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Leading companies are finding that a comprehensive waste-reduction strategy can provide significant financial benefits -- not just by reducing purchases of unneeded materials, but also reducing real estate and energy costs from having to store and transport them. This may require conducting waste audits, engaging in employee education, working with vendors, and engaging in measuring and reporting of waste to identify cost-effective waste-reduction opportunities.
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Organic waste makes up approximately 30 percent of the annual U.S. waste, so cutting it is key to meeting waste-diversion or zero-landfill goals. Here's what you need to know to succeed....
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GreenBiz.com's fourth annual Green Buildings Market & Impact report finds continued growth in certified green buildings, especially overseas, as the business benefits of green buildings become......
Just how well are LEED-certified buildings doing in making real-world environmental and energy improvements?...
The hotel giant will collect and donate used soap bars to the Global Soap Project and invest $1.3 million to broaden the group's processing capabilities....
The head of sustainability at one of the world's most innovative companies kicked of the 2011 Innovation Forum with a look at how Nike tackles innovation, how its helping other companies get up to......
Eighteen months after I first profiled Cisco's efforts to cut their packaging waste -- and save big bucks in the process -- I got a chance to see if the project is thriving or struggling....
The company has set an ambitious goal to make its 27-year-old Frito-Lay manufacturing facility in Arizona a "near net zero" consumer of energy and water. Here's how it's progressing....
While U.K. companies are taking steps to embed sustainability into their business practices, the pace and breadth falls short of the progress that needs to be made to address major challenges such......
A new study pokes holes in the belief that a switch to natural gas will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Coca-Cola will add heavy-duty electric delivery vehicles in North America, and other news......
In a groundbreaking partnership with eBay, Patagonia is launching what is a radical act for the fashion-forward clothing industry: Encouraging customers to buy used clothing and buy new stuff that......
Unilever hits its zero-waste-to-landfill goal for its U.K. manufacturing options, American Le Mans Racing hops on the green bandwagon, and more in our morning news roundup....
More than US$1 billion in food gets thrown away every year in the UK, more voices criticize the New York Times' anti-green-jobs coverage, and other news in our morning roundup....
If you look at it from a purely business perspective, paying someone to take away a revenue stream is just a bad idea. Here are the lessons you can learn from zero-waste projects from Walmart,......
The world has come a long way from some of the hippie dreams of the 1970s, although the far-out ideas for creating sustainable spaces to live and work in are rapidly becoming reality....
A U.K. plant that would convert waste to energy stalls before it's even built, Japan passing a bill to subsidize renewable energy and the U.S. possibly requiring disclosure of fracking......
Paper product maker Tork finds benefits in certifying something that seems like fact: Napkins are compostable....
Lend Lease, a low-profile property development firm that has cornered the market on military housing, is in the midst of building two of the largest solar-powered communities in the nation....
Fish dumped due to the European Union's fish quota system, fees for recycling and composting in the U.K., and the effect recent floods had on the oxygen-deprived "dead zone" in the Gulf......
Sony's progress toward environmental goals, the struggle to reduce use of plastic shopping bags, the Army's work to recycle more than 3,000 tons of contaminated steel made green headlines today.......
The European Union's new toy regulations, how women are finding roles in the cleantech industry, Best Buy's new sustainability report and Netle's zero waste work at a Kit Kat plant are among the......
TerraCycle has built a business around taking other companies' trash and turning it into treasure. It's a surprisingly tough sell sometimes, but here's how you make the case that it's not trash,......
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