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PepsiCo announced a partnership with the Downtown DC Business Improvement District (BID) and the District Department of Public Works (DPW) that will make Washington, D.C. the U.S. first city to partner with the Dream Machine recycling initiative. A total of 363 recycling bins will be placed throughout the Downtown DC BID area, offering a convenient and rewarding recycling option for people while they are on-the-go and advancing the BID’s Greening Downtown DC initiative.
Rankings revolving around the health, environmental and social impact of products and companies are gaining their popularity among consumers who want to know if the goods they purchase are really healthy from different points of view. Recently, Popsop wrote about Nike’s ‘Environmental Apparel Design Tool,’ based on Nike’s Considered Design Index, as well as the Eco Index, and now the GoodGuide system, created back in 2007, gets into the spotlight. So far, over 95,000 food, toys, apparel, personal care & household products, babies & kids, electronics and appliances produced by both local and global companies (the list of those includes Starbucks, Levi’s, H&M, Nescafe, Nike, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Diesel to name a few) are thoroughly studied and ranked by experts of GoodGuide, with the results being available at the website and on the iPhone app.