Article from Talk Business & Politics
Global nonprofit The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) recently released a study featuring Cassville, Mo.-based recycler Marck Recycling that shows more work is needed to improve existing systems to recycle plastic film, including grocery and trash bags, food packaging, and wraps for agricultural products.
3/9/2021, Scottsdale, AZ
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released today the Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Success: Policy + Reverse Supply Chains report in collaboration with the Responsible Battery Coalition.
Article from Zoetis
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, February 24, 2021 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that Zoetis, the leading animal health company, has joined TSC to focus on increasing supply chain transparency and sustainability with U.S.
2/25/2021, Bentonville, AR
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released today the Plastic Film Management Insights case study featuring local Northwest Arkansas recycler, Marck Recycling.
2/16/2021, Scottsdale, AZ
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released today the THESIS Industry Insights: Packaging report using data from TSC’s The Sustainability Insight System (THESIS).
New methodology, released in Nature Climate Change, provides greater detail into forest carbon fluxes
As consumers seek products that cause minimal environmental harm and bring about positive social impact, and as awareness of supply chain impact grows.
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released today the Resource Guide on Sustainable Animal Feed, a digital resource created to help companies in the animal feed supply chain
Article from Supply and Demand Chain Executive
Experts throughout the supply chain stress how the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has fast-tracked numerous emerging trends, one of the most important being sustainability.
Article from: K•COE ISOM
K·Coe Isom is excited to announce that sustainability advisors Zach Pinto and Lisa Becker have completed the training and testing required to become credentialed as The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) Trained Service Providers for THESIS.
10/29/2020, Santa Cruz/Phoenix
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and SupplyShift announce today that Lenovo and PMI Worldwide are recommitting to their corporate sustainability goals by publicly releasing their THESIS scores and rankings for the first time.
Article from Arkansas Democrat Gazette
FAYETTEVILLE — Northwest Arkansas should expand recycling to keep more of the entire process in the region, from collection to companies that buy the products, according to a report released Wednesday by the Northwest Arkansas Council.
HMTX joins TSC to bring focus to their efforts to create more sustainable flooring options for customers
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, September 28, 2020 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that HMTX Industries has joined as the first flooring company member.
Led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund in partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the U.S.
Article from The New York Times
All of our tech products will one day become obsolete, but here are some strategies to buying gadgets that you can enjoy for many years.
A guest article by Robert Anson, Director of International Business Development for Henkel & Board Member of The Sustainability Consortium
As I look back on two decades with Henkel, I find it interesting that a completely unexpected career trajectory has brought me some of the greatest satisfaction.
by Kevin Dooley, Jacob Bethem, William Campbell and Carole Mars
This is the first in a series of articles called “Steps to Circularity” that will explore a variety of different projects and viewpoints connecting the business of recycling to the wider circular economy movement.
First-of-its-kind report from Farm Journal’s Trust In Food initiative and The Sustainability Consortium explores the complex relationship among farmers, their operation’s production data and conservation.
The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting the global supply chain and causing uncertainty across sectors.
BOSTON, April 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 farmer families, announces it is the first major fruit cooperative worldwide to achieve 100% sustainably grown verification for its Ocean Spray cranberries through the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform’s (SAI Platform) Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA).
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, April 23, 2020 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that Green Field Solutions (GFS), a new business unit of the International Companies of St.
Article from Harvard Business Review
As procurement teams struggle to cope with the Covid-19 global pandemic, most have been trying to keep up with the news about global response measures and have been working diligently to secure raw materials and components and protect supply lines.
There are many reasons why companies should strive to make their supply chains a little more earth-friendly.
Article by World Resources Institute
Global tree cover loss reached record highs in 2016 and 2017.
The university has new opportunities to champion greener consumer products, supply chains and commercial trade, as the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability on Jan.
TSC and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability to explore improvements in digital agriculture, conservation finance, sustainability research projects, metrics and policy.
If you’ve ever performed an act of kindness like picking up someone else’s litter or donating to a charity, you’ll have experienced that little rush of dopamine that comes with doing a good deed.
Article by PRINTWEAR
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), an organization dedicated to improving the sustainability of consumer products, launches a Wastewater 101 Toolbox to educate the textile industry on the causes, impact, and treatment of wastewater.
