What makes a sustainability leader? Meet circular economy innovators, P&G
With less than a month until the 2021 Sustainability Leaders Awards, this feature series showcases the achievements of the 2020 winners and reveals their secrets to success. Up next: The winners of the Circular Economy Innovation of the Year, Procter & Gamble.
Giraffe Innovation’s Rob Holdway and compere Julia Bradbury (right) present P&G with the award
As part of its own five-pillar plastics packaging strategy and its involvement in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy initiative, Procter & Gamble (P&G) is working to develop a system to place digital watermarks on packaging, so they can be identified by stakeholders, including consumers and waste management firms.
13 gennaio 2021
The operation creates the most vertically integrated group in the bioplastics industry and allows the Italian B-Corp to further expand into Northern/Eastern Europe, North America and Australia
NOVARA, Italy and ASKIM, Norway, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Italy’s Novamont, a world leader in the development and production of biochemicals and compostable bioplastics, announced today it has acquired BioBag Group, a Norway based leading supplier of low-impact solutions for waste collection and packaging.
The acquisition will allow Novamont to benefit from BioBag’s highly specialised independent distribution in areas where the buyer is less present. The two companies will be able to offer a more complete solution set to the market and to create long-lasting alliances with key stakeholders such as large retailers and communities. Together they plan to build even more demonstrators (innovative projects that enhance separate organic waste collection and composting sys
The operation creates the most vertically integrated group in the bioplastics industry and allows the Italian B-Corp to further expand into Northern/Eastern Europe, North America and Australia NOVARA, Italy and ASKIM, Norway, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Italy's Novamont, a world leader in the development and production of biochemicals and compostable bioplastics, announced today it has acquired BioBag Group,.
January 11, 2021
The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up.
These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models sometimes all at once. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. They sparked uncomfortable conversations about diversity and discrimination, some pledging many millions of dollars to address lingering inequities internally and in society at large. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050.
As polylactic acid becomes an increasingly established material option, demand has soared. For almost two decades, NatureWorks has been the driving force behind the development of this market.