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American Chain Restaurants Had a Tough Year and 2019 Looks Worse
After facing stagnant sales and weak customer traffic in 2018, U.S. restaurants will encounter more headwinds next year, including rising food and wage costs.
U.K. Plans to Bill Packaging Makers for Their Plastic Pollution
U.K. packaging manufacturers will have to pay for the full cost of dealing with the waste their goods produce under new government plans.
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Podcast | Blockchain in Action: Tracking Vanilla
The latest flavor of blockchain technology is vanilla, and the stakes are high: Vanilla is the world’s second most expensive spice — with a price higher than that of silver.
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Q&A | When to Embrace Sustainability — and When Not To
When is sustainability an investment? And when is it a cost? MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi shares some answers from his new book.
In Cancer-Linked Packaging Test, Whole Foods Ranks Worst
Whole Foods Market, hailed for its high standards for healthy food, ranked worst in a study of five major U.S. grocery chains for chemicals it uses in packaging.
Once-Profitable Holiday Trash Surge Could Now Bury Struggling Recyclers
Americans generate 25 percent more trash during the holidays and, historically, that’s been a gift to the companies that sell it to recycling processors overseas.
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How Used Vegetable Oil Could Power World Trade
Waste vegetable oil is the latest in a list of fuel innovations from a transportation industry that’s under intense pressure to lower its carbon footprint.
Out With the Old: Ensuring the Proper Disposal of I.T. Assets
Talk of technology almost always centers on the latest and greatest piece of hardware. But what about the stuff it’s replacing?
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Lithium and Cobalt Costs Are Hindering Battery-Powered Car Sales
High prices for lithium and cobalt will hinder sales growth in battery-powered vehicles the next few years, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.
A New Global Rulebook: Here’s What to Watch at UN Climate Talks
Envoys from almost 200 countries convene this week in Katowice, Poland, for an annual conference on reining in global warming.
1204 A New Global Rulebook
In Global Race to Clean Power, Low-Income Countries Charge Ahead
Developing countries have added more clean power capacity than fossil fuel generation for the first time ever.
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As Consumer Tastes Change, Farmers Scramble to Switch to Pastured Eggs
The bar is rising for what’s considered a happy chicken, sparking the hottest trend in the market: the pasture-raised egg.
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