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.

Anglo American Uses Coal Waste to House Staff

Anglo American Uses Coal Waste to House StaffAnglo American is using gypsum by-products from its mining operations to build energy-efficient houses for its workers, CNN reports. The company’s South African operations ...

November 28, 2011

Phone Recycling and Environmental Sustainability

Phone Recycling and Environmental Sustainability AT&T promo video about designing products with the environment in mind and using environmentally safe packaging.

November 22, 2011

Puma Ups Environmental P&L by $69m

Puma Ups Environmental P&L by $69mPuma has updated its Environmental Profit and Loss account to include 51 million euros ($69 million) resulting from land use, air pollution ...

November 16, 2011

Did Coke Force American Idol to Drop Bottle Campaign?

Did Coke Force American Idol to Drop Bottle Campaign?A sponsor of American Idol, rumored to be Coca-Cola, has forced the TV talent show to drop a public service announcement that features show contestants urging ...

November 15, 2011

Puma Researching Compostable Shoes

Puma Researching Compostable ShoesPuma is working to create compostable shoes and clothing, the Guardian reports (via German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche). CEO Franz Koch said the company is ...

November 15, 2011

EL Pro Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005

Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005Heinz has cut its production of solid waste per unit of production by 45.6 percent since 2005, according to the company’s 2011 Corporate Social ...

November 15, 2011

Exxon to Recycle 1986 Tanker on U.S. Soil

Exxon to Recycle 1986 Tanker on U.S. SoilExxon Mobil and subsidiary SeaRiver Maritime have sold their 1986 tanker the S/R Wilmington for recycling, in a move that watchdog organization Basel Action ...

November 14, 2011

Coke Makes 100% Recycling Pledge for 2012 Olympics

Coke Makes 100% Recycling Pledge for 2012 OlympicsCoca-Cola has promised to recycle all clear plastic PET bottles used at the London 2012 Olympics, according to news reports. The company has ...

November 10, 2011

Kimberly-Clark Signs Diaper Recycling Deal

Kimberly-Clark Signs Diaper Recycling DealKimberly-Clark has signed an agreement aimed at expanding its recycling of used disposable diapers into Australia, Ireland, the U.K. and mainland Europe over the next ...

November 10, 2011

EL Pro Xerox Cuts Water Use 7% in One Year

Xerox Cuts Water Use 7% in One YearXerox brought its water consumption down seven percent in 2010, compared to 2009 levels, according to its sixth Global Citizenship Report and 2011 Environmental, ...

November 8, 2011

Shasun Wastewater Facility Installs Hach Lange Sensors

Shasun Wastewater Facility Installs Hach Lange SensorsDrug company Shasun Pharma Solutions' wastewater plant in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., has installed Hach Lange sensor equipment. The facility is reporting reduced maintenance and more accurate ...

November 7, 2011

Chrysler Invests $35m In Emissions Cuts, Conservation

Chrysler Invests $35m In Emissions Cuts, ConservationChrysler Group invested more than $35 million toward reducing facility emissions and enhancing resource conservation in 2010, according to its first sustainability report. The group, ...

October 28, 2011

EL Pro Bombardier Cuts Energy, GHGs 3 Percent

Bombardier Cuts Energy, GHGs 3 PercentBombardier's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions each fell by three percent over FY 2011, according to the company's 2011 CSR Overview. Energy consumption fell ...

October 26, 2011

Green Drive Saves Hilton $74m in Two Years

Green Drive Saves Hilton $74m in Two YearsLightStay, the sustainability measurement system used by Hilton Worldwide and its portfolio of 10 hotel brands, has saved the company more than $74 million since its ...

October 21, 2011

Implications of Obama’s National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship

Implications of Obama’s National Strategy for Electronics StewardshipOver the summer, the Obama Administration released its long-awaited National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship. It describes a number of activities ...

October 19, 2011

Md. Seeks to Buy Power from Chicken Manure

Md. Seeks to Buy Power from Chicken ManureMaryland is seeking proposals for power systems that generate electricity from animal waste, such as poultry litter or livestock manure. To be eligible, plants must have ...

October 18, 2011

EL Pro Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, Waste

Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, WasteClorox has released its first integrated financial, environmental, social and governance report, which shows that energy consumption fell from 1.81 to 1.78 MWh ...

October 17, 2011

EL Pro Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 Rises

Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 RisesProcter & Gamble's scope 1 CO2 emissions rose from 2.8 million to 2.9 million metric tons in 2011, but scope 2 emissions fell ...

October 14, 2011

U.S. Capitol Pens Waste-to-Energy Contract

U.S. Capitol Pens Waste-to-Energy ContractThe U.S. Capitol is to divert 90 percent of its solid waste from landfills to local waste-to-energy facilities. Congress's estimated 5,300 tons of annual non-recyclable waste will ...

October 10, 2011

EL Pro Microsoft Lags on 2012 CO2 Goal

Microsoft Lags on 2012 CO2 GoalMicrosoft is behind schedule on a goal of reducing carbon emissions per unit of revenue by 20 percent by 2012, from a 2007 ...

October 10, 2011