Self-Cleaning Water Filter Lowers Water Treatment Costs, Uses Less Energy
Spiral Water Technologies will showcase its self-cleaning water treatment filter, designed to address the challenges of difficult-to-treat waters, at Aquatech Amsterdam. The company says its Spiral...
View ArticleChemical Export Guidance is in REACH for NA Companies
North-American based companies that export chemicals or mixtures to the European Union now have a source of advice and support to meet their regulatory obligations under EU REACH, thanks to a...
View ArticleACI Members Reduce Water Use 21%
Members of the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) have reduced the water used per ton of production by 21 percent between 2009 and 2013, according to the ACI’s 2015 Sustainability Report. Thirty-three...
View ArticleTop 10 Best Corporate Citizens Ranked
Ecolab, Campbell Soup and Microsoft are among the Top 10 Best Corporate Citizens, according to Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s fifth annual ranking. CR Magazine announced the top performers in the...
View ArticleSustainability Goals That Boost Program Integration: Business-Relevant Goals
One of the most stubborn barriers to embedding sustainability throughout an organization is that the connection to everyone’s job isn’t clear in the way that optimizing profit is. Business-relevant...
View ArticleIndustry Attacks Clean Power Plan in Court
More than 20 businesses and industry organizations have filed lawsuits to overturn the Clean Power Plan. Immediately after the EPA published the carbon rule for existing power plants last Friday, 24...
View ArticleWater Treatment Prevents Costly Plant Shutdowns
Water and wastewater treatment provider ACWA Services’ nitrate removal system has helped Yorkshire Water combat rising nitrate levels, which had previously necessitated costly plant shutdowns. Nitrate...
View ArticleNestlé to Use How2Recycle Label on Packaging
Nestlé is the newest member of the How2Recycle Label Program, which provides on-package recycling information to keep recoverable materials out of landfills. Selected Nestlé USA and Purina brands will...
View ArticleProper Materials Storage Fundamental to E-Recycling
Proper storage of materials is a fundamental element of the electronics recycling R2 Standard that is addressed in Provision 9, according to SERI, which manages the R2 recycling standard. While the...
View ArticleProgressive Water Treatment Turns Previously Rejected Water into Freshwater
Water treatment provider OriginClear says that a system built by its wholly owned subsidiary, Dallas-based Progressive Water Treatment, is recovering 700 gallons per minute (gpm) of previously rejected...
View ArticleAre Biodegradable iPhone Displays Next?
University of Missouri researchers are using organic components in screen displays to develop biodegradable electronics. The researchers’ advancements could one day help reduce e-waste in the world’s...
View ArticleEnding Fossil Fuel Subsidies Would Slash Global Emissions by 2020
Removing fossil fuel subsidies would significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions within five years, according to research by the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Nordic...
View ArticleSustainability Leaders as Conveners
After a great panel discussion at NAEM’s annual conference, I overheard a conversation of two attendees. “Unilever is really undertaking some excellent sustainability initiatives. But they’ve got real...
View ArticleModern Water Introduces Oil In Water Monitor Into US Market
Water technology and monitoring company Modern Water has launched a range of oil in water monitoring products in the US and has supplied a Multisensor 1200 volatile organic compound (VOC) monitor to...
View ArticleVeolia Starts Up Campo Dalías Desalination Plant
The Campo Dalías desalination plant, one of the biggest in Europe, will begin producing more than 97 million liters of desalinated water per day beginning next month, according to Veolia, which...
View ArticleB&W to EPA: Limit Landfill Methane Emissions
Calling for more stringent limits on methane emissions, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises has provided formal comments to the EPA’s proposed emissions rules for municipal solid waste landfills. Methane,...
View ArticleCan Google Open Data Initiative Build Environmentally Sustainable Buildings?
Google, in partnership with thinkstep, building architecture and engineering efficiency firm Flux and the Healthy Building Network have launched a free database that aims to promote environmentally...
View ArticleDesalination Plants to Double by 2020
Increasing global water scarcity has opened up vast avenues for growth in the desalination market, according to a Frost & Sullivan report. Analysis of Global Desalination Market, finds that the...
View ArticleTop Environmental, Health and Safety Violators Ranked
Eight large corporations have each been penalized more than $1 billion in environmental, health and safety cases brought by federal regulatory agencies since 2010, according to a new database called...
View ArticleEnergy-Related CO2 Emissions Drop in 37 US States
Between 2000 and 2013, energy-related CO2 emissions fell in 37 states and rose in 13 states, according to a new report from the US Energy Information Administration. Maine saw the greatest percentage...
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