Circular Economy
Coca-Cola Puts HFC Vending Machines on Ice, Full Phaseout Set for 2015
The Coca-Cola Company has pledged to replace all its vending machines using hydrofluorocarbons with coolers that employ more environmentally friendly refrigerants by 2015, the beverage firm and Greenpeace said. Read More
Coca-Cola's New PlantBottle Sows Path to Greener Packaging
(Episode 99): Scott Vitters, the Coca-Cola Company's global head of sustainable packaging, takes the wraps off the company's new PlantBottle, a recyclable PET plastic container made partially from plants. Read More
How Companies Are Committing to Reduce Toxic Footprints
The first of a three-part series about developing a benchmark to help companies embrace green chemistry and toxic reductions explores which firms are leading the charge, and how they benefit from designing greener products. Read More
New, Green 'Safe Spoon' Goes Where Normal Utensils Can't
SpoonLidz has developed a new, paperboard spoon touted as an alternative to plastic or bio-based spoons and which cannot be used to cause harm. Read More
Axion To Build Two Additional Recycled Plastic Bridges For the U.S. Army
Axion International Holdings has been commissioned by the U.S. Army to build two bridges from recycled plastic at Fort Eustis in Virginia. The bridges are planned to be able to handle 130 pounds, more than Axion's previous two recycled plastic bridges at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Read More
Dell Protects Laptops With Bamboo Packaging
Dell is introducing bamboo cushioning with its Inspiron Mini 10 and Mini 10v netbooks, part of its broader goal to reduce its packaging by 10 percent and use more recyclable material. Read More
What's Better for Green Design: Glass or Ceramic?
When a design project requires a material with a cold, smooth, high-quality feel, what's better -- ceramic or glass? Read More
Vetrazzo Gets a Green Audit to Back Its Product Claims
The manufacturer of recycled-glass surfaces announced during Greenbuild 2009 that it had published an Environmental Product Declaration, allowing customers to verify the reduced impacts of its product line. Read More
Thinking Outside the Box on Packaging Design
Although many people think of packaging -- especially wasteful packaging -- as an afterthought, as more and more environmental regulations begin to address packaging's impacts, manufacturers are starting to design their packages with more care than products themselves. Read More
Sodexo Drives Down Waste and Water Use at Cox and National Geographic
Sodexo helped National Geographic cut water consumption in its cafeteria by 18 percent between 2006 and 2009, it said in its latest citizenship report. Meanwhile, Sodexo cut waste at Communications by 80 percent by recycling or composting all paper, cardboard, food products and plastics used in the company's cafeteria. Read More