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Greener Skies Ahead: How Cutting Carbon Emissions Helped FedEx's Bottom Line

Last month, FedEx issued a report with much fanfare about the results of two initiatives that made them proud: They had set baseline targets back in 2005 and were already close to hitting their goals. All told, the two initiatives saved FedEx a combined $281m dollars in cost savings in fiscal 2016 alone.

UPS, Sealed Air Unveil Packaging Innovation Center

Meeting the increasingly high demands of e-commerce customers and helping shippers drive efficiency in their fulfillment operations were two of the main themes as UPS and Sealed Air jointly unveiled their packaging innovation center.

Walmart Spends $141M on Ethics and Compliance Systems

Walmart has spent more than $141m on ethics and compliance systems since 2013, to manage and track efforts that include appointing over 2,300 ethics and compliance professionals, ensuring compliance is up-to-date and accurate, and creating a board-level Global Ethics, Compliance & Risk Committee, the company recently announced.

Here's How Hundreds of Tons of Plastic Trash End Up in Arctic Ocean

Plastic trash is now so ubiquitous that researchers have found hundreds of tons of it floating in the Arctic Ocean.

The Superfood Gold Rush

Like quinoa before it, açaí has become a craze among health-conscious Americans - creating a bonanza in the regions where it's grown.

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Target Vows to See That All Packaging Is Recyclable

Target says it will use its "power and scale" as one of the country's largest retailers to advance the idea that all packaging will be recyclable one day, and to help consumers understand how and why recycling is so important.

UPS Says Cockpit Upgrade Cuts Carbon Emissions and Increases Reliability

UPS is upgrading the cockpits of its 757s and 767s - installing large display system (LDS) screens in the cockpits of more than half its fleet, plus the three passenger 767s that were recently purchased.

Cocoa Producers Band Together to Fight Price Collapse

Cocoa-growing countries will fight a price rout by banding together and co-ordinating production strategies, the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) has said.

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Q&A: Spurring Innovation Through Zero Waste

Lawrence Black sees the circular economy finally moving from theory and high-level strategy to practical applications in design, engineering, and marketing. He has a clear view of these changes as senior advisor to the Waste Management-McDonough Sustainable Innovation Collaborative, a partnership formed in 2013 to improve the recyclability of packaging and products.

H&M Backs Fabric Made From Cow Manure

H&M has pledged to use 100-percent recycled or sustainably sourced materials by 2030 in its latest sustainability report.

This Sweater Company Is Breaking a Cashmere Cartel

In 2012, Matt Scanlan, the founder and chief executive officer of Naadam Cashmere, was just a young New York University alumnus with an unsatisfying job at a venture capital firm. "After a couple years of working as an analyst - which is a pretty thankless job - I left," he says. "A week after I quit, I booked a flight" to Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, to visit a college friend who lived in the region. The two of them met a newspaper reporter who hailed from Scanlan's hometown of Westport, Conn., and soon happened to hit it off with a couple of the reporter's sources, nomadic goat herders."

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E.U. Banks to Support Green Shipping

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Dutch bank ABN Amro have signed an agreement to support investments for greening the European shipping fleet.

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