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Most companies are tracking some data on their operational environmental performance, but most of that is limited to tracking electricity, according to new survey results from iReuse.

The nationwide Facility and Sustainability Data Management Survey found that: (more…)

Last Wednesday, a day after Greenpeace released a new report airing fresh allegations that the Indonesian paper firm Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is “wreaking environmental havoc” in rainforests and peatlands, French retail giant Carrefour announced that it has suspended sourcing of APP products.

APP is part of the Sinar Mas group, and the Greenpeace report, titled How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet, maintains that the paper company is destroying Indonesia’s rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands so that it can feed its Sumatran based pulp mills, which then export pulp and paper products to a variety retailers worldwide. (more…)

Companies need to make wholesale changes to their business technology if they want to keep up with rapidly evolving mandates for environmental tracking, according to new research conducted for IFS in the USA, Scandinavia and Benelux.

The study, based on surveys of industrial executives in each region, discovered that more than three quarters of companies consider it important to track their environmental profile—that includes 83 percent in the USA, 82 percent Scandinavia and 79 percent in Benelux. (more…)