Article from Apparel Resources
Wastewater 101 is the new tool box that will help the textile industry players understand the cause, impact and treatment of wastewater and thus improve the wastewater footprint.
Free resource aims to help the textile industry reduce wastewater issues in textile manufacturing.
Article from Confectionery News
The newly-formed Retailer Cocoa Collaboration strongly supports CFI and the Frameworks for Action as a landmark multi-stakeholder initiative for protecting and restoring forests in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Colombia and other areas.
Podcast by Walton Biz Talk
Companies have the opportunity to enact major change to improve sustainability on a global scale.
The 2019 Impact Report of The Sustainability Consortium’s (TSC) performance of consumer products worldwide, shows an impressive 30.5% improvement from the baseline year of 2016.
News from GreenBiz
Growing public demand for ingredient transparency across the marketplace is prompting regulators to require manufacturers and retailers to publicly communicate the ingredients in everything from personal care and baby products to cosmetics and cleaning products.
Article from InsideEPA
A global non-profit organization that assesses the sustainability of consumer products is awarding widely used lead-acid batteries one of its highest scores as the most recycled consumer product, a significant finding that experts suggest could be a model for other sectors as they weigh steps to participate in the emerging circular economy.
Article by AZ Central
I wrote last week about my friends’ reusable straws and how I suddenly felt responsible for every sea turtle with a plastic drinking straw stuck up its nostril.
“Reaching Sustainability Through Transparency” shows a continued trend towards increased transparency by suppliers answering KPIs as a part of TSC’s THESIS Index
September 4, 2019, Scottsdale, AZ – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released its 2019 Impact Report, “Reaching Sustainability Through Transparency”, online today showcasing year-over-year trends in sustainability reporting based on the key performance indicators (KPIs) that drive TSC’s THESIS Index.
Podcast from GreenBiz
The green finance revolution (17:07)
This week, GreenBiz welcomed veteran sustainable investing advocate Mark Tulay to oversee development of sessions on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, measurement and sustainable investing at February’s GreenBiz 20 event, as well as the accompanying GreenFin Summit, in Phoenix.
News from GreenBiz
Sustainability partnerships among corporations, nonprofits, academics and other strange bedfellows come and go.
News from Sustainable Brands
Heads up to retailers and suppliers: The Sustainability Consortium has moved its measurement and reporting system over to a new platform.
News from PRI’s The World
Across the globe, we’ve developed a coffee addiction, and we’re not just talking about dependence on our morning pick-me-up.
New platform in partnership with SupplyShift will encourage suppliers, buyers and retailers to have a reporting “conversation”, improving insights and actions toward more transparent supply chains.
News from WholeFoods Magazine
Scottsdale, AZ — The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced in a press release that Sprouts Farmers Market has joined as a new member.
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that Sprouts Farmers Market has joined as a new TSC member.
TSC, cofounded by University of Arkansas and ASU, helps ensure that consumer products are made with sustainable guidelines for a growing population.
Partnership delivers technology platform to make on-farm sustainability data easy to collect and share.
News from AP News
NEW YORK & HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apr 17, 2019–HSBC and Walmart today announced the roll-out of a sustainable supply chain finance programme that pegs a supplier’s financing rate to its sustainability performance.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, April 17, 2019 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that Zoned Properties® has joined as a member.
Scottsdale, AZ, March 4 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released today a landmark report that will help ease the burden of reporting sustainability data for growers and food companies.
News from TBP
By Jeff Della Rosa, Talk Business & Politics
Mary Beth Brooks had been president and CEO of Bank of Fayetteville for 11 years when the bank was sold in November 2015 to Stuttgart-based Farmers and Merchants Bank.
TSC retailer member, Walgreens, is committed to engaging its suppliers using TSC’s product category sustainability toolkits.
News from BNN Bloomberg
By Corinne Gretler and Deena Shanker, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) — Fill Rover’s bowl with crickets and Asian carp, and keep the grass-fed beef steaks for yourself — it’s better for the environment.
Published on December 14 on E-Scrap News
The e-scrap industry in recent years has witnessed declining volumes of used electronics collected and recycled under legislated state programs.
By Elizabeth Sturcken
Managing Director, EDF+Business
Published Wednesday, December 5 on EDF+Business
I have helped Walmart, Starbucks and other companies get started with sustainability.
