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Over 2M Kilograms of Batteries Diverted from Landfills

November 11, 2014November 10, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Call2Recycle Canada has collected and recycled more than 2 million kilograms of batteries across Canada. The organization, funded by battery and battery-powered product manufacturers, says Canadians have recycled more batteries in the first 10 months of this year than in all of 2013. Call2Recycle Canada is the approved battery stewardship ... Read more »

1800Recycling.com, Call2Recycle Partner on Battery Recycling

September 26, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

1800Recycling.com, an interactive recycling website, has partnered with Call2Recycle, North America’s largest consumer battery stewardship program. As part of the partnership, Call2Recycle and 1800Recycling will work to improve the current battery recycling portion of the 1800recycling system, including the integration of Call2Recycle’s US public battery collection network into 1800Recycling’s current ... Read more »

Best Buy, Dell, Among EPA’s Electronics Recycling Challenge Leaders

September 24, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Best Buy, Dell, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Sprint and Staples are among the electronics manufacturers and retailers recognized by the EPA for their achievements in used electronics stewardship under the Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Challenge. The companies’ environmental achievements include diverting more than 220,000 metric tons of used ... Read more »

Goodyear Converts Rice Husk Waste to Fuel-Efficient Tire Treads

September 23, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is using rice husk waste to produce fuel-efficient tires. Goodyear says it will utilize ash left over from the burning of rice husks to produce electricity as an environmentally friendly source of silica for use in its tires. The company has tested silica derived from ... Read more »

Outerwall to Recycle 2 Million Pounds of Mobile Devices

September 23, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Outerwall says it expects to collect at least 2 million pounds of mobile phones, tablets, and other devices and accessories over the next three years through its ecoATM recycling kiosks, which accept electronics for reuse and recycling, helping to divert e-waste from landfills. More than 1.8 billion mobile phones were ... Read more »

Best Buy Recycles 1bn Pounds Electronics, Appliances

September 22, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Best Buy has now recycled 1 billion pounds of electronic and large appliance waste in just six years, according to Electronic Recyclers International. At an event commemorating the retailer’s accomplishment, Best Buy revealed a number of statistics and data it gathered in a nationwide survey surrounding consumers and e-waste, ERI ... Read more »

Century Foods Achieve Zero Waste to Landfill

September 18, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Century Foods International of Hormel Foods reached a recycling rate of 93 percent in 2013 and achieved zero-waste-to-landfill status at all four of its plant locations last October, earning it the company’s 2013 Environmental Sustainability Best of the Best award. Century Foods International employees combined a number of efforts to ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: Call2Recycle, Waste Management, Aquafor, ABB

September 17, 2014July 3, 2017 by Ken Jennison

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Call2Recycle: The battery stewardship organization has named Leo Raudys (pictured) vice president of program development. Raudys previously directed the environmental sustainability portfolio for Best Buy. Waste Management: The waste management and environmental services company has announced that Bill ... Read more »

‘Smart’ Industrial Waste Management on Rise

September 17, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The global industrial waste management services market earned revenues of $387.40 billion in 2013 and will reach $750.09 billion in 2020, according to analysis by Frost & Sullivan. The analysis says regulations that facilitate a shift away from landfill toward more value-adding segments such as recycling are lending momentum to ... Read more »

Carton Recycling Network Formed

September 15, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Carton Council of North America has formed a Carton Recycling Champions network, a group of companies committed to improving carton recycling. Inaugural members are: Boxed Water Is Better, Crystal Creamery, Dean Foods, Fat Tuesday, GoodBelly, Just Beverages, Kemps, Leahy-IFP, Pacific Foods, The ReWall Company, Turner Dairy Farms and WhiteWave ... Read more »

How to Stop Cell Phone E-Waste

September 9, 2014September 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Manufacturers can take steps to lessen cell phone waste, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News. Customers will buy more than 1.8 billion new cell phones by the end of this year, and they’ll recycle only 3 percent of them. Alex Scott, a senior editor at C&EN, notes ... Read more »

Apple Faces Pollution Charges — Again

September 9, 2014September 11, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

An Apple supplier in China making iPhone and iPad parts violated a number of health and safety, environmental and human rights laws, according to a report released by China Labor Watch and Green America. The company investigated, called Catcher, manufactures metal iPad, MacBook and iPhone covers in its Suqian facilities, ... Read more »

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