Climate Change Losses Cost $200 Billion over Last Decade
Economic losses from extreme weather events have risen from an annual global average of about $50 billion in the 1980s to close to $200 billion over the last decade, according to the report released...
View ArticleEPA Cuts Biofuel Goals
The EPA has proposed reducing the amount of ethanol blended into the US fuel supply for the first time since the renewable fuel requirements were passed by Congress in 2007. The agency’s 2014 Renewable...
View ArticleFrom Garbage to Goods: America’s Efforts for a More Sustainable Future
Recycling is at the forefront of everyone’s minds across the entire supply chain – from manufacturers to brand owners to consumers. Today’s purchasers are looking for packages that keep their food...
View ArticleUL Acquires Supply Chain Software Firm The Wercs
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has acquired supply chain software company The Wercs. The Wercs tools and services help companies handle, store, transport and dispose of products safely and in...
View ArticleAPPE Produces Recycled PET Bottle for Oji Beverage
PET packaging firm APPE, along with beverage maker Oji and consumer-foods group Hero, has produced a 100 percent recycled PET bottle for Oji’s fruit drink. The new bottle will help the company achieve...
View ArticleCollege Football Fans Recycle, Compost 1.5 Million Pounds of Material
During this collegiate football season, more than 85 schools across the US have recycled and composted cans and bottles, cardboard and food scraps, keeping about 1.5 million pounds of game-day waste...
View ArticleTailpipe Pollution Standards Could Cut Emissions 80%
Extending the vehicle emissions and fuel-quality standards already in place in the largest global vehicle markets would reduce near-term climate impacts through reductions in black carbon and other...
View ArticleXanterra Cuts National Parks’ Water Use, Pledges 25% Reduction by 2015
National park concessioner Xanterra Parks & Resorts has implemented several water-conservation initiatives at its properties as part of its goal to reduce water use by 25 percent from 2003 levels...
View ArticleStandards & Compliance Briefing: UL Paper Products, ICC Online Voting, LEED
UL Environment has launched its revised UL 175 Standard for Sanitary Paper Products. The standard consolidates, revises and updates the five EcoLogo certification criteria documents: CCD-082 Toilet...
View ArticleWill ASTM Environmental Site Assessment Changes Affect Your Business?
The recent changes to the ASTM E1527-13 standard may affect turnaround time and costs of Phase I environmental site assessments (ESA), PM Environmental says. The ASTM updates consist of...
View ArticleHow to Green Product Manufacturing
Manufacturing can cut CO2 emissions and costs by following five tips on making the product manufacturing process greener, reports Greener Ideal. Reduce waste: If possible, choose a material where you...
View ArticleReduce Your Firm’s Carbon Footprint in 12 Steps
Using the correct lighting, embracing waste-to-energy and maximizing sunlight are three of a dozen ways a company can reduce its water, energy and other resources used, according to a Xerox blog. On...
View ArticleEthanol Decision: Winners and Losers
The oil industry was not the only interest to win a victory when the EPA lowered biofuel quotas on Friday. The American Automobile Association said the proposal would prevent a “surge in gas prices or...
View ArticleBP Releases Oil Spill Cleanup Environmental Data
BP has released environmental data used in its efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico where its Macondo well spilled millions of barrels of oil in 2010. Since the oil spill, federal and state agencies,...
View ArticleProduct Environmental Footprint Policy: Are We There Yet?
Unfortunately I didn’t get to go to Berlin this year. The annual (and sometimes semi-annual) Product Environmental Footprinting (PEF) World Forum conferences in Berlin focusing on carbon footprinting,...
View ArticleRecycling Facility in NYC Saves Truck Trips, Money
A recycling facility will soon open in New York City — the city’s first large, state-of-the-art plant for recycling. The Sims Municipal Recycling Facility will process discarded metals, plastic and...
View ArticleP&G Uses More than 99% of Materials Entering Its Plants
More than 99.35% of all materials entering Procter & Gamble plants were used, either in products or through recycling, reuse, and conversion of waste to energy, according to the company’s 15th...
View ArticleVirgin, LanzaTech Low-Carbon Jet Fuel Earns Sustainability Certification
Biofuel developer LanzaTech has become the first company in the world to have its jet fuel certified by the independent Roundtable on Sustainable Biomass, moving its partnership with airline Virgin...
View ArticleJones Lang LaSalle Saves Money, Cuts E-Waste with MarkITx
Jones Lang LaSalle has teamed up with MarkITx to help the real estate brokerage firm and its clients realize capital and operating costs savings by using MarkITx’s exchange for enterprise IT hardware....
View ArticleCR Reporting Adoption Rate Slows, Study Finds
Corporate responsibility reports, once considered a niche activity only practiced by a few companies, has increased rapidly since 2000, but the rate of adoption has slowed in the past two years,...
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