News from GreenBiz
By Euan Murray
Chief Executive, The Sustainability Consortium
There is plenty to panic about working in sustainability, and nothing is more fear-inducing than seeing cleared land where there once were trees.
News from Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
In person or in pictures – felled trees where a forest once stood can be alarming to witness.
Apples, Computers, Diapers, Peaches, Hair Coloring Products and Melons Reported as Highest Scoring Categories on the 2017 Sustainability Index
The Sustainability Consortium releases its list of highest scoring product categories.
More than a fourth of global forest loss from 2001 to 2015 is permanent deforestation from commodity-driven agriculture, meaning these areas likely will not be forested again.
News from WRI | Article by Nancy Harris, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Mikaela Weisse and Alyssa Barrett
The narrative is not a new one: The world is losing tree cover at an alarming rate, and the effects on biodiversity, the climate and indigenous communities cannot be overstated.
News from BBC | Article by Edison Veiga From Rome to BBC News Brazil
In the last decades, the effort to preserve the environment seems to have been incorporated, to a greater or lesser degree, by governments, companies and citizens.
News from Science | Article By Erik Stokstad
A new analysis of global forest loss—the first to examine not only where forests are disappearing, but also why—reveals just how much industrial agriculture is contributing to the loss.
News from PRI’S The World
August 13, 2018
You go to the coffee shop and take your coffee to go.
News from EthicalCorp
July 19, 2018
In-depth workshop discussion from The Responsible Business Summit Europe
Changing your business strategy will require your suppliers to change too.
We debate an age-old chicken-and-egg question when we get together with other sustainability leaders: Are sustainable businesses more successful? Or are successful businesses more sustainable? And, honestly, does it really matter which came first?
Sustainability and good business go hand in hand, whether sustainability drives business results or is the result of good business practices. No matter how you cut it, sustainable practices and transparent supply chains help everyone — from businesses to suppliers to consumers and everyone in between.
“Transparent Supply Chains for Better Business” shows a sharp increase in transparency by suppliers answering TSC KPIs as a part of The Sustainability Index
News from WAFB
June 29, 2018
Connecting to the Farm Report Helps Companies Build Regenerative and Thriving Agricultural Supply Chains
Today, Pure Strategies released the report, Connecting to the Farm, to outline best practices for engaging at the farm level to help accelerate corporate efforts that encourage and support progress to more sustainable agricultural production of products and raw materials.
The BPC scorecard is a breakthrough for quantifying product sustainability, or the degree to which a product does what it is supposed to do without harming the user, the makers, or the planet.
Retailers including CVS Health, Sephora, Walgreens, Target and Walmart are embracing the Sustainability Consortium’s new rating system for beauty and personal care products.
As a leading global supplier of consumer products, Spectrum Brands Holdings will use TSC tools to track improvement and continue implementing its sustainability strategy.
May 2, 2018
By Jessica Ginger, The Sustainability Consortium
At The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), we are rolling up our sleeves and digging deep into years’ worth of data that represents consumer products worth over $200Bn.
News from Environmental Leader
April 18, 2018
Wrangler analyzed dozens of scientific studies to show that sustainable cotton farming techniques improve crop yields and reduce costs while slashing greenhouse gas emissions.
News from Walmart Sustainability
Continued progress underlines company’s aspirational goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and value chain.
Phosphorus is a nutrient crucial to growing crops, but it washes off farmland in the rain and travels to our waterways, where it can cause major pollution issues.
APL Logistics aims to incorporate TSC tools and activities into larger sustainability strategy and to focus on supply chain optimization and reduction of air freight.
News from Business Wire
Cool Farm Tool Adds Depth to Agrible’s Predictive Analytics Platform to Help Growers Make the Best Decisions Possible and Improve Productivity Globally
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In a move designed to enhance its services on a global scale, Agrible has partnered with Cool Farm Alliance (CFA) to bring Agrible’s Sustainable Sourcing platform to more growers around the world.
News from Business Wire
February 13, 2018
A coalition of leading vehicle battery manufacturers, recyclers, retailers and users dedicated to the responsible manufacturing, use and reuse of vehicle batteries launched an initiative today to recover 2 million more batteries with the goal of achieving a recycling rate of 100%.
News from Trust in Foods
February 15, 2018
Sustainability reporting is something many farmers already do, and it’s a necessary part of being in the food business today.
