E-commerce is a growing channel for Walmart, and associated waste and packaging are some of the company’s priority areas as it tackles emissions — particularly Scope 3, or value chain, emissions.

States ban plastic bags, PFAS chemicals, and foam containers to cut waste and improve recycling across multiple industries ...

Until now, old clothes have mainly been incinerated. Using adapted processes from paper production, it is possible to recover ...

California milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol, the one with the chasing arrows, potentially threatening the existence of the ubiquitous beverage containers. Plastic waste, harmful to ...

American household garbage increases by 25% over the holidays, but it doesn't have to tax the area's stressed trash disposal ...

Amazon claims four guiding principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence and long-term thinking. Through the company’s focus ...

‘Twas the week after Christmas, and in a quiet corner of the San Fernando Valley, lines of waste collection trucks waited to offload their goods onto a growing mountain of garbage. Here at the Athens ...

Scientists have developed a technique to convert waste paper, from single-use packaging and bags, and cardboard boxes, into a crucial component of lithium-ion batteries. Through a process called ...

Irish households were snowed under by packaging this Christmas. Here are some tips for reducing the burden in 2026 ...

Like many other major plastics applications, plastics use in flexible packaging has come under deep scrutiny in recent years as sustainability concerns rise and spread globally. Paper is often lauded ...

A pile of unboxed packaging used by Choo Choo Bob's Train Store demonstrates the amount of waste the store throws away on a regular basis. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency along with local ...

Plastics manufacturers and their customers in the European Union are under constant pressure to reduce the volume of plastics used in packaging, not least by the 2004 EU packaging and packaging waste ...