Companies Laying Groundwork for Global Circular Economy
Key Updates on the Progress toward Circular Business Models at SB’19 Detroit, June 3-6. A growing number of companies across multiple industries are finding business opportunities in eliminating waste from their operations and keeping products and materials in use. Finding new life for existing products, implementing extended producer responsibility initiatives and redesigning products to virtually eliminate waste from the onset are giving innovative companies the edge.
Help HPRC Launch New Recycling Vendor Directory!
The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new project focused on creating a nationwide recycling vendor directory, designed to enable hospitals to build a more complete recycling program and provide recyclers with information about potential new feedstocks.
Thinking Like the Consumer: Kimberly-Clark Leverages Brand Insights to Elevate Compliance Programs
Great brands like Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, and Kotex take deep consumer insights and apply them to every aspect of a product’s design, packaging, and marketing. It’s a continuous cycle that repeats itself in order for these essential brands to stand out with consumers.

Recently, Kimberly-Clark and its global compliance team decided to borrow a few pages out of its brand playbooks and apply them to its core product – the Code of Conduct. Like most large companies, Kimberly-Clark maintains a significant number of policies, procedures, and instructions to guide daily business decisions for its 41,000 employees around the world.
BIER Launches New Website, Showcasing Beverage Industry Sustainability
The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) is excited to raise a glass in celebration of the release of their new website, bieroundtable.com.

Through responsive and mobile-friendly design, enhanced search capabilities, and a new publication library, among other enhancements, the new BIER website makes it easier for visitors to learn more about sustainability leadership and best practices in the beverage industry, to browse BIER work products, and to find out how to become a BIER member.
Be Your Best: Our Keys to a Safer, Healthier and Happier Schneider Electric
At Schneider, safety is everyone’s responsibility. Nurturing a safe, clean and orderly work environment is both our collective responsibility and a function of every Schneider employee, partner, and affiliate. Our story encompasses generations of people who have transformed our company, and the world, for almost two centuries. Today, our heritage has empowered us to innovate at every level, enabling us to become leaders in digital transformation.
John Stoehr: Let’s Impeach the President
We have our hands full at Sea Change Radio just trying to cover important stories relating to the environment and social justice. But we also recognize that what’s happening in the broader political landscape has a profound ripple effect on environmental and social policies.
Nike, Bridgestone and a Dozen Others Join Businesses Pushing Back on Controversial Tennessee Bills
Locally, the Nashville LGBT Chamber distributed its own letter that was signed by seven of its major corporate members, including Bridgestone Americas Inc., Dell Technologies, Salesforce.com Inc. and Postmates. AllianceBernstein, Curb Records and Warner Music Group also signed on to the chamber's letter, after previously speaking out individually on the bills. Joe Woolley, the chamber's CEO, said in an email that 20 small businesses have also endorsed the letter.
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