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Swiss Army is switching from all-plastic clamshell packaging for its knives to a mostly-paperboard package with a small plastic bubble.   Read More

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

A study by the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) finds that environmental and sustainability (E&S) employee education and engagement initiatives help companies achieve a range of business objectives from attracting and retaining employees to boosting the bottom line. 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

This report gives an introduction to the top seven strategies being employed by companies that want to stay ahead of the curve on sustainability efforts. 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