Packaging & Shipping: GLRPPR Sector Resources

News: Dell Pledges Waste-Free Packaging by 2020

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:29:56 GMT

Dell yesterday announced sustainable packaging initiatives including goals for a waste-free packaging stream by 2020 and a new wheat straw material (pictured) that turns agricultural waste into boxes.

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News: Bill McDonough and Waste Management form innovation collaborative

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:13:05 GMT

Bill McDonough and Waste Management today announced a new partnership -- the Waste Management-McDonough Sustainable Innovation Collaborative -- aimed at advancing and improving recyclability and lessening the environmental impacts of products and packaging. It's a bold move on the part of America's largest waste-hauling company, whose CEO, David Steiner, has long envisioned mining waste materials to create new value for Waste Management and its customers. The new collaborative aims to help producers, manufacturers, retailers and suppliers of packaged goods and products consider the recyclability as well as the ecological and human health impacts of materials, beginning with the design phase.

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News: Archives of GLRPPR webinars now available

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:06:12 GMT

Archived webinars and related information are now available on GLRPPR's Conferences & Webinars page.

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News: Steps Towards Enhancing the Sustainability of Packaging

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:16:49 GMT

Sustainable packaging encompasses multiple initiatives, including producing effective solutions with minimum resources, protecting the product, transport efficiency and effective end of life management. What's encouraging is that each of the aforementioned can be accomplished one step at a time.

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News: What will it take to change packaging recycling in the U.S.?

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:50:21 GMT

Both sides in the extended producer responsibility debate want changes made to how recycling works in the U.S., but don't agree on how to do it.

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Resource: Recycling 2.0: Exploring Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging and Printed Material

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:59:10 GMT

The recycling symposium titled "Recycling 2.0: Exploring Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for printed and packaging material" was organized by Keep America Beautiful and held on the campus of the University of Minnesota. The discussion convened on this subject reflects one of the public engagement components of Keep America Beautiful, which seeks to work with key stakeholders to better understand and look ahead to possible changes and enhancements in recycling programs and policy. KAB's Annual Recycling Symposium is part of KAB's continuing role to convene key stakeholders and experts from the recycling community on issues that are timely, relevant, and vital to the success of recycling in the U.S. EPR for packaging and printed materials was chosen as the topic for this Symposium because the approach has been and is expected to continue to be considered by some states in the United States over the next few years. Currently in the United States, EPR exists primarily for hazardous materials and electronics, with 39 states having some kind of EPR regulation. In addition, EPR is in place in many jurisdictions in Canada and Europe.

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News: How UPS and USPS teamed up to create a new industry standard

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:03:06 GMT

The United States Postal Service and United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) have teamed up to deliver a special sustainability package aimed at reducing the carbon footprints for the world's largest postal and delivery companies.

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Resource: Summer P3 Interns? Project Overviews

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:30:40 GMT

Students worked with businesses to research methods of reducing waste and preventing pollution. They also assisted with a wide variety of environmental projects focusing on education, energy efficiency, water conservation and waste management. Each student prepared a report of proposed improvements, detailing the economic and environmental benefits of implementing their suggestions. The Project Overviews describe the interns' projects and recommendations.

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News: Acclaimed Movers & Storage leads by example with biodiesel fleet

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:09:03 GMT

The firm discovered that the most efficient way to reduce its carbon footprint was to convert the entire fleet over from regular diesel fuel to biodiesel. It was an arduous, and at times expensive, process, but one it was committed to seeing through.

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Resource: BLOOM Client Case Studies

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:10:54 GMT

Categorized by industry sector. Every two-page case study includes a summary of the pollution prevention assessment process and findings, and a table of pollution prevention solutions, environmental benefits and related cost savings.

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