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For close to a year, some Bayer and Aleve products have been sold as stand-alone bottles instead of bottles inside boxes. While reducing the amount of packaging material, the move also changed the cap and label materials.   Read More

What does Toyota's travails mean to green marketing? That's a question that seems ripe these days, as the leading Japanese auto maker gets a comeuppance for its allegedly serious safety defects. Here are four possible scenarios. Read More

PlasticsMarkets.org, an online directory for buyers and sellers of plastic scrap, has been expanded with a wider scope of materials, scrap pricing and an improved search feature.   Read More

Material is expensive and so is the energy used to make it. You should put the material where it is needed and take it away from where it is doing no good. Living bone is actually doing this all the time, and some designers have mimicked this process.   Read More

U.K. supermarket giant Sainsbury's will replace tomato tins with cartons in an effort to cut packaging and emissions.   Read More

Straus Family Creamery is testing out Ecologic Brands' hybrid bottle, which combines a thin plastic pouch with a recycled-cardboard shell that is recyclable and compostable.   Read More

Amazon.com had added information on the EPEAT electronics ratings system to products that have met the environmental rating's criteria.   Read More

That seems like quite a claim and I have to admit I did not believe it, but recently I received an egg, light bulb and a brick packed in the same box.   Read More

Synbra Technology's BioFoam, a biodegradable and sugar cane-based alternative to styrofoam, has earned the basic Cradle to Cradle certification.   Read More

An investigation into jewelry made for kids and teens found that some manufacturers are replacing lead, which is now heavily regulated under U.S. law, with cadmium, a heavy metal that is dangerous as well.   Read More