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Waste Awareness Week Aims to Boost Student Engagement with Sustainable Practices

The Renewable Energy Association and other environmental student organizations are hosting Waste Awareness Week to highlight the consequences of global waste mismanagement. Events take place Monday through Friday and include movie screenings, workshops and an art exhibition. Chirine Chidiac, REA programming committee member and third-year civil engineering student, said each day of Waste Awareness Week […]

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World’s First Plastic-Free Flight Takes Off – But Will Other Airlines Follow Suit?

Portuguese carrier Hi Fly operated the pioneering ‘plastics-free’ flight, on an Airbus A340 jetting between Lisbon and Natal in Brazil on December 26th. It is the world’s first passenger flight without a single-use plastic item on board. The flight was the first of four such trials over the holiday period, carrying a total of over […]

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SnowGlobe Teams Up with Waste-Free Earth, Sugar Pine Foundation and Others for Sustainable Festival

Each year SnowGlobe and their partners Waste-Free Earth, Chris’s Cleaning, Full Circle Compost and South Tahoe Refuse work together on reducing and reusing the waste created at the festival, and with the Sugarpine Foundation to plant trees for future forests. Coordinators evaluate the waste that is coming through the event’s waste stream each year and […]

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3M to Embed Sustainability into Every New Product

3M launches approximately 1,000 new products each year, and, starting in 2019, 100 percent of them will have Sustainability built in: Every new product will be required to have a sustainability Value Commitment that demonstrates how it drives impact for the greater good. This new, formal requirement is important because it embeds sustainability into the pipeline […]

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Wise Material Usage Through Sustainable Materials Management: An Imperative for Our Future

Sustainable Materials Management involves creating and encouraging others to form more business ventures and entrepreneurial programs by using materials in a sustainable way. By John Bradburn The southern states have developed many industries over the last several years that have benefitted their local communities. However, along with growth comes a need to develop sustainable systems […]

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Environment Minister Releases Ontario’s New Environment Plan

Environment Minister Rod Phillips has released Ontario’s Environment Plan. The plan is broad in scope and includes the government’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The plan outlines the government policy direction on waste management for Ontario. Specific action items that will be of interest to OWMA members include: Reduce and divert food and organic […]

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Colgate-Palmolive Company Accepts ‘All In On Recycling’ Challenge

Global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive Company is joining The Recycling Partnership and PepsiCo Foundation’s recycling challenge – All In On Recycling. Colgate’s support of The Recycling Partnership is part of the All In On Recycling challenge, which kicked off with a $10 million investment from the PepsiCo Foundation this summer. The goal of this largest […]

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Green Jobs Growing Across Central Massachussets

According to the United Nations Environment Program, a green job is defined as “work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and development, administrative, and service activities that contribute(s) substantially to preserving or restoring environmental quality.” Green jobs encompass anything from renewable energy jobs to green building jobs; jobs in the organic industry; and policy, planning and scientific jobs […]

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Kent County, MI’s Sustainable Business Park Master Plan Provides Opportunity for Partnerships and Innovative Approaches to Waste Management

The Kent County Board of Public Works approved the Sustainable Business Park Master Plan for 250 acres adjacent to the South Kent Land ll in Byron Center at their meeting on Oct. 4. The Sustainable Business Park Master Plan was created by local and national experts over the course of 12 months and includes details […]

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NERC Announces 2018 Environmental Sustainability Leadership Award Winners

The Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) presented its 2018 Environmental Sustainability Leadership Awards at a celebration attended by more than 150 people. Three outstanding programs in the Northeast were recognized: The Connecticut What’s IN, What’s OUT Campaign PaintCare The Village of Scarsdale, New York “This is the second year of NERC’s Environmental Sustainability Leadership Awards and […]

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