Between 2007 and 2011, Ford reduced its global waste to landfills by 44 percent, or 100 million pounds – 49 percent in North America, according to a company press release.

Stef Kranendijk is chief executive of Desso, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of carpets for home and commercial use, and artificial grass for sports.

L’Oreal has published its 2011 Sustainable Development Report in the form of a printable summary in the corporate website.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) released its 2011 Corporate Sustainability Report on Earth Day, outlining its performance in five non-financial areas – environmental, ethics, diversity and inclusion, global community outreach, and occupational health and safety.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) today announced its Water for Life focus area as part of the company's Sustainability 2015 strategy.

Boehringer Ingelheim, headquartered in Ridgefield, Conn., recently hosted an Earth Day event for its employees, according to a company press release.

1. GHS stands for the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals

In order to monitor the status of implementation of the GHS, the United Nations secretariat has started to collect information publicly available from various sources (reports from members of the GHS Sub-Committee or NGOs, reports submitted to or issued by other United Nations organs, programs or specialized agencies (UNECE, UNITAR, IMO, ICAO, UNEP, WHO, ILO) or other intergovernmental organizations (European Commission, APEC), non-governmental organizations, as well as reports on various workshops, seminars, conferences and other events organized in relation with the implementation of the GHS.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) says its investigation into the April 20, 2010 Macondo well blowout, explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico is progressing and will be completed in early 2013.