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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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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......
San Francisco bested contenders that included Vancouver, New York, Seattle, Denver and Boston in a study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by Siemens....
A company better know for delivering mail and packages highlights its recycling and waste hauling services....
Boeing's major U.S. operations diverted 73 percent of their nonhazardous solid waste from landfill in 2010, according to the company's latest environmental report, which details improvements in......
A seven-year-old company, backed by some A-list venture capital firms, is hellbent on nudging millions of people along a greener path , and making a bundle along the way. It just may pull it off......
Companies and investors discuss challenges around waste management, product disposal and material utilization, as well as new solutions and ideas for reusing waste, water and more. ...
Waste Management Inc. is investing in the largest composting facility in the eastern U.S. and building a new composting site in Florida -- moves aimed at expanding WM's work in organics recycling......
Walmart needed to find a home for its food waste that didn't involve a landfill. No such infrastructure existed so Walmart built one, with the help of Quest Recycling Services from Frisco, Texas......
Walmart's zero-waste program has diverted millions of tons of materials, such as aluminum, plastic and food waste from landfills, scoring points for avoiding incineration to convert waste to......
Food donation, recycling, and converting organic waste into compost, animal feed or energy all play a role in the cost-neutral program....
In London, disposable diapers can add up to 200,000 tonnes of solid waste annually, according to a local nonprofit that promotes reusable diapers,which may produce up to 40 percent fewer......
The Mail Preference Service allows residents to put an end to unwanted junk mail, such as credit offers, phone books and advertisements....
RecycleMatch updated its web-based service this month to make getting rid of trash a mix of eBay and Craigslist....
More than 50 jewelers, including Tiffany & Co., Zale Corp., and Jostens, have now signed on to a campaign launched in 2008 to boycott gold from a controversial mining project in Alaska....
Chemicals company Genomatica has partnered with Waste Management to turn gas from trash into chemicals with the help of organisms....
"Poo-Gloos," igloo-shaped domes that clean up wastewater, are able to strip pollution from sewage water as well as large, expensive treatment facilities....
Caterpillar Inc., the largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, has achieved 100 percent recycling at a manufacturing plant and a major logistics center in England, which have......
Dean Foods' Environmental 2013 Roadmap is designed to achieve a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and 30 percent decline in water use by 2013, both metrics measured per gallon of......
Using paint sludge to make engine-shipping containers and turning cardboard into car roof interiors are just a couple of the ways General Motors recycles or reuses the majority of the waste its......
Procter & Gamble has announced its first zero-waste-to-landfill manufacturing plant in North America in the latest move towards its goal of becoming a zero-waste company. The company has......
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