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.

EL Pro Allstate Cuts Internal Paper Use 41% in Two Years

Allstate Cuts Internal Paper Use 41% in Two YearsAllstate has cut its paper consumption dramatically and has continued cutting its carbon emissions, but saw its energy use increase slightly last year, according ...

September 6, 2011

Cheese Waste Turned into Plastic

Cheese Waste Turned into PlasticResearchers 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 ...

August 30, 2011

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Nissan, Poseidon, Dow, New York City, WM, First Solar

Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Nissan, Poseidon, Dow, New York City, WM, First SolarNissan Americas: The car company has named Vicki Smith as senior manager for corporate social responsibility and executive director of the Nissan ...

August 29, 2011

EL Pro Dunkin' Donuts Cuts 4.6m Pounds a Year From Cup Waste

Dunkin’ Donuts Cuts 4.6m Pounds a Year From Cup WasteDunkin’ 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 ...

August 29, 2011

Scope 3: Pivoting to Material Efficiency

Scope 3: Pivoting to Material EfficiencyThe upcoming release of the scope 3 emissions reporting standard from the GHG Protocol is significant for two reasons. One is the ...

August 24, 2011

EL Pro Gap Aims to Cut GHGs 20% by 2015

Gap Aims to Cut GHGs 20% by 2015Gap has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2015, from a 2008 baseline, in the company’s fifth Social and Environmental ...

August 24, 2011

Food Industry Details Anti-Waste Initiative

Food Industry Details Anti-Waste InitiativeTrade 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 ...

August 23, 2011

EL Pro Policy & Regulatory Briefing: $3m for Hazmat Spill, Offshore Wind, Carrier and Trane Warning on HCFC-22

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: $3m for Hazmat Spill, Offshore Wind, Carrier and Trane Warning on HCFC-22Klaus 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 ...

August 19, 2011

Air Products Fuels Cars with Hydrogen from Wastewater

Air Products Fuels Cars with Hydrogen from WastewaterSpecialty 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 ...

August 17, 2011

Plastic Disclosure Project to Launch This Fall

Plastic Disclosure Project to Launch This FallHundreds of companies and institutions should expect a questionnaire in early October about their use of plastic, with the launch of the ...

August 15, 2011

Distiller Powers Nissan Leaf on Whiskey

Distiller Powers Nissan Leaf on WhiskeyWorried about rising fuel costs? Spare a thought for Scotland, where things seem to have got so bad that one business has resorted to ...

August 12, 2011

EL Pro International Paper Cuts Energy Use, Increases Landfilling

International Paper Cuts Energy Use, Increases LandfillingInternational Paper reduced its global energy use from 2007 to 2010, but increased its landfilled solid waste from 2006 to 2010, according to ...

August 12, 2011

Xpedx Aims to Cut Waste 10% a Year

Xpedx Aims to Cut Waste 10% a YearAn 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 ...

August 10, 2011

WM, DaVita Launch Dialysis Recycling Trial

WM, DaVita Launch Dialysis Recycling TrialDialysis 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 ...

August 9, 2011

EL Pro Molson Coors Cuts Water Use 5% in One Year

Molson Coors Cuts Water Use 5% in One YearMolson Coors cut its water use, energy use, waste and scope 2 carbon emissions in 2010, though its scope 1 emissions rose, according ...

August 8, 2011

Wates Group Discusses Sending Zero Waste to Landfill

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 ...

August 5, 2011

Enabling Product Stewardship

Enabling Product StewardshipHistorically, federal, state and local government have managed environmental issues through regulation, assessing potential harm to human health and instituting policies that minimize ...

August 4, 2011

EL Pro Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Energy Star, Chemical Reporting, EPA Seeks Waste Rule Comments

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Energy Star, Chemical Reporting, EPA Seeks Waste Rule CommentsRep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) on Monday introduced the Smart Electronics Act (HR 2748) to direct the Department of Energy and the EPA ...

August 3, 2011

Office Depot Aims to Save 20,000 Trees With Paper Bag Roll-Out

Office Depot Aims to Save 20,000 Trees With Paper Bag Roll-OutOffice Depot will offer delivery service customers the option to receive supplies in paper bags rather than cardboard boxes, in an effort it ...

August 3, 2011

EL Pro Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Nuclear Waste, Yucca Mountain Lawsuit, Dow Chemical Penalty

Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Nuclear Waste, Yucca Mountain Lawsuit, Dow Chemical PenaltyA 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. ...

August 1, 2011