Covanta Plant Recycles Metals from Waste-to-Energy Facilities
Covanta has started up its new metal recycling processing operation in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. The facility cleans and sorts metal materials recovered from a number of Covanta’s energy-from-waste...
View ArticleMaking the Business Case for a Circular Economy
The financial opportunities and environmental benefits of a circular economy in the electronics sector – where waste becomes a resource for new products – was the focus of the recent Emerging Green...
View ArticleUsing the Internet of Things to Cut Cleaning Costs
Tennant’s latest cleaning operations product uses the Internet of Things to help customers’ reduce cleaning costs, improve cleaning efficiency, and enhance machine and employee productivity. The IRIS...
View ArticleSpray Foam, Made with Recycled Content, Can Earn Builders 10 LEED Points
Demilec, a manufacturer of spray foam products, has released its newest Heatlok closed-cell spray foam insulation product, Heatlok XT, which now contains more than 20 percent renewable and recycled...
View ArticleWater Focus Reports Aid Customers’ Water-Use Assessments, Conservation
To help customers assess their water management and aid in their conservation efforts during the drought, California Water Service has partnered with Badger Meter to send customers an individualized,...
View ArticleMajor Firms Test Natural Capital Protocol
Major global companies including Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical and Shell will begin testing the Natural Capital Protocol, which aims to help businesses improve their decision making by standardizing how...
View ArticleCarbon Pricing Beats Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards
Currently planned fuel economy standards (extended to the year 2050) would cost 10 percent of the economy’s global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2050, compared with only 6 percent under cap-and-trade...
View ArticleEPA Freight Industry Award Winners Revealed
The EPA has announced the 2015 winners of the SmartWay Excellence Awards for retailers, manufacturers and logistics companies. The awards honors the top performing SmartWay partner companies that...
View ArticleDesigning for Bale Value
As anyone who has attended a recycling conference or followed the industry in the past year knows, the plummeting prices of recycled commodities have been front and center. More recently, a series of...
View ArticleProfitable Business Case for Total Decarbonization, Siemens Says
In a Climate TV interview, Jan Rabe, Siemens’ sustainability director, discusses why the major industrial company has set out to become climate neutral by 2030. “We are not doing it for altruistic...
View ArticleHelp for Companies Seeking ISO 9001, ISO 14001 Certification
With the updates this year to ISO 9001 quality management systems and ISO 14001 environmental management systems, and in light of the 2018 transition deadline, Bureau Veritas is launching a suite of...
View ArticleProduct Sustainability Programs Drive Sales for Food and Beverage Companies
Nearly half of food and beverage companies with product sustainability programs report that sales have increased as a result of those programs, according to a new report from sustainability consulting...
View ArticleIllegal E-Waste Dumping Charges Cost GES its R2 Certification
Global Environmental Services’ electronics recycling R2 certification has been suspended following reports that GES operated an illegal dump, using a bulldozer to bury CRTs and other electronic...
View ArticleTruck Owners Can Receive $65k for Replacing Diesel Trucks with Natural Gas
Truck owners operating in California may receive a $65,000 grant for every diesel truck that they replace with a new natural gas model. Clean Energy Fuels wants to help truck owners apply for...
View ArticleCarpet, Mattress Recycling Made Simple
Two how-to guides for recycling scrap carpet and used mattresses have been released by the Product Stewardship Institute. PSI says 50,000 mattresses are discarded each day in the US, or about 20...
View ArticleNestlé’s Water Bottling Operations Target of Lawsuit
In another attempt to shut down Nestlé’s bottled water operations in drought-stricken California, environmental groups have sued the US Forest Service, alleging the agency allowed Nestlé to pump...
View ArticleGreening the Convention
While conventions can be very lucrative for the hosting cities, when you stop to think about it, they are anything but beneficial for the environment. Just the amount of fuel required for thousands of...
View ArticleNext-Gen Water Utility Software With Advanced Pipe Break, Leakage Modeling
Smart water technology company Innovyze has released the V12 Generation of InfoWater for ArcGIS with advanced pipe break and leakage modeling for water utilities and engineering firms. Globally, water...
View ArticleAir Quality Monitoring System Can Be 95% Recycled
Environnement SA has launched the e-Series of air quality analyzers, designed with special consideration to the environmental impacts of the product during its whole lifecycle. The measurement modules...
View ArticleMajor Firms Call for Climate Agreement in Paris
Fourteen major companies based or with large-scale operations in the US have voiced strong support for a new global climate agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year. In a...
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