Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized Odebrecht USA, in Coral Gables, Fla. as the WaterWise “Small Business Partner of the Year.” Nationally, 14 WasteWise participants, that include research ...
The New York City has barred food service establishments, stores and manufacturers from possessing, selling or using single service Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam articles or polystyrene loose fill packaging. The ban that has been ...
Tags: cups, plates, trays, Agriculture
Cardia Bioplastics has secured a two-year supply contract with Cleanaway and has received its first year order to deliver 7.8 million Cardia Compostable kitchen tidy bags and 50,000 Kitchen Tidy Bins for commercial roll out. Cleanaway ...
In 2013 each American household owned on average 28 electronic devices, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. But with advancing technology, sleeker, shinier and faster cell phones, computers, tablets, mp3 players and ...
Tags: cell phones, computers, tablets, mp3 players, Construction
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals (coal ash) from coal-fired power plants. The final rule establishes safeguards to ...
Tags: coal ash, ground water, Construction
Holcim Canada and Van Houtte Coffee Services Inc., a subsidiary of Keurig Canada Inc, are proud to team up to reduce their respective environmental footprints. The two companies recently introduced a new service to recover the energy ...
Tags: K-Cup Packs, Ccoffee Services, Agriculture
Few companies in the UK have come together to start work on a two-year project called 'Reflex,' with the hope of significantly improving the recyclability of flexible packaging and diverting more of it away from the landfill. The project ...
Tags: flexible packaging, landfill, Packaging
The greenhouse gas that is twenty times more harmful than carbon dioxide, methane, may become the feedstock for a material that helps reduce our dependency on plastic in its current form. Methane, as you know, is generated by the natural ...
Tags: methane, carbon dioxide, Packaging
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing an affordable and environment-friendly alternative for expanded polystyrene (EPS) from PLA bioplastic, which is derived from organic sources. This polystyrene alternative can be ...
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose will celebrate the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program at a tour of the nation’s first large-scale commercial anaerobic digestion facility, ...
Tags: Food Waste, Energy Conversion, Industrial
This holiday season, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages people to save money and protect the environment by reducing the amount of wasted food that gets thrown away. In 2011 alone, Americans generated 36 million tons ...
Tags: Food Waste, Agriculture
On Tuesday, November 25, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator and City of San Jose officials will tour the city’s Zero Waste Energy Development anaerobic digestion facility where ...
Tags: food waste, renewable energy, Agriculture
To begin the holiday season, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials toured the Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) and met with staff to discuss the importance of food waste reduction as part of the agency’s Food Recovery ...
Tags: Food Bank, food waste reduction, Agriculture
Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, recently earned a Most Valuable Pollution Prevention (MVP2) Award from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) in the USA. This ...
Tags: Crown Equipment, material handling
The K-cup coffee pods discarded in 2013 would have encircled the globe 10 times. Coffee pod sales have more than tripled in the last three years. Nespresso published a corporate backgrounder in March 2011 stating that 12,300 cups of ...
Tags: K-cup coffee, Nescafe Coffee