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The media company has partnered with Etsy on a competition urging people to create handcrafted items from repurposed materials, with celebrity judges deciding and announcing the winners during NBC's "Earth Week" celebration.
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The Mail Preference Service allows residents to put an end to unwanted junk mail, such as credit offers, phone books and advertisements.
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Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd., the world's third-largest independent Coke bottler, and the largest plastics recycler in Europe are teaming up to build a U.K. facility that's expected to more than double the country's production of high-grade recycled plastic, material suitable for beverage and food packaging.
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"Poo-Gloos," igloo-shaped domes that clean up wastewater, are able to strip pollution from sewage water as well as large, expensive treatment facilities.
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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 both saved thousands of dollars in costs while working toward a company goal of sending zero waste to landfill.<br />
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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 product produced. The company also intends to slash its solid waste generation by 30 percent.
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The company wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and water and energy each by 20 percent, while also halving its solid waste generation by 2015.
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A pilot project conducted by Sodexo on eight college campuses found that tracking and monitoring food waste can easily lead to reductions of nearly one-third in the amount of food sent to landfill.
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The company has surpassed a goal previously set for 2020, to have more than 100 certified wildlife habitat programs and 25,000 acres under its protection.
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Xerox has tapped an Australian company to help it collect and recycle customers' used toner and ink cartridges.
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Fed up with sending their kids' dirty diapers to the local landfill, three Bay Area families launched a business two years ago aimed at turning soiled diapers into compost used on farms, golf courses and plant nurseries.
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Johnson & Johnson is reporting double-digit reductions in carbon emissions, water use and waste, exceeding environmental goals in six areas while being on track with 2010 targets in another four key categories.
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Sara Lee has cut the amount of waste it sends to landfill by 32 percent in the last five years, and six of its facilities send no waste to landfill, although the total amount of waste the company produces has gone up 7 percent in that same time.
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U.K. supermarkets and grocery brands have prevented the creation of 1.2 million tonnes of food and packaging waste during the first five years of the Courtauld Commitment.
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The Plastic Disclosure Project is taking a page from carbon and water disclosure efforts by asking companies to report on their plastic use and management plans.
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The company launched a campaign this week called "Stop Wasting Food," aimed at reducing some of the 31 million tons of wasted food that ends up in U.S. landfills.
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Which waste is the best to convert to energy -- animal dung or leftover funnel cakes, corn dogs, cotton candy and other fairground favorites? That's what a Midwest scientist and a group of researchers are exploring at the Minnesota State Fair.
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Recycling and composting helped San Francisco divert 77 percent of its garbage from landfills in 2008, which it hailed as a national record and the highest of any city in the U.S.
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The Ohio-based juice maker also made strides in other 2011 environmental goals, Sunny Delight explained its 2009 Sustainability Report released this week, which spans several areas of its operation, including transportation and logistics, packaging, energy and water use, and waste.
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Kraft Foods has far exceeded its goal to reduce waste by 15 percent by 2011. The company cut its waste by 30 percent, now recycles or reuses 90 percent of its waste and has nine zero-waste-to-landfill facilities.
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The U.S. Conference of Mayors has thrown its weight behind the concept of expended producer responsibility, calling on Congress to support state governments in making the producers and consumers of certain products responsible for the products' disposal.
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Implementing a secure destruction program that recycles paper after being shredded helped the Stamford, Conn.-based company improve its recycled waste by 6 percent.
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Sainsbury's has invested in new technology that will allow the retailer to make real-time supply chain decisions to reduce food waste caused by unexpected weather.
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Kohl's Department Stores and hip upcycler TerraCycle are among the winners of the inaugural Edison Green Award Winners, the latest category to be added to the 23-year-old award competition that honors innovative new products and the companies that make them.
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From buying green power to reducing the amount of water it uses, Starbucks is on track to meet the majority of its long-term environmental goals, the coffee giant said Monday. One high-profile impact continues to vex the company: recycling.