Carlsberg Will Soon Serve Its Beer In ‘World’s First’ Biodegradable Bottle

Carlsberg Will Soon Serve Its Beer In ‘World’s First’ Biodegradable Bottle

Danish brewer Carlsberg may be switching its iconic glass bottles to the “world’s first fully biodegradable bottle” for its products. The company is currently working on the “Green Fibre Bottle,” a lighter packaging that is made from sustainably sourced wood-fiber. Unlike the previously featured ‘PaperBoy Wine’ bottles made from recycled cardboard packaging, Carlsberg’s bottles will […]

Mars Chocolate Site In Topeka Achieves Prestigious LEED Gold Certification

Mars Chocolate Site In Topeka Achieves Prestigious LEED Gold Certification

Mars Chocolate North America announced that its new manufacturing facility in Topeka, Kan., has earned LEED Gold certification —an internationally accepted benchmark for designing, constructing and operating green buildings—from the U.S. Green Building Council. The roughly 500,000-square-foot facility, which opened in March, produces M&M’s Brand Candies and Snickers Bars. This accolade represents an additional LEED […]

The ‘World’s Smartest Pizza Box’ Turns Into Plates & A Left-Over Container

The ‘World’s Smartest Pizza Box’ Turns Into Plates & A Left-Over Container

Lifestyle website Inhabitat recently introduced us to “the world’s smartest pizza box”—the “GreenBox” is an “eco-friendly, easy-to-use, transforming design” that improves upon the conventional, inefficient pizza box. Designed by the late William Walsh after a series of experimentation, the GreenBox is a patented design that is made of 100% recycled materials—it is now available in […]

Bacardí Rum Delivers With Streamlined, Sustainable Packaging

Bacardí Rum Delivers With Streamlined, Sustainable Packaging

[fvplayer src=”http://origin-qps.onstreammedia.com/origin/multivu_archive/PRNA/ENR/FX-FL59342-20140627-1.mp4″] It begins in an expansive, pristine forest in Georgia, in the southern United States. There, mature trees are selected for an evolution that results in beautiful, bright boxes that carry the award-winning Bacardí rum to market. At every step along the way, sustainability is a key part of the equation – from trees that […]

Coca-Cola & Will.i.am Unveil 3D Printer That Makes Items From Used Coke Bottles

Coca-Cola & Will.i.am Unveil 3D Printer That Makes Items From Used Coke Bottles

Coca-Cola is making in-home 3D-printing as simple as making toasts with a new tech piece that comes as part of its Ekocycle brand initiative, centered around innovative recycling and sustainability. Ekocycle, launched by Coca-Cola and celebrated artist will.i.am back in 2012, now presents the Ekocycle Cube, a small-scale machine that “bakes” smaller items out of […]

UTZ Certified Launches Sustainable Hazelnuts Farming Initiative In Turkey

UTZ Certified Launches Sustainable Hazelnuts Farming Initiative In Turkey

UTZ Certified is launching a three-year initiative in Turkey aimed at bringing sound sustainability standards to hazelnut farming. A pilot project will be implemented across three hazelnut producing regions in the country; Trabzon and Giresun in the Northeast, and Duzce in the Northwest; where about 175 farmers are expected to take part. UTZ members such […]

Bacardi Rum Recycles Water in “Good Spirited” Initiative

Bacardi Rum Recycles Water in “Good Spirited” Initiative

Water is key to the production of Bacardi rum. On average, it takes 12 liters of water to create one liter of any distilled spirit. At the Bacardi distillery’s island home in Puerto Rico, water conservation is an important component of the Bacardi Limited sustainability commitment. Water is used to clean the American white oak barrels in […]

World’s Favorite Bacardi Rum Gives New Life to Barrels in ‘Good Spirited’ Initiative

World’s Favorite Bacardi Rum Gives New Life to Barrels in ‘Good Spirited’ Initiative

It takes time – in some cases, many years – for Bacardi rum to mellow and come of age. It’s the length of time the rum spends in American white oak barrels that determines the spirit’s richness, aroma and smoothness. When the rum is ready, and it’s time to retire the barrels – usually after approximately […]