October 20, 2015
[Editor's Note: Ron Cotterman, Vice President, Sustainability, Sealed Air, spoke on our pre-conference roundtable, Global Food Security: Bringing it Home for U.S. Consumers.
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September 29, 2015
[Editor's Note: In partnership with Ecova, we are hosting a business-only delegation tour to Seattle on November 9-10 to explore cutting-edge solutions to eradicate waste using a circular economy model.
September 23, 2015
Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Andrew Singer, Vice President, National Accounts, Constellation. Constellation works with companies to help them meet their sustainability goals, applying their expertise to help create a more sustainable world.
July 29, 2015
[Editor's Note: Ed Pinero, Senior Vice President, Sustainability and Public Affairs, Veolia North America will be speaking at our annual conference, Connect the Dots: How Businesses Solve Global Challenges Locally, on October 6.
April 28, 2015
Fast-forward 20 years in the United States. Landfills are becoming obsolete. Market-based incentives have been implemented at a large and harmonized scale. Companies no longer pay for trash collection; they get paid for their trash. Waste has intrinsic value as a resource.
April 22, 2015
The last 150 years of industrial evolution have been dominated by a one-way or linear model of production and consumption, in which goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used, and then discarded as waste.
April 17, 2015
Water and Energy systems are intertwined. Producing or refining one involves the consumption of the other. This relationship is often referred to as the Energy-Water Nexus, and ensuring that those resources are being used efficiently is an important aspect to increasing resilience.
April 14, 2015
If successful, we’ll spend the rest of our days harvesting yesteryear’s carpets, recycling old petrochemicals into new materials, and converting sunlight into energy. There will be zero scrap going into landfills and zero emissions into the biosphere. Literally, our company will gro
April 2, 2015
Leading companies like Veolia, DSM and SAB Miller are beginning to shift from the traditional linear “take, make, dispose” business model to a more regenerative circular economy framework.