Canada Fibers Creates Solid Waste Recycling Initiatives
Canada Fibers has created an affiliate named Urban Resource Group that will focus on production of high-quality sustainable products from solid waste. Canada Fibers’ solid waste recovery operations...
View ArticleGEA Acquires Hygienic Pumps Supplier
Technology group GEA has acquired Hilge, a leading supplier of hygienic pumps, especially stainless steel pumps for food and beverage applications. The company is based at Bodenheim, Germany and...
View ArticleAkzoNobel’s Carbon Credits Methodology Wins Environmental Award
AkzoNobel’s carbon credits methodology for the shipping industry has won the Best Offsetting Project award in the 2015 Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings. The first of its kind within the shipping...
View ArticleHow Companies Can Adapt to Climate Change
Climate change poses a host of risks to businesses, from infrastructure damage caused by extreme weather events to increased price volatility of raw materials and reputational risks. A McKinsey &...
View ArticleEriez Opens Dedicated Recycling Test Center
Eriez has launched a purpose-built recycling separation test center at its European headquarters near Caerphilly in South Wales, UK, which allows customers to test their materials and see how Eriez...
View ArticleBiosolid Drying System Turns Revenue Drain into Revenue Source
A mid-sized Arkansas city has eliminated transportation and landfill costs associated with biosolid waste disposal by using Therma-Flite’s Bio-Scru thermal dryer. The city needed a system that could...
View ArticleInvestors Pushing for Methane Emissions Rules Now Worth $1.5 Trillion
California public school teachers and religious charities. New York police officers and firefighters. A college endowment. What do all of these groups have in common? They happen to be investors...
View ArticleRethinking Sustainability in the Supply Chain
Executives from leading companies including Michael Kobori (Levi Strauss & Co), Tim Mohin (AMD), and Mary Wroten (Ford Motor Company) sat down with Ceres at the Ceres Conference to discuss their...
View ArticleIonex Water Treatment Removes Nitrates With Near-Zero Waste
Ionex has debuted its technology to remove nitrates from drinking water in a process that reduces operational and waste-disposal costs. The UK-based company specializes in the research, design, build,...
View ArticleOracle Data Capture Makes Utilities’ Metering Operations More Efficient
Oracle Utilities has launched DataConnect, a data extraction feature for Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing and Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management that allows utilities to more easily...
View ArticleP&G Joins The Recycling Partnership
Procter & Gamble has joined The Recycling Partnership, which aims to increase recycling in the US. P&G has a no-waste-to-landfill goal, says Stephen Sikra, Procter & Gamble’s global leader...
View ArticleMaterial, Design Key to Landfill Capping
Landfill caps should be designed using appropriate materials and with stability in mind, according to Agru America, manufacturer of MicroSpike Liner. While geomembranes, predominately linear...
View ArticlePre-Treating Sludge Cuts Waste, Increases Methane Generation
Aerothermal Group has announced that pre-treating sewage sludge in an autoclave increased methane generation by 47 percent, according to report, Effect of Autoclaving on Anaerobic Biodegradation of...
View ArticleGE, Statoil Seek Ways to Reduce, Reuse Shale Development Water
General Electric and Statoil’s Sustainability Collaboration has launched the call for entries for its second Open Innovation Challenge focusing on water usage in the development of onshore...
View ArticleApex Expands Oil & Gas Environmental Management
Apex, an energy, water resources and environmental consulting and engineering firm, has acquired InterTech Environmental & Engineering, an environmental management firm specializing in the oil and...
View ArticleTentative Settlement in the Deepwater Horizon Case
There was a tentative settlement last week in the Clean Water Act lawsuit that the US government brought against BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The settlement is tentative in the sense...
View ArticleSustainability Pays Off for Harbec
Manufacturing company Harbec’s Bob Bechtold says sustainability is a positive impact on the bottom line.
View ArticleISRI Updates Scrap Recycling Specifications
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries has published new specifications in the Scrap Specifications Circular 2015. The ISRI board of directors has approved three amendments, two additions and one...
View ArticleHow Does Your Business Respond to Global Risks?
Anthesis has launched a support tool, RiskHorizon, to help businesses operating in a climate-constrained world. Climate change poses direct risks to businesses and investors due to shifts in weather...
View ArticleABUTEC, Venture Engineering Create Custom NGL Processing System
Advanced Burner Technologies (ABUTEC) and Venture Engineering have created a custom natural gas liquid (NGL) adsorption system to help a natural gas production company in Southwestern Pennsylvania meet...
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