British retail grocery giant Tesco Plc will offer fresh food packaging for meat and poultry from 95-percent food-safe recycled content, which is typically recovered from plastic (PET) water bottles from household waste. The packaging, dubbed "Rfresh Elite," is from LINPAC; Tesco is working with its key supplier, Hilton Food Group, to bring the meat and poultry to market in the recycled packaging.

Target has announced it will begin to phase out use of polystyrene foam packing in its e-commerce operations.

What's at stake when an organization's supply chain lacks transparency? Just about everything, if you ask David Meyer, a senior consultant with BSI EHS Services and Solutions. Companies that don't make an effort to develop value-added transparency and proactive collaboration throughout their supply chains are putting their businesses on the line.

Apple suppliers for the first time achieved 100 percent UL Zero Waste to Landfill validation for all final assembly sites in China, according to the company's 2017 Supplier Responsibility progress report.

In a move that Intelligent Energy says will make supply chains more efficient, the clean energy company has signed a deal with PINC to supply air cooled fuel cell systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Construction and design professionals will likely have an easier time finding and using sustainable building materials thanks to efforts from two flooring manufacturers: a new product catalog by Tarkett and new product-specific environmental product declarations (EPDs) from Gerflor USA.

Ford is expanding its program that helps suppliers improve their environmental management, growing the Partnership for A Cleaner Environment (PACE) program company participants to more than 40 in two years.

VF Corporation, whose brands include The North Face, Timberland, Wrangler and Lee, released its first-ever Forest Derived Materials Policy, which sets purchasing guidelines and commits the company and its suppliers to using sustainable forest materials and products.

The key to a sustainable supply chain is trust between customers and suppliers - and this can also create more profitable supplier relationships, according to Suhas Apte and Jagdish Sheth, the authors of The Sustainability Edge: How To Drive Top-Line Growth With Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking.