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.
Kimberly-Clark to Launch Bamboo Toilet Paper
Kimberly-Clark's U.K. line of Andrex toilet tissue will launch Andrex Eco, made with 90 percent recycled fiber and 10 percent bamboo, the company said.
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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Indian Point, EPA Overruled on Coal, UK Delays GHG Reporting Law
Entergy, the owner of Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y., has agreed with the New York State DEC to pay a $1.2 million penalty ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: ASHRAE Guideline 32, Cool Planet, e-Stewards, Greenguard, FSC
ASHRAE's newly published Guideline 32-2012: Sustainable, High Performance Operation and Maintenance aims to give facility managers guidance on operation and maintenance of buildings to ...
Starbucks, Stonyfield Paying Own Recycling Costs as Local Authorities Struggle
Food and drink companies such as Starbucks are increasingly bearing the costs of recycling their own packaging, which they then turn into new products, according ...
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 ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-Track
The EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards ...
Liberty Paper Mill to Self-Power with Anaerobic Digester
Liberty Paper's mill in Becker, Minn., is expected to completely self-power using a $15 million water pretreatment plant with bio-gas generator, writes the Minneapolis ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: PTC, China Solar Tariffs, Chemical Reporting, India and ETS
New bipartisan legislation seeks an extension to the production tax credit for wind energy under the American Energy and Job Promotion Act, after the measure ...
The Benefits of Life Cycle Analysis
Assessing sustainability is a pursuit rife with complexity and subjectivity. One tool that I have seen that is useful in navigating this ...
Nestle Easter Eggs’ 100% Recyclable Packaging Saves 726 Tons of Plastic Waste
Nestle UK & Ireland has converted to 100 percent recyclable packaging on its Easter egg confectioneries by replacing rigid plastic with cardboard. The move is ...
Green Mountain College To Buy Back its Own Recyclables Under Closed Loop System
Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt., will buy products upcycled from its own waste under a new sustainability initiative from Casella Waste Systems.
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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Superfund Sites, OECD Report on GHG, Tier 3 Standards
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the release of emergency oil reserves during a bilateral meeting this week, but no agreement ...
Coke Wastewater Straining City Resources, Officials Claim
Wastewater from a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Northampton, Mass., is becoming costly for public facilities to treat, leading the city to investigate revisions to treatment ...
Envirogen Launches Compact Coal Mining Water Treatment Product
Water treatment products firm Envirogen Technologies Inc. has launched a new small-footprint fluidized bed reactor system designed to treat low flows of selenium-laden coal ...
Over 90 Universities Curbing Bottled Water Sales; Borealis, BioMass Launch Packaging
Brown, Harvard, the University of Vermont and about 90 other educational institutes are banning sales or restricting use of plastic water bottles due to student ...
Henkel Sustainability Report: Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions Drop 9% Year-On-Year
Henkel, the company behind Dial, Purex, Right Guard and other personal care brands, reduced its energy consumption by over nine percent from 2010 to 2011, ...
Global Reporting Initiative's Own Sustainability Report: Emissions Rise
Direct and indirect carbon emissions from office operations at the Global Reporting Initiative increased from about 78 to 80 metric tons of CO2 between fiscal ...
Anvil Knitwear Chooses CA Technologies Environmental Management Software
Anvil Knitwear Inc. is implementing CA Technologies' ecoSoftware to help manage its sustainability program worldwide.
The century-old apparel company will be using CA ecoSoftware to measure ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Basel and R2, Fuel Economy, Greenguard Select, LEED, B Corp
The Basel Action Network's e-Stewards Certification for electronics recyclers now includes the earlier EPA-developed R2 (Responsible Recycling) practices. E-Stewards certifications already require adherence to the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: NRC Safety Rules, BP Settles, UK Offshore Wind, Vermont Landfill Bill
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has voted to issue the first new safety rules since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2001, according to agency ...