The ASU and University of Arkansas organization works with companies to define, develop, deliver more sustainable products
Most people have heard of blood diamonds.
News from Greenbiz
By Euan Murray on December 19, 2017
I expected 2017 would be an exciting year when I took over as chief executive of the Sustainability Consortium (TSC).
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, December, 12, 2017—Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has selected The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) as a recipient of an SDCE Green Supply Chain Award for 2017.
News from Agfunder News
November 17, 2017
Consumers and investors today are looking closer than ever at the food they buy (or buy into) with concerns about pesticide use, water consumption, animal welfare, and biodiversity among others issues.
News from Environment Guru
By Elizabeth Sturcken on November 30, 2017
Target has joined other retailers on the right path to developing a robust science-based policy for tackling greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and supply chain, creating more momentum toward action on climate by leading companies.
News from Supermarket News
November 14, 2017
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) said it has received a $375,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation for its efforts to improve reporting of sustainability metrics by agricultural firms.
TSC’s thought leaders gathered to talk about how to make real change in sustainability hotspots, at the first-ever Idea Forum Retreat.
HSBC Bank Joins TSC to Bring Financial Expertise, Advancing Sustainable Business Practices Across the Consumer Products Industry
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, November 15, 2017 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that HSBC Bank USA has joined as their first member from the financial services industry.
TSC and the Walmart Foundation seek to create solutions to help farmers with easier information flow to manufacturers and retailers, improving sustainability and business decision-making through improved communication
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, November 13, 2017 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced their collaboration today with the Walmart Foundation to tackle challenges to help farmers report information more easily to manufacturers and retailers.
News from Wageningen UR
October 27, 2017
Cautious estimates by the International Labour Organization suggest that some 25 million people worldwide are victims of forced labour.
ExxonMobil To Assist In Developing Innovative Solutions To Sustainability Issues, Including Product Safety, Food Waste, And Plastics Recycling
Satellite Data Shows Record-High Levels Of Forest Loss In 2016; Saving Forests Requires A Massive Shift In Investment From Activities Driving Deforestation To Those Designed To Protect, Restore And Replant Trees
News from Medium
By Tom Quaife on October 11, 2017
Christy Slay, researcher at The Sustainability Consortium and the University of Arkansas, is facilitating discussions between farmers, processors and retailers over sustainability, which is a good thing for exports.
Written by: Christopher Cooke, The Sustainability Consortium
Since 2009, The Sustainability Consortium has worked towards making the business case for the production of more sustainable consumer products.
News from E-Scrap
By Matt Mace on October 4, 2017
Companies such as Unilever, Mars and PepsiCo are part of a new collaborative partnership aiming to develop free science-based decision tools that improve farm-level sustainability reporting metrics and data collection.
News from E-Scrap
By Carole Mars on September 19, 2017
As a researcher at an organization called The Sustainability Consortium, I was part of the group that last year published the “Electronics Recycling Landscape” report.
TSC and CFA signed a memorandum of understanding to help food and beverage companies better measure and manage GHG emissions, water, and biodiversity in agriculture supply chains
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, October 2, 2017 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and The Cool Farm Alliance (CFA) signed a memorandum of understanding to improve alignment and reporting of farm-level metrics data.
As a commitment to Conservation International’s Sustainable Coffee Challenge, TSC creates open access to coffee toolkit and KPIs originally only available to TSC members
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, September 29, 2017 – As part of The Sustainability Consortium’s commitment to the coffee sector and the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, TSC is releasing its “toolkit” of products in the coffee category into the public domain.
News from Kroger
September 19, 2017
“Moonshot” Initiative Aims to End Hunger in Communities and Eliminate Waste in the Company by 2025
CINCINNATI, September 19, 2017 – The Kroger Co.
News from HCPress.com
By Jesse Wood on September 11, 2017 at 6:45 PM
The Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University held its third annual Business for Good summit on Friday that concluded with a keynote speech from Bobby Kennedy Jr.
News from PBS
By Marcus Woo on Tue, 12 Sep 2017
As if saying hello, the robot arm waves an iPhone at you.
MCLEAN, VA (September 6, 2017) — Mars CEO Grant F.
News from Triple Pundit
September 5, 2017
Image courtesy of Quantis
Committed companies, non-profits, scientists and diverse sustainability stakeholders teamed up with Quantis to deliver a groundbreaking guidance on accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from land use change, which is expected to shape the future of climate, forestry and agriculture.
