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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy

GreenBiz

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities. An extended dialogue.

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The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20

GreenBiz

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. percent of all the plastic produced in 2017 eventually got recycled, according to the U.S. "We Indeed, only 8.4

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How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair

GreenBiz

Only 20 percent of e-waste is recycled, according to a United Nations University report in 2017. The fate of the rest is mostly unknown, probably either landfilled, reused or recycled informally. For Ed Boyd, an inside look at a recycling plant was a wake-up call.

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Today’s wind turbine blades could become tomorrow’s bridges

Grist

According to the Electric Power Research Institute , blade sizes have “increased dramatically” in recent years, from an average diameter of 145 feet in 1997 to 367 feet in 2017. Others, like General Electric, are using old turbine blades to cook up new materials. Unfortunately, in the U.S.

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There’s gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs

The Verge: Energy

“There’s been significant investment flowing towards building recycling capabilities across the world in recent months,” Jessica Roberts, head of forecasting at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence , says. “In Former Tesla CTO and co-founder JB Straubel launched Redwood in 2017. But can we meet the market need with recycled materials?

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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy

AGreenLiving

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities.

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How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair

Business Green

Only 20 percent of e-waste is recycled, according to a United Nations University report in 2017. The fate of the rest is mostly unknown, probably either landfilled, reused or recycled informally. For Ed Boyd, an inside look at a recycling plant was a wake-up call.