these challenging times.  Why?  Because even though these practices have been proven to be technically and financially feasible, [...]

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A New Environmental Design Tool for Packaging

By | Bio | Published: March 24, 2009

Yesterday the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) launched COMPASS, a new software tool that corporate packaging designers can use to assess the environmental impacts of packaging designs and inform decisions about packaging changes. COMPASS grew out of an earlier software tool called MERGE that EDF developed through our partnerships with SC Johnson, Bristol Meyers Squibb and [...]

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