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Two anaerobic food digesters will reduce trash bills for the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, PA. By using the digesters to break down organic trash, the casino will reduce its monthly trash load by 20 to 30 tons, according to LehighValleyLive.com. The food digesters use microorganisms to break leftover food ... Read more »
Since the year 2000, local and national governments have dramatically increased the number of initiatives focused on addressing the problem of food waste. Now, governments in more than 20 countries around the world are taking action to reduce food waste, according to a new report from researchers at the Johns Hopkins ... Read more »
Oceanside, California, plans to add more onsite solar to city facilities this fall, the Coast News reported. The project is part of a 25-year agreement with PFMG Solar that saves the city the cost of installation and maintenance on the solar energy systems. Oceanside just pays for the electricity generated ... Read more »
Home Depot plans to convert 50 store rooftops nationwide into mini solar farms. The installations will go on unused rooftops and slash electricity demand in each of those stores by approximately 30% to 35% annually.
The Massachusetts city Worcester, located about 50 miles west of Boston, signed a $26.6 million energy savings performance contract with Honeywell International in 2011 for extensive energy conservation and renewable energy measures across 92 city-owned buildings. Now those measures are on track to be completed, and the city anticipates saving ... Read more »
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Molson Coors was able to reduce water consumption by 0.6% in 2016 and announced plans to improve water-use efficiency by 22% by 2025. The company’s water strategy focuses on working with farmers on water conservation, improving soil health and biodiversity, and advancing water restoration efforts in its watersheds. The company ... Read more »
A Philadelphia Cream Cheese plant in the Village of Lowville, NY, has been issued a mandatory water conservation order. The plant recently used more than a million gallons of water in a day, when the village’s water filtration plant can only filter 1.3 million gallons in a 24-hour period, according ... Read more »
Limelight, a manufacturer of wireless lighting controls, has been providing energy efficiency to parking garages across North America for nearly a decade, and has now expanded its market reach to Central America. The 100-acre campus at America Free Zone (AFZ) provides services to companies looking for a reliable facility to ... Read more »
Equinix, a global data center company, has announced the signing of a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between a subsidiary of Southern Company and Equinix in which Bloom Energy fuel cells will be installed at 12 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in the US. The project will provide a total ... Read more »
The Arctic Circle will be home to the world’s largest data center, a facility with a goal of being powered 100% by renewable energy. Located close to 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle, in Bellangen, Norway, the facility is within 25 kilometers of large amounts of hydropower that will ... Read more »
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The increasing furor over food waste we’ve been seeing in the US has been going on for nearly a decade in Norway, when in 2010 the state and the food industry began working to together to reduce the amount of food that goes unconsumed. Now, a new store called Best Før ... Read more »
Cigarette butts, all roughly 1.2 million metric tons of them, pile up annually and the waste shows no sign of tapering off. But an enterprising engineering researcher from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, might have figured out an effective and productive way to recycle them. The resulting material could help ... Read more »
People Against Dirty, the San Francisco-based company that makes Method cleaning products, just joined the Sustainable Packaging Coalition’s How2Recycle program, which aims to reduce confusion about recycling through clear standardized consumer labels. A new line of Method dishwasher detergent packs sold in stand-up plastic pouches will soon have the How2Recycle ... Read more »
The new Food Recovery Act (H.R. 3444) could become the first national food waste policy could have numerous implications for several sectors of the U.S economy. With the new food waste policy, date labels would finally be standardized on the federal level. According to wastedive.com, under the legislation, if a ... Read more »
Facebook announced this week that its 10th U.S.-based data center will be located in New Albany, Ohio, just north of Columbus. The $750 million, 22-acre data plant is expected to employ 100 people and be powered exclusively by renewable energy. According to abcnews.go.com, Rachel Peterson, the company’s director of data center ... Read more »
Pilkington Glass plant in Ontario, Canada, received $146,049 for its energy conservation efforts, part of the Save on Energy Retrofit Program. Pilkington, manufacturer of glass for buildings and vehicles, made upgrades to the plant’s compressed air system and dryers. The upgrades resulted in a substantial energy savings. The money was ... Read more »
Businesses such as restaurants and retailers often choose to leave their doors open during the summer months, hoping to lure potential customers inside. But these businesses contribute to CO2 in the atmosphere and help increase the risk of blackouts. According to New York-based energy giant Con Edison, throughout the course ... Read more »
Environmental groups are suing the EPA over its application of the Toxic Substance Control Act, saying that the methods by which the agency is prioritizing and evaluating chemicals will harm workers and families.
By Katie Pastor and Eliot Metzger As populations grow and emerging markets industrialize, companies are facing a serious long-term challenge: how to meet surging consumer demand while minimizing environmental damage and sustaining the planet’s natural resources. If companies stick with current resource-hungry business models, this is an impossible task. But confronting ... Read more »
Nestle Waters NA has become the first beverage manufacturer in North America to include the How2Reycle label, created by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, on the half-liter bottles of all its major US brands. The label, which tells drinkers to “empty and replace cap,” is meant to ensure that the caps ... Read more »
A shore power solution has just been unveiled at the Port of Montreal, with the Holland America Cruise Ship Veendam being the first to test it. The cruise ship successfully shut off its diesel engines after docking at the new Alexandra Cruise Terminal in Montreal. The ship was then connected ... Read more »
The number of zero-net energy (ZNE) commercial buildings in the United States doubled between 2014 and 2017, according to newbuildings.org. As facilityexecutive.com points out, the growth is due primarily to industry leadership, technology market evolution, construction workforce development, policies, and consumer awareness. Also helping the cause is the basic fact ... Read more »
Phoenix has officially begun its city-wide initiative to replace all 90,000 street lights — plus lighting at its park facilities — with LED bulbs. According to 12news.com, by replacing all existing street lights with LED bulbs, the city expects to achieve a total net savings of approximately $22 million through 2030. ... Read more »
US cities, home to more than 62% of the domestic population, are at a critical juncture, with many experiencing dangerous levels of water scarcity and drought, food insecurity, and flooding due to sea-level rise, as well as other challenges. Now, cities have received a wake-up call – and a call ... Read more »
A new handbook is available to help organizations understand how to undertake a water footprint assessment using ISO 14046. Water availability, both in terms of quantity and quality, is recognized as a key global issue by the United Nations. Businesses (both directly and indirectly through their supply chain), communities and ... Read more »