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5 Easy Ways to Reduce Office Waste

September 4, 2013

These days pretty much everyone has realized the benefits of reducing waste in the office, both in terms of monetary savings and bragging rights for improved brand image. As a result, you would be hard pressed to find an operation that doesn’t at least have bins available for employees to recycle paper, plastic, aluminum, and glass. But there’s a lot more to reducing waste than simply encouraging employees to use scrap paper for non-essential printing tasks, or set their computers…

TerraCycle Teams Up to Recycle Cigarette Butts

September 2, 2013

So, is it any surprise that cigarette butts would also cause a lot of mayhem? As a matter of fact, according to CigaretteLitter.org, it is estimated that well over several trillion cigarette butts are littered around the world on an annual basis. It is so much of a problem that reportedly, cigarette butts are actually the most littered item in the United States. When you think about the things that can do harm to our physical health, cigarettes would have…

$2.9 Trillion In Annual Savings… From Businesses Simply Cutting Waste! (VIDEO)

August 21, 2013

Originally published on PlanetSave.com Did you know that McKinsey & Co. has estimated that the world could save $2.9 trillion annually just by eliminating wasted energy? The following video explains how… and so much more! In the video, Jonathan T. Scott, who has helped hundreds of companies in over a dozen countries save millions of dollars in costs, explains how and why businesses can reduce unnecessary expenses and increase profits by understanding the basic building blocks of sustainability. The information…

Earth Overshoot Day Means Humanity Is Bouncing Our Ecological Checks

August 21, 2013

Anyone who has had their own bank account knows this simple equation: withdraw more than you’ve got, and you’ll overdraw your account and start owing people money. Unfortunately, it looks like the Earth is officially bouncing its ecological checks as of today – Earth Overshoot Day – the approximate day our resource consumption in a given year exceeds the planet’s ability to replenish itself. While it’s only a rough estimate of how fast humanity is drawing down our ecological bank…

Panel: Entrepreneurship in Solid Waste Management, July 24 at 2 pm EST

July 23, 2013

Waste Management presents a huge opportunity for inventive entrepreneurs to create sustainable business models around the world. For the third panel discussion on Be Waste Wise, I will have an opportunity to engage in a conversation about waste management with two entrepreneurs who are disrupting the way we think about being in the waste business. WHEN: July 24, 2013 @ 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm WHERE: www.wastewise.be Follow the conversation on twitter through #wastewise About the Panelists Tom Szaky is the CEO…

Panel Discussion: Compatibility Between Recycling and Waste-to-Energy, July 17

July 15, 2013

Recycling is a growing sector with an estimated potential for the creation of 1.5 million new jobs in the United States alone. The second panel discussion from Waste Wise explores how recycling potential can be increased, and the compatibility between recycling efforts and waste-to-energy programs. Waste-to-Energy addresses the need for society to address its energy demands and by turning waste that is land filled into fuel saves both space and creates a useful resource out of something that is usually thrown…

Waste Wise Turns the Volume Up on Waste Management Solutions. Join in

July 8, 2013

The need for real, actionable, sustainable expertise on waste solutions is critical in both developing and developed economies. However, practical expertise has been slow to spread.

Thought leadership is concentrated in only a few parts of the world and the current methods of sharing expertise and knowledge such as, dense and lengthy reports and global conferences are limited in their ability to reach a wide variety and number of stakeholders. Enter Waste Wise, a simple and innovative idea. Waste Wise plans to conduct online video panels with experts from across the waste spectrum using Google+ Hangouts, broadcast them live, and then publish content for ready use by decision makers, policy analysts, experts and advocates.

California’s Crumbling San Onofre Nuclear Plant Finally Closes for Good

June 10, 2013

In a huge victory for both clean energy and environmental advocates, the Edison Power Company announced on Friday that its troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant will be permanently shuttered.