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LCA: A Tool to Understand Environmental Impact
Life cycle assessment (LCA) has emerged as an essential tool for understanding the environmental impact of a product throughout its lifespan. NatureWorks LLC is hosting a free, one-hour web seminar to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of life cycle methodologies, explain how to use a lifecycle study, and describe how companies such as The Coca-Cola Company incorporate life cycle information in its material decision-making processes.
On this webcast you'll hear a panel of sustainability experts including: Dr. Ramani Narayan, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from Michigan State University, Erwin Vink, Environmental Affairs Manager for NatureWorks LLC and Scott Vitters, Director of Sustainable Packaging, for The Coca-Cola Company. This panel will discuss life cycle methodologies, and explain how to use lifecycle data in your own sustainability efforts.
Using Life Cycle Data for Material Sourcing Decisions
October 2, 2007
9:00 a.m. CDT, 2:00 p.m. GMT
Register today!
The End of Life Vision
 NatureWorks LLC has just published our End of Life Vision for NatureWorks® biopolymer on our website. This vision links to additional reference material created by NatureWorks on topics such as composting, landfill and recycling. The end-of-life vision for NatureWorks® biopolymer in the long term is to maintain a journey to zero waste – keeping the polymer, regardless of form, out of the landfill and being able to recycle into the same use or higher valued use if possible. For additional information on our vision, our journey today and the roadmap ahead of us, read on...
Industrial Biotechnology Journal Publishes NatureWorks' New Eco-Profile
The latest eco-profile of NatureWorks LLC's plant-to-pellet polymer process shows 85 percent fewer actual carbon dioxide emissions and 50 percent less actual fossil fuel use in 2006, compared to a similar analysis based on mathematical calculations from three years earlier. The peer-reviewed research data which appeared in the March 2007 Industrial Biotechnology journal, promises a further shrinking of the company's environmental footprint in the future. Read more.
Come see us at these industry events!
SEPTEMBER
SPC Members Meeting
Date: September 25-27, 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Milan Fashion Week – C.L.A.S.S.
Date: September 27-30, 2007
Location: Milan, Italy
NRC - National Recycling Coalition 2007
Date: September 16-19, 2007
Location: Denver, CO
The International Citrus & Beverage Conference (ICBC)
Date: September 18-21, 2007
Location: Clearwater Beach, Florida
Partner Blue Lake Citrus, Mandy Stage, presenting
OCTOBER
Polymer Foams 2007
Date: October 2-3, 2007
Location: Newark, NJ
Presentation: Oct. 3, 9:00 am
"Foam extrusion and thermoforming of polylactide resin," Dr. James Nangeroni, Senior Applications Development Engineer, NatureWorks LLC
Hortifair
Date: October 9-12, 2007
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rite Conference
Date: October 10, 2007
Location: London, UK
Worldwide Food Expo
Date: October 24-27, 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics
Date: October 29-November 1, 2007
Location: Shanghai, China
NatureWorks representatives will be available at the following booths: Chia Her, New Wide, Fountain Set
NOVEMBER
Good And Green - The Green Marketing Conference 2007
Date: November 29-30, 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
NatureWorks will host a panel discussion with brand partner participation and conference creative exhibit.
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Ask the Expert
 Composting is a method of waste disposal that allows organic materials to be recycled into a product that can be used as a valuable soil amendment. With the increase in organics collection in certain regions of the United States, and other economic changes happening in the waste collection industry in the past three to five years, NatureWorks LLC has recently worked with Integrated Waste Management Consulting, LLC, an outside consulting firm, to update our United States composting map. There were a number of changes including the addition of sites in the Northeast and California. We hope this information is useful to you and helps increase the rate of landfill diversion by taking valuable bio-waste like food, paper, organics and closing the loop through nature's carbon cycle.
 For a current list of US Composting Facilities who can accept articles made from NatureWorks biopolymer, click here.
What a Month!
Inspired by Earth Day (April 22), this year's Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month event ran through June 5th, World Environmental Day. Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month is a series of global events focused on responsible innovation. This year, which marks the third annual event for NatureWorks LLC, Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month showcased a wide range of partners in plastics & packaging applications in addition to the existing fibers applications (apparel, home textiles, and more). With the participation of 51 brands, and more than 7000 retail locations in 12 countries, NatureWorks LLC would like to thank all of our partners who participated in Ingeo NatureWorks Earth Month 2007 and made it such a smashing success!
For an overview of the event, please see:
Missed us?
Missed the LOHAS 11 Forum panel discussion led by Snehal Desai, Chief Marketing Officer, NatureWorks LLC? No problem. You can now view the presentations online from partners such Sony Corp., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Blue Planet Water and Fox River Mills Inc.. Check out the presentation below to see how each of these companies tell, first-hand, their own applications of NatureWorks® biopolymer and Ingeo™ fiber and their uses and benefits in each of their respective industries.
 LOHAS 11 Forum Features Responsible Innovation Comes To Everyday Life - A Panel Discussion Presented by NatureWorks LLC for Ingeo™ NatureWorks® Earth Month 2007
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