One of the most significant challenges that manufacturers and major brands face today is maintaining high sustainability standards across their entire supply and production chain. It’s no new idea that consumer brands that have not embraced sustainability and CSR initiatives are at risk on many fronts, but integrating more environmentally sound and socially responsible processes requires sweeping infrastructure changes that many businesses may have difficulty implementing and sustaining.

Now, it’s possible that intrapreneurship is just another corporate buzzword — à la “pivot,” “pioneer,” “digital storytelling” — that sounds innovative but is ultimately meaningless. Or maybe it’s an organizational line of thinking that could have some serious effect on the social sector for the better.

Office Depot/OfficeMax has launched a binder recycling program, encouraging shoppers to recycled old binders through recycling company TerraCycle.

TerraCycle is a revolutionary recycling company that offers free recycling programs, funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world. The programs, leveraged by over 60 Million people, have a special emphasis on making hard-to-recycle waste more simple to collect and recycle. Their programs include recycling rallies that take place at various schools, zero waste boxes that allow you to recycle almost anything, and more! As if that isn't enough, the programs also benefit local charities, with over $15,000,000 dollars donated thus far.

The hot summer months are here, which for parents means their kid might need (or want) effective underarm protection. For parents looking to avoid aluminum, parabens and artificial fragrances, Tom’s of Maine is introducing its first natural deodorant designed just for kids when they’re ready.

Sold in 4-pack windowed cartons, the yogurt has a 12-month shelf life from date of manufacture. An agreement with Terracycle, Trenton, N.J., collects pouches for recycling. “We are excited about our ongoing partnership with Terracycle, which has given our consumers an opportunity to upcycle all of their squeezable snack food pouches and caps into new products, since 2011. To date, we have collected over 2 million pieces of waste across over 7,500 participating locations,” he said.

Making complex concepts like sustainability and the importance of circular waste solutions compelling to young consumers can be a real game: literally and figuratively.

D'Addario is proud to provide two string recycling boxes backstage at WXPN/Philadelphia's XPoNential Music Festival presented by Subaru this year- allowing all the artists to deposit their used strings on site.

Everyone has their own way of staying organized, and the good old 3-ring binder still has the affinity of all age groups. A school supply requirement on many grade school lists, binders can play a role in supporting collegiate and post-graduate study and keeping bills and

D'Addario is proud to provide two string recycling boxes backstage at WXPN/Philadelphia's XPoNential Music Festival presented by Subaru this year- allowing all the artists to deposit their used strings on site. In D'Addario's quest to recycle 300,000 strings by the end of 2016 (having already reached 50,000), this will help get the word out to not only the artists playing, but guitarists nationwide.