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Closed-Loop PLA Recycling Achieves Industrial-Scale Success in Europe

The consortium confirmed that PLA can be effectively sorted from mixed plastic waste streams using existing technologies before being chemically broken down into lactic acid and rebuilt into high-quality PLA with properties equivalent to virgin material.

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Sedex's Compliance Tool to Navigate 8 Major Sustainability Regulations

The tool covers eight major regulations, and is designed for compliance, procurement, sustainability and supply chain teams.

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Fuel Efficiency

Diesel Prices Fall, But Surcharge Lag Creates New Carrier Challenges

Magnus Technologies

Despite the July decline, diesel remained 31.14% above July 2025 levels, and included two weeks with the national average above $5 per gallon.

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5 Critical Design Factors for Successful Warehouse Expansion

Whether you’re designing a greenfield or an expansion, here are five overlooked details that can make a facility more flexible or more fragile than expected.

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How Rethinking Food Packaging Can Cut Carbon Emissions

Changing packaging cannot be to the detriment of the product it is protecting. In essence, don’t shift the problem and thereby make it worse.

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2026 Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award Celebrates Next Generation of Female Logistics Leaders

This year's winners are making a difference in the supply chain, both personally and professionally. Let's meet the winners from the 2026 Women in Supply Chain Forum™ Award.

Carbon Footprint

Is Near-Zero the New Net-Zero?

Near-zero targets require companies to cut down emissions to the lowest realistic level.

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Solar Distribution Projects Lead Large Project Commodity for Second Consecutive Quarter: PopCapacity Report

Solar remained the dominant commodity for a second straight quarter.

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Predictive Waste: How Connected Store Data Helps Retailers Reduce Food Waste

Retailers are shifting from treating markdowns as an end-of-day clean-up to a proactive margin lever earlier in the day. Here's how.

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How Rising Fertilizer Costs Impact Produce Prices

That is the core issue facing growers, businesses and consumers alike: produce prices are starting to rise from the logistics costs companies are managing today.

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Waste Reduction

2 Waste Management Megatrends Reshaping Food Demand

Measuring and understanding actual consumption is key to reducing waste, but no one is standing over a waste bin looking at what is going into it, let alone how much, what is being wasted, or why.

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Cropin and Google Cloud Launch Agentic AI Platform for Food and Agriculture

Dubbed the first Agentic AI platform for food and agriculture, this solution is trained on the complex, real-world interactions between crops, climate, weather, soil, geography, agronomic practices, and global supply chains, rather than generic internet data.

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