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The former head of the EPA gives insight into Apple as its new head of environmental initiatives.
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The company's Ralphs/Food 4 Less division is using biogas to power a California distribution center.
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The Environmental Defense Fund aims to find environmental -- and financial -- opportunities at smaller companies with a new program for private equity firms.
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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.
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OfficeMax’s business customers can sign up to receive Boomerang Boxes, which will be reused over and over until they’re worn out.
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McDonald's and Starbucks stand out at leading examples of what fast food companies should do to lower the impacts of their packaging.
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Although drink companies opposes can and bottle desposits -- which create the highest recycling rates -- there's tenative support for recycling programs funded by industry.
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Paper product maker Tork finds benefits in certifying something that seems like fact: Napkins are compostable.
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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 of Mexico are among the stories we're looking at this morning.
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Colleges and universities give lessons on how to increase recycling and reduce waste.
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Virtually all of the waste coming out of Honda's North American manufacturing plants goes somewhere other than landfill.
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A company better know for delivering mail and packages highlights its recycling and waste hauling services.
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One-third more non-bottle plastic was recycled in 2009 than 2008, brought on by increased demand for post-consumer plastic.
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RecycleMatch updated its web-based service this month to make getting rid of trash a mix of eBay and Craigslist.
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Chemicals company Genomatica has partnered with Waste Management to turn gas from trash into chemicals with the help of organisms.
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Four of United Biscuits' snack-making facilities no longer send trash to be tossed in landfill.
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Italy has joined the ranks of San Francisco and Mexico City in banning the use of plastic shopping bags.
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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 plants churn out.
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The United Kingdom's Environment Department proposed higher recycling goals for plastic and steel packaging for the next two years in order to meet European Union targets, while keeping rates for other materials steady.
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Kimberly-Clark is eliminating waste from toilet paper rolls by getting rid of the cardboard tubes.
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Starbucks is using New York City as a testing ground for recycling its ubiquitous coffee cups. If successful, it could mean the 3 billion cups it uses each year go to the recycling bin instead of landfill.
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Recycling glass used to be challenge in Kansas City, but a non-profit, brewery and insulation maker have turned that around with Ripple Glass, a company that has its sights set on doubling the city's glass recycling rate.
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In a little over a year, a Caterpillar plant increased its monthly recycling rate from 30 percent to more than 80 percent through a partnership with Waste Management, making recycling more accessible to employees and collecting more materials.
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Waste upcycler TerraCycle has entered a partnership with Frito-Lay to turn trash from Doritos, Fritos and other snacks into tote bags, pencil cases and, eventually, building materials. Their first goal: Collect 5 million snack bags.