Waste Management
Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling, disposal and monitoring of waste. We also include articles on EPA efforts to enforce regulations that prevent hazardous waste.
Shaw Industries, Kilian Reveal Chemical Substitution Successes
German sign manufacturer Kilian Industrieschilder and carpet firm Shaw Industries are among the companies that have found environmentally friendly substitutes for problematic or dangerous chemicals ...
Publix Saves Two Billion Shopping Bags
Initiatives started by Publix Super Markets in mid-2007 have saved two billion single-use paper and plastic shopping bags from being used, the company has announced.
The ...
Waste as a Resource
Kevin Scoble, director of the environmental services department at the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, discusses waste as a resource.
GE Joins EPA’s WasteWise, SmartWay Initiatives
GE Appliances has partnered with the EPA in the agency's WasteWise and SmartWay programs, pledging to reduce landfill waste and emissions.
Already an ...
Supermarket’s On-Site Harvester Turns Food Waste Into Fertilizer
PCC Natural Markets, the nation's largest member-owned grocery retailer, has selected its Issaquah, Wash., store for its first on-site food scrap "harvester."
PCC is undertaking the ...
Chrysler Dealerships Install Solar Panels, Recycle Motor Oil and Rainwater
Tim Parker Chrysler, located in the Hot Springs National Park in central Arkansas, installed a 2,000-square-foot solar panel system on the ...
Nike Sustainability Report: Aims for 20% CO2, 15% Water, 10% Waste Cuts by 2015
Nike has committed itself to a 20 percent reduction in CO2 emissions per unit, a 15 percent improvement in water use per unit of production ...
Cox Saves 17,400 Tons of Carbon over Five Years
Cox Enterprises has saved 17,400 tons of carbon through alternative energy projects since 2007 and conserves 20 million gallons of water annually, according ...
Kellogg's Sustainability Report: Falls Behind Target With Normalized Waste Production Up 13%
Kellogg's increased its normalized waste to landfill by 13 percent last year, putting the cereal company behind schedule to meet its 2015 goal on ...
Earth Day Briefing: Coke, Pepsi, Whole Foods, Target, Caribou Coffee
It's that time of year again. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22 companies have been unveiling green initiatives all over the place. Here's ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Green Squared, Chain of Custody, Supplier's Declaration of Conformity, WEEE
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes eight items.
Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) has certified its first ...
Unintended Environmental Consequences of the Demise of Redevelopment in California
California has a rich history of seizing opportunities that, at first glance, seem perilous. Following a significant industrial and manufacturing era in ...
Walmart Sustainability Report: Supplier Scorecards to Launch in 100 Categories this Year
Walmart expects to develop supplier scorecards in up to 100 major product categories by the end of this year, in the latest stage of ...
Lockheed Meets Green Goals a Year Early
Defense company Lockheed Martin has achieved its five-year sustainability goals a year ahead of schedule.
Lockheed Martin's programs have reduced its corporate water usage by 25 ...
Scotts Miracle-Gro Sustainability Report: Announces 50% Waste-to-Landfill, 20% CO2 Reduction Targets
Scotts Miracle-Gro has set sustainability goals including a 50 percent reduction in waste sent to landfill and a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gas ...
General Mills Sustainability Report: Energy Use Falls Another 6%, But 2011 a 'Challenging' Year
General Mills' energy usage rate stayed flat in fiscal 2011 at just under 540 kWh of energy per metric ton of production, a 6 percent ...
Jewel-Osco’s Journey to Zero Waste
Promo video highlighting sustainability efforts at Jewel-Osco.
(It looks like Jewel-Osco has ...
Make that Four Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renewable Energy
When it comes to waste management, we have all learned the 3 Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle (practiced in that order please). ...
SCA Achieves First Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Plant in North America
SCA announced its first zero-waste-to-landfill manufacturing plant in North America. The plant, in Bowling Green, Ky., manufactures SCA's Tena line of incontinence products.
The facility, which opened ...
Sustainability Results: AB InBev Beats CO2 Goal Early, Cuts Water 8% in One Year
Anheuser-Busch InBev cut its greenhouse gas emissions per hectoliter of beer produced by 11.5 percent from 2009 to 2011, beating a goal of a 10 ...
