Waste
Companies Boost Recycling Efforts Despite Slow Economy
Organizations are increasingly putting more effort into their recycling programs for all types of materials such as aluminum cans, fluorescent lamps, wood waste and scrap metal. Along ...
HSBC Meets Targets for Emissions, Waste and Energy
HSBC Holding plc, one of the world's largest banking and financial services companies, says it has achieved several of its environmental performance goals in 2008 including reduction ...
Sustainable Packaging To Grab 32% Of Market By 2014
Sustainable packaging will grow to 32% of the total global packaging market by 2014, up from just 21% in 2009, according to Sustainable Packaging, new ...
E-Waste to Peak in 2015
The e-waste crisis will worsen over the next several years until 2015, when volume will peak at 73 million metric tons, according to a new report from Pike Research. However, the firm forecasts that ...
ConAgra Facility Cuts Water Use 34%
ConAgra Foods Inc., Omaha, Neb., re-instituted its Sustainable Development Awards program, this year recognizing projects that, in their overall effect, slashed carbon emissions by more ...
Plastic Bag Industry Shoots for 40% Recycled Content by 2015
The Full Circle Recycling Initiative aims for 40 percent recycled content in all plastic bags by 2015, including at least 25 percent postconsumer recycled plastic. The initiative ...
Mars, TerraCycle Turn Packaging Into Consumer Goods
Mars Inc. and TerraCycle are partnering to turn waste and surplus packaging into consumer goods. By making products ranging from cell phone holders and laptop ...
L’Oreal to Reduce GHG Emissions, Water Consumption and Waste by 50%
In celebration of Earth Day, L'Oreal has announced its long-term environmental plan for 2005 to 2015, which includes greater reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water consumption ...
SunChips Plans 100% Compostable Chip Bag
In 2010, SunChips says it will introduce the first fully compostable chip bag, designed to fully decompose in about 14 weeks when placed in a hot, active compost heap - as illustrated in this ...
Sustainable Food Packaging Grows Despite Economy
While many food and beverage companies are embracing recycled and sustainable packaging options, the sector faces its own challenges in economic sustainability because of the global ...
Electronics Recyclers Call for Improved E-Waste Processing
Electronics recyclers and refurbishers are recommending several key changes to manufacturers on how they design electronic products and the information they need to improve processing of used ...
Sprint Wants to Recycle 250,000 Cell Phones in April
Supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Plug-In To eCycling National Cell Phone Recycling Week", April 6-12, 2009, Sprint has set a goal to collect 250,000 ...
Study: U.S. Companies waste $2.8 Billion Annually to Power Idle PCs
Key findings of the 2009 PC Energy Report, commissioned by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy, reveal that nearly half of U.S. employees who ...
Aquafina Eco-Fina Bottle Claims Lightest Weight in its Class
At 10.9 grams, Aquafina claims its new half-liter Eco-Fina plastic water bottle is the lightest in its class. The new bottle is made with 50 percent less ...
Meeting Industry Aims to Cut Waste
The average meeting attendee generates about 20 pounds of trash, and that's a number that the meeting industry would like to reduce. To coordinate the effort, the ...
Western States May Reform Waste Management
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a movement to improve product design by altering the financing paradigm for recycling and waste disposal, is picking up steam as California, ...
Canada Proposes Companies Pay For Recycling, Improved Packaging
Canada's environment ministers are proposing to charge the corporate world for recycling their packaging once consumers are done with it, the Canadian Press reports. The Canada-wide Action ...
TerraCycle Piloting In-Store Waste Collection Points
TerraCycle is running a pilot program in the New York-New Jersey area where it is setting up non-recyclable waste collection systems in the front of major retail ...
HR Survey: Top ‘Green’ Practices Target Travel, Paper Use
More than half of employers currently practice strategic environmental management, according to a new survey conducted by human resource consulting firm Buck Consultants, an ACS company. The survey analyzed responses from 93 organizations in the ...
Despite Perception, Sustainable Packaging Saves Money
Critics of sustainable packaging point to higher cost as a reason for companies to avoid its adoption. Yet companies employing sustainable packaging report cost savings, according to an IndustryWeek article. The most common path toward savings ...
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