Over the past few years, the global sustainability movement has influenced how corporations are looking at their energy spend and taking steps to lower their carbon footprint.
Veolia, along with its partners The Water Council and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, just launched a nationwide competition to highlight social innovations focused on sustainable solutions to water issues.
The shift to the circular economy requires companies to rethink more than just their use of renewable energy, toxic chemicals, and resource footprint to capitalize on the benefits the circular economy offers.
[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.
[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.
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.
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.
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.









