NYSE Joins UN-Backed Sustainability Initiative
NYSE Euronext has joined a UN-backed initiative aimed at improving corporate transparency and the disclosure of non-financial information on environmental and social issues. The Sustainable Stock...
View ArticleGM Expands Landfill-Free Efforts
General Motors’ Rayong engine plant in Thailand and Cheongna proving ground in Korea are now landfill-free, bringing the company’s total to 33 sites throughout Asia that recycle, reuse or convert to...
View ArticleMcCarthy: Auto Regs Show We Can Work with Business
In her first speech as head of the EPA, Gina McCarthy has urged businesses to view climate change as an opportunity. She also said the agency’s experience with auto efficiency standards shows how it...
View ArticleWater Risks Threaten Profits, Say Metals and Mining Firms
Water risks threaten metals and mining companies’ growth prospects — but companies that are taking action now to manage water are better financial performers, according to analysis from Carbon...
View ArticleWorld’s Greenest Companies and What We Can Learn from Them
Eco-friendliness is more than just a trend. What started as hype in the business world about a decade ago is now a standard parameter to measure a company’s performance, success and value. Twenty years...
View ArticleSetting Sustainability Goals ‘Improves Bottom Line’
Firms that set tangible, public sustainability goals improve their financial and environmental performance, according to a white paper released today by CH2M Hill. Sustainability Goals that Make an...
View ArticleNYC Ad Campaign Touts ‘Recycle Everything’ Effort
Following the largest expansion of New York City’s recycling program in 25 years, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has unveiled a multi-channel consumer advertising campaign designed to drive awareness of...
View ArticleBest Buy Recycling Event Nabs 37K Pounds of Electronics
Best Buy Canada’s fifth year of Tech It Away Recycling events collected 37,000 pounds of electronics from Canadian homes for responsible recycling. This year’s events took place at six Best Buy stores...
View ArticleExecutive Recycling Owner Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Fraud
The owner of an Englewood, Colorado, electronics recycling company who was sending electronics waste overseas instead of recycling domestically has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a federal...
View ArticleIronman Events Chooses Waste Management to Reduce Waste, Increase Recycling
In an effort to reduce the environmental impact of its triathlon events, World Triathlon Corporation’s Ironman Series of events has chosen Waste Management as its official environmental solutions...
View ArticleUPS Sustainability Report: Two Facilities Reach Goal of Zero Waste
In UPS’s recently released annual Sustainability Report, the company states that it is aiming for zero waste, with two of its facilities achieving that goal in 2012. The company is incorporating the...
View ArticleCritical Considerations Can Mean Success or Failure for an EPR Program
Success in any industry invariably begets copycats. When a zombie movie dominates the box office, more zombie movies follow. And it’s not limited to just Hollywood. We’ve seen the same thing in public...
View ArticleEPA to Publish Companies’ Water Data
The EPA has proposed changing from paper to e-reporting in an attempt to modernize enforcement of the Clean Water Act, and plans to make companies’ data accessible to the public. The switch would make...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson, P&G to Phase Out Microbeads
Johnson & Johnson has begun to phase out the use of polyethylene microbeads in beauty products, and is developing an environmentally friendly alternative, after activists from environmental group...
View ArticleChanging Views on Paper Recycling
Finding ways to make paper a more sustainable commodity—mainly through the use of various recycling methods—has always been an important goal of the green and environmental movements. But in recent...
View ArticleChargePoint Launches Dual-Port EV Charging Station
ChargePoint has launched CT4000, an electric-vehicle charging station that taps a single circuit to power two charging ports. The company says the new model is cheaper to install than previous units....
View ArticleFood Industry Sent 4.1bn Pounds of Waste to Landfills, Study Says
Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers threw away 4.1 billion pounds of food waste in 2011, according to an assessment of data collected from the industry. The Food Waste Reduction Alliance, Grocery...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: Plumbing/Heating Pilot, Substances of Very...
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Standards Council of Canada have launched pilot projects to facilitate the development of joint Canada-US standards to serve public health and...
View ArticleFord F-150s to Run on Nat Gas; BMW Launches All-Electric i3
Ford’s 2014 F-150 will give customers the option of a gaseous-fuel prep kit on its 3.7-liter V6 engine, making it capable of running on compressed natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas. The truck will...
View ArticleHarvard Hires Sustainability VP After Divestment Campaign
Harvard University hired Jameela Pedicini as its first vice president for sustainable investment, a position created following a student-led activist campaign demanding the school divest its holdings...
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