At Interface, employee suggestions to minimize material usage and improve the efficiency of equipment and processes resulted in $372 million in cumulative avoided waste cost from 1995 to 2007.
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Timberland: Doing the Right Thing
Posted on Oct 27 2009 by Diana Rivenburgh
On the same day I posted the blog on “Deforestation and Your Supply Chain”, Earthkeepers posted a statement from Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland’s CEO in an Update From the Amazon. The deforestation referred to by Greenpeace is caused by cattle ranchers who cut down the rain forest to raise livestock primarily for food. Less than 10% of the proceeds of the cow are for the leather sold as raw materials to suppliers who turn the hides into products such as footwear.
