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Massachusetts businesses, including hotels, will likely face new regulations in mid-2014 banning food waste as the state grapples with limited disposal capacity.

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.

A coalition of health care systems issues a six-point agenda on how to transform the industry by tackling waste, runaway energy consumption, lax supply chains and other obstacles to sustainability...

The company has now reduced its global waste generation by 50 percent since 2005, far surpassing a goal to pare down waste by just 15 percent by 2011.

The metal mining sector pushed disposal and other releases ot toxic chemicals and metals up 16 percent in 2010, following years of decline.

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.

Sodexo aims to push Ohio Stadium's landfill diversion rate to 90 percent through recycling and composting.

 Although drink companies opposes can and bottle desposits -- which create the highest recycling rates -- there's tenative support for recycling programs funded by industry.

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...