Day: 21 November 2018

PepsiCo Announces New Packaging Goal For 25% Recycled Plastic Content By 2025

Stuart Mitchell

As part of its sustainable plastics vision, PepsiCo, Inc. today announced a new goal to strive to use 25 percent recycled content in its plastic packaging by 2025. PepsiCo aims to achieve this goal by collaborating with suppliers and partners, helping to increase consumer education, fostering cross-industry and public-private partnerships, and advocating for improved recycling infrastructure and regulatory reform, all of which are required to realize our ambition. The goal includes an aim specific to PET (polyethylene terephthalate) beverage bottles to achieve 33% recycled PET content by 2025. “PepsiCo’s sustainable…

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New Campbell report looks at reducing serious injuries and fatalities on the job.

Stuart Mitchell

A new report from the Campbell Institute released during the 2018 National Safety Council Congress and Expo, the world’s largest annual gathering of safety professionals, takes an in-depth look at serious injuries and fatalities in the workplace and illustrates a new prevention model suggested by safety experts in recent years. Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen enormous gains in workplace safety, according to the report, titled Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention: Perspectives and Practices. The gains in safety are illustrated by the total recordable incident rate, which…

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Learn How to Help Your Company Address the Climate Crisis in Free Webcast, December 5th

Stuart Mitchell

How do you set aggressive climate change goals within your company? What are tips to communicating the urgency for reducing emissions? This webinar will provide critical information for making the business case internally, and setting meaningful and credible science-based emissions reduction targets (SBTs). Join Addison and CDP for “How to Help Your Company Address the Climate Crisis,” December 5th at 12 p.m. ET. This free webcast is recommended for executives at major corporations tasked with setting and/or communicating energy and emissions reductions and goals for their organization. CLICK HERE TO…

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Books-A-Million to Donate over 72,000 Bags of Coffee to U.S. Troops and Veterans

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands of U.S. troops serving overseas, veterans and VA hospitals will soon receive a special taste of home thanks to the incredible generosity of Books-A-Million customers during the 12th Coffee for the Troops campaign in partnership with Soldiers’ Angels. The patriotic program, which ran September 30 through October 27, allowed customers to honor brave U.S. soldiers by purchasing a bag of coffee from any Books-A-Million location or online. Customers purchased more than 60,700 bags of freshly ground Joe Muggs Coffee for donations. Books-A-Million also contributed one bag of coffee for…

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Food Lion Feeds Launches “Holidays Without Hunger” Campaign to Help Feed Local Families in Need This Holiday Season

Stuart Mitchell

Food Lion believes no one should go hungry, especially during the holiday season, and the grocer is making it easy and affordable for its customers in its more than 1,000 stores to help families in need through its Food Lion Feeds “Holidays Without Hunger” campaign, Nov. 14 through Dec. 18. Through the campaign, customers can purchase and donate a specially-marked “Holidays Without Hunger” food box for $5, while supplies last, or make a cash donation at checkout. Food Lion Feeds is partnering with Feeding America®, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief…

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