Emily Chasan | The Seattle Times

A forklift truck driver moves bales of recycled cardboard at a paper mill in the U.K. The paper recycling industry, it turns out, has suddenly found itself in demand-and maybe just in the nick of time.

October 14, 2019 at 3:01 am

American consumers might save paper recycling

Trying to get ahead of regulations in countries that ban or tax plastic packaging, some product manufacturers are turning to recycled paper for the first...

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June 9, 2019 at 4:01 pm

Starbucks bets London airport can crack the reusable-cup code

Only one Starbucks outpost will be participating in the trial, charging customers 5 pence for disposable cups while offering a reusable one for free.

FILE – In this May 29, 2018, file photo, a barista reaches for an empty cup at a Starbucks in the Pike Place Market in Seattle. Starbucks has opened its first U.S. “signing store” to better serve hard of hearing customers. The store in Washington, D.C. is just blocks from Galludet Univerisity, one of the nation’s oldest universities serving deaf and hard of hearing students. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) NYBZ231 NYBZ231

April 28, 2019 at 1:50 pm

Berkeley, others target a new environmental scourge: the to-go coffee cup

Some 40 million cups a year are discarded each year in the Bay Area city, which is assessing a 25-cent-per-cup surcharge as companies continue to...

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December 29, 2018 at 8:25 am

What investors get wrong about backing women-led businesses

A study by Calvert Impact Capital found that diversity in senior staff had a greater impact than the number of female directors or the gender...

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September 8, 2018 at 8:00 am

New ETF combines female-focused strategy with a charitable twist

The top-two holdings of the YWCA Women’s Empowerment ETF are Microsoft and Amazon.

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January 15, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Investors rebel against online-only annual shareholder meetings

While companies say digital tools cut costs and make meetings accessible to more shareholders, some investors complain that virtual meetings erode their ability to hold...

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October 8, 2017 at 5:00 pm

Investors put pressure on Starbucks, Google over gender policies

Instead of focusing on getting women onto boards and into senior management, shareholders are changing tactics and questioning companies like Starbucks and Google over gender-pay...

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July 30, 2016 at 8:00 am

Most companies failing to dig up conflict-mineral information

Three years after U.S. companies were required to start filing reports about their efforts to check their supply chains for minerals linked to armed militia...

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