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Argos tackles landfill waste
High street retailer Argos is trialling a new process for the waste arriving at its distribution centres from stores, with the aim of diverting its waste from landfill. Distribution project manager Mark Jones told MRW: “The trial, focusing on Magna Park (Lutterworth, Leicestershire) distribution centre and around 170 selected Argos stores, involves minimising landfill waste by increasing ...
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Eaton Honors 39 Facilities for Achieving Zero Waste-to-Landfill
Power management company Eaton in 2013 reduced its landfilled wastes by about 18 percent, or 4,900 metric tons, as part of a global zero waste-to-landfill program. During World Environment Month in June, Eaton is honoring 39 manufacturing facilities around the globe that have achieved this milestone. Since 2010, these facilities have eliminated a combined total of 2,750 metric tons of waste ...
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Eaton’s Serres-Castet Plant Recognized for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero
Power management company Eaton is recognizing its Serres-Castet facility near Pau, France, 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 manufacturing sites to achieve zero waste-to-landfill as part of its waste management program and also as a means to reduce the ...
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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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Eaton’s Aerospace Facility in Titchfield Honored for Reducing Waste Through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Eaton is honoring employees at its aerospace facility in Titchfield, 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 the release of ...
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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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Eaton’s Bedhampton Plant Recognized for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is recognizing its aerospace facility in Bedhampton, England 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 manufacturing sites to achieve zero waste-to-landfill as part of its waste management program and also as a means to ...
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Eaton’s Hydraulics Operations in Gainesboro, Tennessee, Recognized for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is recognizing its Hydraulics Operations facilities in Gainesboro, Tennessee, 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 manufacturing sites to achieve zero waste-to-landfill as part of its waste management program and ...
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Asda store set to send zero waste to landfill
Retail store Asda has reiterated its pledge to send zero waste to landfill from its store in Bootle, Merseyside. Asda is working with Veolia Environmental Services to divert all its waste away from landfill. The store opened in October last year and previously diverted 99% of its operational waste away from landfill (see MRW story). Asda has now removed the store’s waste compactor and has ...
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Eaton’s Greenwood, South Carolina Plant Recognized for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is recognizing its hydraulics facility in Greenwood 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 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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Eaton’s Tczew Plants Honored for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is honoring its two facilities located at the Tczew campus 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 manufacturing sites to achieve zero waste-to-landfill as part of its waste management program and also as a means to ...
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Eaton’s Auburn, Indiana Plant Recognized for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is recognizing its clutch manufacturing plant in Auburn, Indiana, 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 manufacturing sites to achieve zero waste-to-landfill as part of its waste management program and also as a ...
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Eaton’s Tczew Plants Honored for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is honoring its two facilities located at the Tczew campus for achieving “zero waste-to-landfill” by nearly eliminating all wastes sent to landfills through recycling, re-use, new work processes and other means. “With help from Eaton’s Corporate Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) staff, our Tczew facilities were able to integrate new ...
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Eaton’s Berea, Ohio Plant Recognized for Reducing Waste, GHG Emissions through Zero Waste-to-Landfill Program
Power management company Eaton is recognizing its hydraulics facility in Berea, Ohio for achieving “zero waste-to-landfill” by nearly eliminating all wastes sent to landfills through recycling, re-use, new work processes and other means. The Berea plant is the first Eaton facility in Ohio to be recognized for zero waste to landfill. Together, more than 50 Eaton sites around the world ...
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Majority of people keen to recycle
The majority of residents in Edinburgh and Midlothian are recycling regularly, with four out of five people admitting that they now recycle, according to the results of a new survey. The survey conducted by Keep Scotland Beautiful and commissioned by Edinburgh and Midlothian councils, looked at public attitudes to waste in preparation for Scotland’s Zero Waste Plan which is to be published later ...
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Waste Management to Help Customers Achieve UL Environment’s Zero Waste Validation
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) today announced it is helping customers validate their zero waste initiatives by employing an offering by UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories). “While there are vague and often conflicting definitions of Zero Waste circulating in the industry, it is a designation many businesses, communities and schools across North America ...
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Sunny Delight Beverages Co. plants achieve zero waste to landfill
The Sunny Delight Beverages Co. (SDBC) announced today that all six of its manufacturing sites have already reached their sustainability goal of sending zero waste to landfills by 2013. This goal was achieved by the company's Anaheim, Calif.; Littleton, Mass.; and Mataro, Spain plants in 2009 -- four years ahead of schedule -- its South Brunswick, N.J. and Atlanta, Ga. plants earlier this year, ...
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Smurfit Kappa Recycling gives Argos a helping hand
Packaging recycler Smurfit Kappa Recycling is working with retail giant Argos to help the chain work achieve its ‘zero waste’ to landfill target. Smurfit Kappa Recycling has been working with Argos since September 2006 to divert more than 30,000 tonnes of cardboard and soft plastic waste from landfill. In 2005, Argos set itself a target of achieving zero waste to landfill by 2010. Argos stores ...
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IKEA raises recycling awareness
Furniture retailer IKEA has partnered with waste management firm Viridor in a bid to raise recycling awareness among its employees in order to try and achieve zero waste to landfill. The Recycle for IKEA training and awareness programme was launched on May 28 at the retailer’s distribution centre in Peterborough with a roadshow organised by Viridor to highlight how important recycling is in ...
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First council commits to halving construction waste
Fife is the first council to commit to halving construction waste sent to landfill by 2012 under a cross sector agreement organised by the Waste & Resources Action Programme. The council is the third largest local authority in Scotland and has set itself strict waste reduction targets. It has also set a target of achieving and exceeding zero waste to landfill by 2012. Scottish Government ...
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