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Hospitals Cut Waste By Recycling Single-Use Devices

Hospitals are starting to recycle and reuse items that are labeled for single use - scissors, scrubs, even surgical blades. The Wall Street Journal (via Earth First) writes that the idea is to save money and clean up the waste stream. Of course, there...

Published 03-19-2008 7:28 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Waste, Healthcare, Recycling, Strategy & Leadership

BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10%

BASF has published its Report 2007, which for the first time combines the company’s financial and sustainability reporting in a single publication. The combination of financial and sustainability reporting has been gaining attention lately. In 2007...

Published 03-12-2008 8:00 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Europe, Major Players, Reporting, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Waste, Industrial Goods, CSR Reports, Finance & Reporting

Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing

By studying the Earth’s biosphere, managers can learn how to build ecologically friendly products that reduce manufacturing costs, Gregory Unruh writes in the Dallas Morning News. To make recycling easier, manufacturers should think fewer materials...

Published 03-10-2008 4:34 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Waste, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Recycling, Products & Planning

Sony Recycles Commercials To Promote Recycling

Sony has pulled some old commercials out of the closet to promote dozens of free consumer recycling events, AdAge reports. The outdated equipment in the commercials is supposed to emphasize the idea that Sony is “recycling our old commercials to...

Published 03-06-2008 10:46 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Waste, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Hi-Tech, Recycling, Research & Technology

Environmental Concerns Give Garbage Disposals New Life In Europe

InSinkErator, a unit of Emerson Electric, had virtually no sales in Europe in the early 1990s, where garbage disposals are often seen as a convenience that wastes water and clogs pipes - they’re even banned in Portugal, Austria and the Netherlands...

Published 02-28-2008 9:53 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Europe, Waste, Marketing, Water, Products & Planning

Cadbury Unveils Eco-Eggs

Cadbury has unveiled a range of ‘eco-eggs’ called Cadbury Treasure Eggs, which rather than being sold in a box is simply foil wrapped. The Treasure Eggs represent a reduction of over 75 percent plastic and 65 percent less cardboard than previously...

Published 02-20-2008 10:41 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Europe, Major Players, Waste, Business-to-Consumer, Products & Planning, Retail & Restaurants

Subaru Among Companies Nearing Zero-Waste

Subaru says that 99.8 percent of the refuse from its Indiana plant - on track to produce 180,000 cars this year - is recycled or reused so it doesn’t go to a landfill, including about five percent that goes to a waste-to-energy plant that burns...

Published 02-19-2008 2:32 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Waste, Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Recycling, Strategy & Leadership

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts

According to the EPA, consumer electronics accounted for almost 1.5 percent of 250 million tons of trash in 2006, and according to a report from the International Association of Electronics Recyclers, in 2006, 15 to 20 percent of electronic waste was...

Published 01-31-2008 2:56 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Waste, Pollution, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Business Services, Government, Efficiency, Electricity, Consumption, Recycling, Hazardous Waste, Products & Planning

Pro Sports Go Green

When the Philadelphia Eagles launched its Go Green campaign in 2003, it was the first pro athletic team to implement a major environmental initiative. Over the next five years, other teams joined the eco-friendly bandwagon. Even the Super Bowl has been...

Published 01-31-2008 11:02 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Major Players, Facilities, Waste, Pollution, U.S., Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Electricity, Recycling, Wind Energy, Strategy & Leadership, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Waste Management Launches Green Consumer Website

Waste Management launched thinkgreen.com, a marketing campaign that includes an interactive Website that shows consumers how to manage the four-and-a-half pounds of waste the average citizen generates each day. Thinkgreen.com features a landfill tour...

Published 01-29-2008 12:40 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Major Players, Facilities, Waste, U.S., Marketing, Business-to-Consumer, Recycling, Products & Planning

L.A. Plastic Bag Ban Unravels

Los Angeles County supervisors retreated from a threat to ban plastic bags and instead opted for a volunteer program that leaves it to supermarket and store owners to coax customers into packing their purchases in reusable containers, reports the LA Times...

Published 01-25-2008 1:38 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Waste, Pollution, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Government, Recycling, Hazardous Waste, Policy & Law

National Geographic Puts E-Waste Under Microscope

According to the U.S. EPA, 30-40 million PCs will be ready for “end-of-the-life management” in each of the next few years. The EPA also estimated that in 2005, between 1.5 and 1.9 million tons of computers, TVs, VCRs, monitors, cell phones...

Published 01-14-2008 1:25 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Global, Business-to-Business, Waste, Hi-Tech, Research & Technology

Coke Tapped for Tappening

In an effort to raise awareness on “tappening,” Mark DiMassimo, creative director of marketing shop DiMassimo Goldstein, and Eric Yaverbaum, president of PR agency Ericho Communications, is launching a PR campaign that entails sending one...

Published 01-10-2008 11:41 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Waste, Marketing, Recycling, Water, Products & Planning

CES Pushing Green Message

The International Consumer Electronics Show, opening in Vegas today, is going greener this year in part of a broader PR campaign to lessen the perceived reputation of an energy-guzzling business that produces products that aren’t easily recycled...

Published 01-07-2008 10:11 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Sustainability, Waste, U.S., Hi-Tech, Electricity, Recycling, Research & Technology, Carbon Offsets/RECs

Austin Hopes To Go Zero Waste By 2040

Austin, Texas hopes to reduce the trash sent to landfills by 20 percent by 2012 and eventually achieve zero waste by 2040. The city recently hired the California firm of Gary Liss and Associates to spend half a year writing a plan to reduce to zero the...

Published 01-04-2008 9:58 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Sustainability, Waste, U.S., Recycling, Policy & Law

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