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Energy efficiency in plastic processing: practical worksheets for industry.
Tangram Technology Ltd. (
www.tangram.co.uk
).
14
The company is Harbec Inc., and the turbine is located at the Wayne
IndustrialSustainabilityPark,builtin2008inruralNewYork.In2013,it
installed an 850 kW wind turbine with significant savings in their energy
costs.
15
Data
from
ExxonMobil
Corporation.
Available
at
16
Ball Corporation also reduced the weight of their steel cans by 33% over a
25-year period. Its sustainability goals are set in terms of explicit energy
efficiency and GHG goals. However, they have not as yet switched to
BPA-free liners.
17
Closed-looprecyclingheremeansbottle-to-bottlerecycling.Onehundred
percent post-consumer recycled PET was cleared by the FDA for direct
food contact in March of 2009. See, for instance, IPF Inc. (2009).
18
Levi Strauss and Co. markets Waste-Less jeans. Others such as
Patagonia, a manufacturer of outdoor clothing, and Puma have also
incorporated recycled PET into clothing.
19
Estée Lauder Company through its Origins brand encourages consumers
to return postconsumer packages to the store and compensates them for
the effort.
20
In January 2011, Eden Foods switched from metal cans to amber glass
jars for high-acid organic crushed tomatoes and tomato sauces to avoid
BPA (McTigue Pierce and Caliendo, 2012).
21
Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and Unilever.
22
The first successful large-scale production of a polypropylene carbonate
(PPC) polymer using waste carbon dioxide (CO
2
) was conducted by
Novomer in collaboration with specialty chemical manufacturer
Albemarle Corporation (Orangeburg, SC) in May 2013
