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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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Sustainability is steadily becoming strategically integrated into all departments at hospitals and health care systems.
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Discussion of waste within the context of the built environment. From the 2013 State of Green Business Report.
November 9-11, hackers came together at Code for America's Headquarters for "Hack City" - a 3 day-long Cleanweb hackathon at VERGE.
World Water Week seminar aimed to coordinate tools used by companies seeking better management and stewardship of water resources.
Making sustainability matter was no easy task at the 30,000-student institution that's Iowa's biggest educator, health care provider, and sporting draw.
While the company will still be taking solid waste to landfills, it's searching for more ways to keep it out of the ground.
With the volume of global solid waste projected to double by 2025, waste management companies are sitting pretty, even as other businesses seek to slash their trash.
Due to risks associated with upgrade projects or the age of the building itself, cost savings aren't always maximized. Learn how to shift your risk while offering incentives to others.
With hundreds of thousands of spectators eating and drinking at the London Olympics every day, the organizers have a plan to keep all that waste out of landfills.
Marks & Spencer recently released a poll showing that British consumers annually dump nearly $142 million of clothing worn just once into landfills.
As landfill waste reduction strategies become a part of the corporate norm, can UL Environment pioneer new validation standards?
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and several other Fortune 500 companies are working to address the supply shortages that have stymied the goal of make the 100-percent plant-based plastic bottle ubiquitous.
Los Angeles joins San Francisco and Santa Cruz -- along with Mexico City, Italy and others -- to prohibit stores from distributing disposable plastic bags.
Join Waste Management and GreenBiz Group on this live webcast as they discuss opportunities to learn from innovative waste-diversion programs already under way, reducing waste, saving money, and...
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.
RecycleMatch, a Houston startup that runs an online marketplace for waste, is changing its business model. It now will help big companies sell their waste through cloud-based software.
DuPont's buildings division went from sending 81 million pounds of waste to landfill in 2008 to zero in 2012. Here's how they did it.
Kendall-Jackson Winery already has been saving $2.5 million annually from energy-efficiency projects for the last few years. Now it's taking its energy strategy to a new level with solar...
The partnership among three federal agencies and the footwear giant is looking for game-changing innovations to transform waste management systems in both the developed and developing worlds.
Marty Metro, the CEO of UsedCardboardBoxes.com talks about why recycling isn't the always the best idea for corrugated cardboard, and how to create a new market for the ubiquitous cardboardbox...
With just eight years remaining for Interface to reach its target of zero environmental footprint by 2020, it's clear that there's no more low-hanging fruit. How does a company adapt to a...
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