OHSA becomes member of TSC among growing demands from Chinese businesses for greener supply chain and chemicals management.
News from Battery Council International
August 14, 2017
What do computers, lead batteries, household paper products, leafy vegetables and diapers have in common?
News from University Chronicle
Sustainable Brands® recently announced program details for the upcoming conference, SB’17 Copenhagen, running October 30th – November 1st at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark.
PSI and TSC’s mutual membership brings over 500 potato growers and key retail partners together to create more sustainable growing practices for potatoes.
News from Supply Chain Management Review
By Patrick Burnson, Executive Director | Posted July 31, 2017
When the Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released its 2017 Impact Report last July, supply chain managers were presented with evidence that the act of integrating sustainability into every decision and process in their network helps companies avoid risks to their bottom lines and creates more sustainable products for the environment.
News from Agrinos
The Sustainability Consortium identifies the use of biostimulants in grains, oilseeds, produce, nuts and other specialty crops as an improvement opportunity for nutrient management, crop yield and optimizing agricultural land management
DAVIS, Calif.
News from Sustainable Brands
Integrating sustainability measurement, tools and practices into supply chains allows businesses to create more sustainable consumer products and avoid risks to their bottom line says a new report from The Sustainability Consortium (TSC).
“The Call for Collective Action Across Supply Chains” provides evidence that the act of integrating sustainability into every decision and process in supply chains helps companies avoid risks to their bottom lines and creates more sustainable products for the environment
July 19, 2017, Scottsdale, AZ – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released its 2017 Impact Report, “The Call for Collective Action Across Supply Chains”, online today showcasing data and case studies that confirm that when suppliers integrate sustainability measurement, tools, and practices into their supply chains, they create more sustainable consumer products and avoid risks to their bottom lines.
Posted on July 11, 2017
News from 4-traders
In addition to enhancing the sustainability of our retail operations, we work with others to help address environmental and social issues in our product supply chains.
By Bowling Green, Ky.
Published on June 29, 2017
News from Innovation in Textiles
By Kevin Dooley on June 28, 2017
News from LinkedIn
Photo credit: Kevin Dooley
On June 1, 2017, Donald Trump announced the U.S.
By Ronnie Garrett on June 22, 2017
News from Supply & Demand Chain Executive
In June, President Trump announced his intentions to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord.
News from The Green Living Guy®
Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg
Bloomberg BNA — Multinational corporations say they are increasingly taking on a regulatory role in their supply chains to improve performance on environment, health and safety (EHS) issues, especially in developing countries where government oversight can be weak.
By: Susanne Freidberg, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College
Abstract
Over the past several years, many of the companies collectively known as Big Food have launched ambitious programs to assess and improve the sustainability of their raw material supply chains.
Digital Platform Helps Business Better Understand, Implement Closed-Loop Systems
WASHINGTON, D.C.
By: Euan Murray, CEO The Sustainability Consortium
The Sustainability Consortium held its 8th TSC Summit last month in Washington D.C.
Agrible, leaders in sustainable sourcing and responsibly grown crops, creates software that helps growers track sustainability to improve supply chains through new TSC membership
SCOTTSDALE, AZ, APRIL 28, 2017 – The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced today that Agrible, Inc.
In recognition of concerns over the hazards associated with batteries, a new coalition was announced today to develop best practices for managing vehicle, industrial and stationary batteries.
April 17, 2017 — The Sustainable Coffee Challenge, a coalition of over 65 partners including corporations, governments, NGOs and research organizations, today announced the first four Collective Action Networks to further its effort to make coffee the first sustainable agricultural product in the world.
At a time when climate leadership from the federal government is decidedly lacking, today’s launch of Walmart’s Project Gigaton is a cause for celebration.
Abstract
This article traces the strategic initiatives that Walmart undertook over the last decade to implement its ambitious vision of selling more sustainable products.
TSC joins measurement advisory committee to support credible and practical methodology with NGO partners to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by one gigaton.
Farmers should see the benefits of complying with standards for sustainability because of the long term pay off, program leader of the Agribusiness Group, Jon Manhire says.
TSC kicked off another amazing year as a premier partner with Greenbiz at their annual sustainability conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.
