Tag: sustainability

Sustainability is gaining importance worldwide, and more and more food and beverage industry leaders are incorporating planet- and climate-friendly initiatives into their long-term strategy. According to this 2022 Market Research.com report, enterprises large and small are seeking to reduce their environmental impact in four key ways: through sourcing and packaging choices, by producing more plant-forward […]

Hydration is paramount to our health, but sustainable hydration is paramount to our environment. The EPA estimates over 69% of plastic container and packaging waste in the United States is landfilled, leaving the recycling rate of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) soft drink and water bottles staggeringly low. To combat this environmental challenge, many beverage businesses are […]

Achieving tasty, healthy, and sustainable hydration can’t be done without a technical overhaul—especially when solving the touchless challenge. Britvic, a UK-based soft drinks company, is the largest supplier of branded still soft drinks and the second largest supplier of branded carbonated soft drinks in the UK, as well as an industry leader in Brazil, Ireland, […]

What does the future of air travel look like? We enjoyed a closeup view of what’s in store at the Future Travel Experience EMEA, a gathering of air transport’s digital and innovation leaders held this year in Dublin from June 7–9. A gold sponsor of the event, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was there in force, […]

During our recent 2022 Industry Innovators: Retail & CPG virtual event, AWS’ Justin Honaman met up with Seth Goldman, executive chairman of Beyond Meat and co-founder of PLNT Burger and Eat the Change®, to discuss Goldman’s background in the food and beverage industry as well as the keys to innovation he discovered along the way. […]

Learn more about the sessions and speakers featured in Track 4: Sustainability at this year’s Industry Innovators Conference for Retail & CPG 2022. You’ve heard of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG). These nonfinancial factors are taking the world by storm, but is your organization actively applying them? Sustainability is no […]

More than half of the global population now lives in cities. With this number constantly growing, cities are looking for ways to introduce more sustainable transportation solutions. MOIA, a young mobility company within the Volkswagen Group, addresses these challenges by providing clean and efficient urban transportation services. They currently operate in the cities of Hamburg […]

Following a year of labor shortages, supply chain issues, and high inflation, industry leaders can’t ignore the fact that shoppers and consumers have changed. They don’t want what they wanted 5 years ago; they don’t even want what they wanted 12 months ago, leaving innovators to question: How can we best serve shoppers and consumers […]

Sustainability is one of the defining issues of our time, and companies all over the globe are being called on to step up and confront the challenge in the context of the climate emergency. The fact is employees want to work for—and customers want to buy from—companies actively striving for sustainability. According to the 2021 […]

While climate change is the defining issue of our generation, we don’t yet have all of the technological solutions that we need to address this impending crisis. Without a major acceleration in new clean energy technology innovation, net-zero emissions targets are not achievable. The technologies available today support less than 40 percent of the CO2 […]