Waste & Recycling
Waste and recycling focuses on waste and the reduction of waste through recycling. Included are stories about EPA efforts to control waste, including hazardous waste. Also included are stories on industrial efforts to reuse materials and reduce their toxic footprint.
Honda Green Dealer Program Targets 10% Energy Cuts
American Honda Motor Co. has launched a "green dealer" program to encourage 10 percent energy use reductions at independently-owned Honda and Acura dealers in the ...
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 ...
Supervalu Zero Waste Program Saved $3.4M in Haul-Away Costs, Earned $36M Recycling Income
Grocery retailer and supplier Supervalu aims to divert 90 percent or more of waste at 250 store locations by February 2013, as part of an ...
McDonald’s Unveils Sustainable Practices
Fast food chain McDonald's has employed techniques including $500 staff incentives, 30 percent wind power requirements and lightweight tractor-trailers to help green up its operations, ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Deepwater Horizon, Shell Oil Sheen, YPF Nationalization, Keystone XL, LNG Exports
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 18 items.
A presidential commission investigating the 2010 Gulf ...
Consumer Electronics Firms Upped Recycling by 53% in 2011
Members of the consumer electronics industry's eCycling Leadership Initiative - including Apple, Best Buy, Dell and HP - increased the amount of goods they recycled ...
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 ...
HP, Staples Offer Free E-Recycling
Hewlett-Packard and office products retailer Staples have teamed up to offer free electronics recycling for all brands of office technology at Staples stores nationwide.
Small businesses ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Energy Star Buildings, WindMade, Corrugated Packaging, WEEE
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes nine items.
The newly released list of U.S. cities with ...
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 ...
Dignity Healthcare Taps Medline Industries for Dye-Free Plastic
Dignity Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to switch to dye-free patient plastics.
Under the new initiative, Dignity Health will replace everyday ...
Top Medical Equipment Manufacturers Lack Public Sustainability Goals, Focus Efforts on Waste, Report Says
Of the 10 largest manufacturers of medical equipment and supplies, with more than $100 billion in annual sales, only four have announced any ...
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). ...
LG Joins EPA’s Green Power Partnership with 100% Green Energy Use at HQ
LG Electronics USA is purchasing more than 1.5 million kWh of green power over the next 18 months in cooperation with the EPA's Green Power ...
Volvo Sustainability Report: Hazardous Waste Up 14%, Energy Use 7% - But Sales Up 17%
From 2010 to 2011, Volvo Group's energy use rose 7 percent and its hazardous waste production rose by 14 percent - both smaller percentages than ...
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 ...
