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.
Allstate Cuts Internal Paper Use 41% in Two Years
Allstate has cut its paper consumption dramatically and has continued cutting its carbon emissions, but saw its energy use increase slightly last year, according ...
Cheese Waste Turned into Plastic
Researchers in Catalonia, Spain, have invented a process that turns cheese waste into recyclable plastic food packaging.
This new plastic is made using whey protein - a ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Nissan, Poseidon, Dow, New York City, WM, First Solar
Nissan Americas: The car company has named Vicki Smith as senior manager for corporate social responsibility and executive director of the Nissan ...
Dunkin' Donuts Cuts 4.6m Pounds a Year From Cup Waste
Dunkin’ Donuts has eliminated 4.6 million pounds of waste a year by reducing the weight of two disposable cups, according to the firm’s first ...
Scope 3: Pivoting to Material Efficiency
The upcoming release of the scope 3 emissions reporting standard from the GHG Protocol is significant for two reasons. One is the ...
Gap Aims to Cut GHGs 20% by 2015
Gap has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2015, from a 2008 baseline, in the company’s fifth Social and Environmental ...
Food Industry Details Anti-Waste Initiative
Trade bodies the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute have released details of a three-year initiative aimed at helping their industry reduce food waste.
Speaking ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: $3m for Hazmat Spill, Offshore Wind, Carrier and Trane Warning on HCFC-22
Klaus Genssler, chief operating officer of U.S. Oil Recovery L.P., has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a Harris County, Texas, lawsuit. The ...
Air Products Fuels Cars with Hydrogen from Wastewater
Specialty gas company Air Products has opened a hydrogen fueling station (pictured) that draws feedstock from municipal wastewater.
In addition to providing hydrogen, the process, taking place ...
Plastic Disclosure Project to Launch This Fall
Hundreds of companies and institutions should expect a questionnaire in early October about their use of plastic, with the launch of the ...
Distiller Powers Nissan Leaf on Whiskey
Worried about rising fuel costs? Spare a thought for Scotland, where things seem to have got so bad that one business has resorted to ...
International Paper Cuts Energy Use, Increases Landfilling
International Paper reduced its global energy use from 2007 to 2010, but increased its landfilled solid waste from 2006 to 2010, according to ...
Xpedx Aims to Cut Waste 10% a Year
An environmental initiative by distribution company Xpedx is aiming to recycle 2,400 tons of material in 2011 and reduce the firm’s waste by 10 percent annually ...
WM, DaVita Launch Dialysis Recycling Trial
Dialysis service provider DaVita Inc. and a subsidiary of recycling and refuse collection firm Waste Management are hoping to recycle 350,000 pounds of waste from kidney ...
Molson Coors Cuts Water Use 5% in One Year
Molson Coors cut its water use, energy use, waste and scope 2 carbon emissions in 2010, though its scope 1 emissions rose, according ...
Wates Group Discusses Sending Zero Waste to Landfill
In 2006 Rachel Woolliscroft set out to reduce the amount of construction waste Wates was sending to landfill. The disposal was ...
Enabling Product Stewardship
Historically, federal, state and local government have managed environmental issues through regulation, assessing potential harm to human health and instituting policies that minimize ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Energy Star, Chemical Reporting, EPA Seeks Waste Rule Comments
Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) on Monday introduced the Smart Electronics Act (HR 2748) to direct the Department of Energy and the EPA ...
Office Depot Aims to Save 20,000 Trees With Paper Bag Roll-Out
Office Depot will offer delivery service customers the option to receive supplies in paper bags rather than cardboard boxes, in an effort it ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Nuclear Waste, Yucca Mountain Lawsuit, Dow Chemical Penalty
A presidential Blue Ribbon Panel on Friday recommended that the U.S. take care of its nuclear waste by using a network of interim storage sites and one or more permanent geologic dumps, Reuters said. ...
