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Center for Health, Environment & Justice’s Mike Schade

The Center for Health, Environment & Justice is an organization that works to prevent harm from toxic chemicals in homes and schools, often in communities directly affected by industrial chemical facilities, plants and incinerators. Toxic chemicals like bisphenol-A, phthalates and PVC are known to cause asthma, cancer, development disabilities and more, and they are found in […]

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Center for Sustainable Organizations’ Mark W. McElroy

Founded in 2004 by Mark W. McElroy, the Center for Sustainable Organizations is a nonprofit specializing in context-based sustainability that conducts research, develops, trains and consults for, and with, companies around the world interested in improving the sustainability performance of their operations. Context-based sustainability is an approach for measuring, managing and reporting the sustainability performance of organizations […]

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Putting an End to Plastic Bottle Waste with Nestlé Waters North America’s Michael Washburn

Extended producer responsibility is at the forefront of Nestlé Waters North America‘s sustainability profile. The company’s Vice President of Sustainability, Michael Washburn, says that recycling rates for beverage containers hover somewhere between 30% and 40% — especially significant when you consider that beverage containers represent 4% of the U.S. solid waste stream. Now, the company […]

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R2 Solutions’ John Lingelbach

R2 Solutions’ John Lingelbach helped found a responsible recycling (hence the “R2” name) standard that provides guidelines for e-waste recyclers to properly, safely recycle through an extensive certification program. When Lingelbach began to investigate this back in 2006, e-waste recycling was completely unregulated and shrouded in mystery. Today, the organization has certified more than 425 […]