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Pitney Bowes Reclaims 1 Million+ Pounds of Equipment in 2008

Pitney Bowes says it has recovered nearly 1.1 million pounds of U.S. equipment and parts in 2008 for recycling or remanufacturing. Pitney ...

Chemical Industry Focuses on Energy Efficiency

Even with a growing recession, the chemical industry is continuing to focus on energy management and efficiency, according to ChemicalProcessing.com. A recent survey by AspenTech of Burlington, Massachusetts finds ...

UL Offers Environmental Claims Verification Service

Underwriters Laboratories, well known for testing product safety, has launched a new unit, UL Environment Inc to verify green claims made by manufacturers. The company says they will work with manufacturers ...

Absolute Steel Refocuses Marketing Efforts on Green Products

Absolute Steel, a government contractor of steel building materials, has redesigned their marketing campaign in an effort to highlight their green products. In the past few years, the company has ...

CO2 Cuts in U.S. Steel Industry Surpass Kyoto Protocol

The U.S. Steel industry has reduced its energy intensity per ton of steel shipped by about 33 percent since 1990 - an improvement on the 29-percent reduction reported in 2006, according ...

Green Business 2008 – Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

With 2008 just out the door, it's a good time to look back at the green business issues and news items popular with top sustainability executives. Here are Environmental Leader's top green business stories for ...

CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals

The Roberts Environmental Center of Claremont McKenna College released new Pacific Sustainability Index scores on the environmental and social reporting for the financial, electronics and metals sectors. ...

Corus Denies Plans To Move European Operations To China

Corus Group Ltd., the U.K. unit of India's Tata Steel Ltd., said newspaper reports that it may move operations to China unless European carbon emissions rules are overhauled are false. The company's spokesman ...

Glass Container Industry Pledges To Use 50% Recycled Glass By 2013

Members of the Glass Packaging Institute have agreed to use at least 50 percent recycled glass in the manufacture of new glass bottles and jars by 2013. GPI estimates that energy savings ...

Aluminum Assoc. Sets Ambitious 75% Aluminum Can Recycling Target

The Aluminum Association is working on an industry wide effort to increase the industry’s recycling rate for used aluminum beverage cans to 75% by 2015. This is the same percentage Alcoa announced as ...

IBM Reports 4% Energy Savings, Net CO2 Emissions Up 5%

IBM released its 2007-2008 Corporate Responsibility Report (PDF) and reported that it exceeded its corporate goal of 3.5 percent energy saving and cut 3.8 percent of its total energy use. ...

EPA Tightens Allowable Lead Levels, First Time In 30 Years

The Environmental Protection Agency recently tightened the allowable lead level 10 times to 0.15 micrograms of lead per cubic meter of air (ug/m3). It's the first time in 30 years that ...

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

The World Steel Association recently released its 2008 sustainability report (PDF). The report is based on a survey of 500 stakeholders located in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Asia ...

Fuji Says Data Tape Storage Helps Reduce Energy and Costs

FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A. Inc. has introduced a campaign to help inform data center managers of the energy savings possible from its data tape storage. The campaign includes online and ...

Owens Corning Goes After Re-Insulation Market

Owens Corning is helping its building materials customers enter a growing market category – re-insulation. According to the Department of Energy standards, nearly 80 million U.S. homes are estimated to be under insulated. The company says ...

ExxonMobil Says New Tire Material Increases Fuel Efficiency

ExxonMobil Chemical announced the completion of a manufacturing facility at its existing site in Pensacola, Fla. The facility will provide new capacity for the production of a new tire material technology, ...

Beijing Cleans Up Air by Moving Factories Elsewhere

When Beijing won the privilege of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games seven years ago, the Chinese capital promised to improve its environmental issues. Among those was the promise of eliminating hundreds of ...

Japanese Steel Makers to Cut GHG Emissions by 30%

The Japan Iron and Steel Federation and six other major steel makers announced they will jointly develop technologies for reducing about 30 percent of the current level of GHG emitted by the steel industry. The ...

The Green Chemistry Tipping Point

It seems to have happened overnight. All of a sudden, everyone is talking about sustainability. Everyone is attempting to "go green!" You turn on the radio or the television and within ten minutes you hear ...

Western Climate Initiative Unveils Draft Of 2012 Cap-and-Trade Program

The Western Climate Initiative, made up of seven U.S. states and four Canadian provinces, has released its “Draft Design of the Regional Cap-and-Trade Program” and its “Draft Essential Requirements of Mandatory Reporting ...