The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has unearthed an useful fact: America’s landfills are not just repositories of waste but untapped goldmines of economic potential. But the news comes with evil tidings for paper and cardboard recycling, which NREL says has been dramatically over-reported. An extensive analysis by NREL researchers reports that piles of cardboard and […]
Take a deep dive into plastic recycling and the environmental impacts of plastic, aluminum, and glass beverage containers. A recent lifecycle analysis published by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), the industry group whose members made the 485 billion polyethylene terephthalate (PET), or #1 plastic, bottles that lined the shelves of groceries and convenience stores around the world […]
Take a deep dive into plastic recycling and the environmental impacts of plastic, aluminum, and glass beverage containers. A recent lifecycle analysis published by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), the industry group whose members made the 485 billion polyethylene terephthalate (PET), or #1 plastic, bottles that lined the shelves of groceries and convenience stores around the world […]
As the economy turns sour, do shoppers still value sustainability when making decisions about what to buy? We welcome back Dan Smythe, vice president of Retail and Hospitality Consulting at EPAM Continuum, to discuss the final installment of their Consumers Unmasked project. The four-part study of shoppers’ values and the important factors in their buying decisions has tracked consumer sentiment […]