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Amazon to streamline product packaging
Sustainable Life Media - November 8, 2008
Amazon.com has kicked off a "Frustration-Free Packaging" program designed to make it easier for customers to extricate products from their shipping materials. The new simplified packaging is expected to use less material as well.
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The evolving green challenge for manufacturing
Environmental Leader - October 14, 2008
IBM's Bruce Anderson, global GM for the electronics industry, says now is the time to broaden the conversation about green manufacturing to include research, product design and procurement, as well as manufacturing.
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MPI goes green with Baraka
Green Report - September 3, 2008
MPI will release its first DVD with eco-friendly packaging on Oct. 28. A restored version of the 1992 documentary Baraka will be delivered on standard-definition DVD and Blu-ray in GPack 100% recyclable cases.
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Swedish manufacturer offers green case
Green Report - June 23, 2008
Another manufacturer has introduced an environmentally friendly DVD package.
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Incredible shrinking packages
New York Times - May 23, 2008
Marketers usually boast about what they have added to their products. Increasingly, though, they are bragging about what they are taking out — by cutting down on packaging and its impact on the environment.
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New solution for pollution: CDs and DVDs
MSNBC - April 8, 2008
In the future, all those DVDs you buy could be made from air pollution.
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Studios see opportunity to turn green to gold
Green Report - April 3, 2008
LOS ANGELES—The DVD industry took a step toward developing standards for eco-friendly DVD manufacturing, packaging, shipping and marketing at the first Green Media Summit here yesterday.
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DEG unveils Green Entertainment Awards
Green Report - April 2, 2008
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group handed out seven Green Entertainment Awards today at the inaugural Green Media Summit, held at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Gaiam greens packaging with Ecotray
Green Report - January 25, 2008
Special interest supplier and green goods purveyor Gaiam will begin using the fully recyclable Ecotray for a number of its health and lifestyle releases.
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Nexpak offers reduced packaging for multi-disc sets
Green Report - January 25, 2008
Nexpak has extended its StackPak product line, offering two new disc case sizes designed to cut down on the amount of materials used to package multiple DVD and CD sets.
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