waste reduction News
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Industry steps up recycling and waste reduction
Twenty-six WasteWise partners and 29 National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) partners are being recognized for their environmental achievements in reducing greenhouse gases and preventing harmful chemicals from entering the environment. Both EPA programs work with organizations to achieve environmental benefits beyond regulations. In addition, 13 students and professionals are ...
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MillerCoors leads with waste reduction achievements
MillerCoors today released its 2010 Sustainable Development report, titled "Great Beer, Great Responsibility," which details progress across the company"s corporate social responsibility commitments. The brewer succeeded in exceeding its 2015 goal for waste reduction, by eliminating 20 percent of the amount of waste sent to landfill. In total, the company reuses or recycles nearly 100 percent of ...
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UK government misses own waste reduction targets
The report namely, Greening Government Commitments, explains how “an ambitious framework of targets for reducing the UK government’s environmental impacts by 2014-15 against a 2009-10 baseline” had been set out. The government has failed to meet its own targets for cutting the environmental impact of the state’s operations, according to the Defra report quietly published ...
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University of Kansas hospital to be honored for reducing waste
The University of Kansas Hospital of Kansas City, Kan., will be honored next week by EPA for reducing its volume of solid waste through innovative recycling programs. EPA will present a 2011 WasteWise Gold Achievement Award for waste reduction in the workplace. The hospital has made significant strides in protecting the environment through recycling, waste reduction, environmentally preferable ...
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Courtyard by Marriott and Grappone Conference Center in Concord N.H. join EPA wastewise program (NH)
The Courtyard by Marriott & Grappone Conference Center recently joined EPA’s WasteWise program, becoming the first active WasteWise hospitality partner in NH. WasteWise partners are organizations that voluntarily set goals to reduce municipal solid waste. WasteWise works with hotels and other organizations to achieve cost savings, improve efficiency and reduce their climate footprint ...
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Three New England organizations recognized for reducing waste
Three WasteWise partners in New England were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for outstanding achievements as 2011 WasteWise award winners. Nationally, there were 29 winners, with awards in categories including business, government, and educational sectors. WasteWise is a free, voluntary partnership program that helps businesses reduce their environmental impact and ...
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Circular Economy can be a game-changer to reach ESR targets
Zero Waste Europe has responded to the consultation on the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) by highlighting the contribution that the waste sector can bring to a low-carbon economy, and calling the European Commission to have higher ambition. In the response Zero Waste Europe pointed out that the implementation of the Circular Economy Package could deliver far more GHG emission reductions than ...
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Cupertino honored as national food waste reduction innovation leader
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded the City of Cupertino (Calif.) its Food Recovery Challenge’s national Innovation Award for the city’s extensive efforts to reduce food waste. Cupertino’s efforts include leading-edge work to integrate food waste reduction goals into its business partnership with a local waste hauler and to aid local businesses compost their ...
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Stericycle® Wins 2011 Waste Reduction Award From Nation`s Leading State Authority on Recycling, Waste Reduction and Product Reuse
Stericycle announced that its priorities to move to a greener footprint by reducing, reusing, and recycling has resulted in receiving the 2011 Waste Reduction Award from the California Department of Resource Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). The award recognizes Stericycle for meeting waste diversion goals. This activity assists the state in further reducing landfill waste volume, and driving ...
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Hutchinson, Kan., correctional facility honored for reducing waste
The Hutchinson, Kan., Correctional Facility will be honored next week by EPA for reducing its volume of solid waste through innovative and aggressive recycling programs. EPA will present a WasteWise State Government Partner of the Year Award to the correctional facility. This honor is awarded annually to one State WasteWise partner in the country. WasteWise is a free, voluntary EPA program that ...
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U.S. EPA honors federal agencies for water conservation, waste reduction
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today recognized six federal agency offices in California with its prestigious Federal Green Challenge (FGC) program award for reducing their operations’ environmental impacts. EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld presented the awards to the Northern California agencies at a ceremony hosted by the Federal Executive Board in San ...
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Circular economy: MEPs call for “systemic change” to address resource scarcity
The EU needs to use natural resources more efficiently - a 30% increase in resource productivity by 2030 could boost its GDP by nearly 1% and create an extra 2 million sustainable jobs, say MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday. But to achieve this growth, it needs binding waste-reduction targets, revamped ecodesign laws and measures to uncouple growth from resource use, they add, calling on the ...
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ION Science - where sustainability is everything
Leading on sustainability is a popular aspiration for many businesses, but at ION Science, environmental protection was part of the company’s identity long before anthropogenic climate change was widely accepted. In the following article we explore the ways in which the company has built sustainability into everything it does, and how the benefits extend beyond environmental protection. ...
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Industry in the US Southeast steps up recycling and reducing waste
Eight WasteWise partners and National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) partners in the Southeast were recognized for their environmental achievements in reducing greenhouse gases and preventing harmful chemicals from entering the environment. Nationally, 26 WasteWise partners and 29 National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) were recognized. Both EPA programs work ...
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Recycling and land reuse practices can help fight climate change
There is much potential to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gases through recycling, waste reduction, smart growth, and by reusing formerly contaminated sites including brownfields. EPA’s report “Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials and Land Management Practices” finds that 42 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are influenced by materials management policies. ...
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College football fans compete to protect the environment
This fall, colleges across the country will compete to see which schools can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most waste as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2011 Game Day Challenge. Registration for the competition is now open, and champions will be crowned this December. Any college or university in the United States with a football team can compete. The ...
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Circular economy: “systemic change” needed to address resource scarcity
Binding waste-reduction targets, revamped ecodesign legislation and measures to break the link between growth and the use of natural resources are the chief demands set out in a resolution passed on Wednesday by environment MEPs,who call on the Commission to table new legislation by the end of 2015. “It is a vital step for the EU to use resources more efficiently and to reduce our ...
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Eaton’s South Molton Plant Honored for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is honoring its aerospace facility in South Molton, U.K, for achieving "zero waste-to-landfill" by nearly eliminating all wastes sent to landfills through strategies such as recycling, re-use and new work processes. Eaton is encouraging its manufacturing sites to achieve zero waste-to-landfill as part of its waste management program and also as a means to reduce ...
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The results are in: 2011 game day challenge winners
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the winners of the 2011 Game Day Challenge, a competition among U.S. colleges and universities with the goal of lowering waste generated at college football games and increasing participation in and awareness of waste reduction programs. As part of the challenge, more than 75 schools across the nation designed a waste reduction plan for ...
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Eaton`s Mississauga Ontario Electrical Distribution Centre Honored for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is honoring its Mississauga Distribution Centre facility in Ontario, Canada, for achieving “zero waste-to-landfill” by nearly eliminating all wastes sent to landfills through recycling, re-use, new work processes and other means. Eaton is encouraging its sites to achieve zero waste-to-landfill as part of its waste management program and also as a means ...
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