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News / Food & Agriculture

Food wastage an 'enormous' global concern, G20 says

...landfills and is a large producer of methane gas, Vilsack said. In the United States, methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted from human activity. To fight the problem of food wast...

11 May 2015

Food wastage an 'enormous' global concern, G20 says

News / Waste

Global call seeks end to plastic bags, even 'green' ones

...landfills. To mark the 6th International Plastic Bag-free Day on July 3, environmental groups led by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and Zero Waste Europe organised various campaigns...

23 Jul 2015

Global call seeks end to plastic bags, even 'green' ones

News / Corporate Responsibility

Are corporates coming on board to tackle climate change?

...landfills somewhere. Instead these clothes can be fixed and restyled, and made fashionable again, thus lowering pollution. On the whole such initiatives have received positive feedback, although criti...

13 Jan 2016

Are corporates coming on board to tackle climate change?

Press Releases / EarthCheck

Twenty-six Carlson Rezidor Asia Pacific properties achieve EarthCheck

...landfill; a 36.9 per cent reduction, equivalent to 207 20ft standard cargo containers Combined, these resource savings equate to US$6,860,025. Mr Kirschke thanked EarthCheck’s Client Relatio...

4 Mar 2016

Twenty-six Carlson Rezidor Asia Pacific properties achieve EarthCheck

News / Cities

Delhi’s houses built on sand

...landfill, making it very susceptible to liquefaction. Karachi, in Pakistan, is somewhat safer, as a large part of the city is built on the hilly areas, and its seismic history is uncertain. Neverthele...

13 Apr 2016

Delhi’s houses built on sand

Press Releases / Keppel Corporation

Runcorn Energy-from-Waste plant phase 1 starts commercial operations

As one of the largest waste and renewable energy projects in Europe, this first phase of the facility will divert up to 425,000 tonnes of refuse-derived fuel from landfills annually. The Runcorn Ener...

10 Mar 2015

Runcorn Energy-from-Waste plant phase 1 starts commercial operations

News / Corporate Responsibility

Public response 'overwhelming' for Singapore's first EcoBank

...landfill at Pulau Semakau will run out of space by 2035. "The joint EcoBank project by CDL and Eco-Business is the first-of-its-kind in SIngapore, and is an example of a ground-up intiative that promo...

19 Jan 2016

Public response 'overwhelming' for Singapore's first EcoBank

News / Waste

Delhi's waste-to-energy plants ‘toxic, costly, inefficient’

...landfill sites and mixed waste as well. The study concluded that the cumulative cancer risk was found to be 2,792 per million population. Workers at landfill sites are at major risk. NIUA has made fo...

1 Apr 2015

Delhi's waste-to-energy plants ‘toxic, costly, inefficient’

News / Waste

Three more incinerators to burn mounting waste

...landfill sites are becoming full, making the need for additional incinerators more urgent. The waste from the incinerators uses 90 per cent less land. The three new incinerators, to be located in the ...

2 Feb 2015

Three more incinerators to burn mounting waste

News / Manufacturing

Australia's new carbon price fails to attract big polluters

...landfill-to-energy conversion. However the country's biggest emitter of carbon, energy producer and retailer AGL Energy Ltd, won subsidies to cut 948,500 tonnes of emissions via landfill projects. The...

24 Apr 2015

Australia's new carbon price fails to attract big polluters

News / Carbon & Climate

Smog-hit Chiang Mai still a draw, says TAT

...landfill at Chiang Mai University caught fire on Wednesday night but was put out within two hours. The cause of fire is being investigated.

13 Mar 2015

Smog-hit Chiang Mai still a draw, says TAT

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change

...landfills and manure, among others. Other human-induced emissions of methane come from changes to land use and the effects of climate change on wetlands, which are major producers of global methane. N...

14 Mar 2016

Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

16 game-changing climate action initiatives announced

...landfills. The E‐waste: From Toxic to Green initiative trains waste pickers in India to collect electronic waste, such as computers and mobile phones, for safe disposal and recycling. Read more about ...

29 Oct 2015

16 game-changing climate action initiatives announced

News / Green Buildings

'Green-mix' concrete: An environmentally friendly building material

...landfills. In this project, researchers at Universiti Teknologi MARA introduced an innovative green concrete called "green-mix concrete" that is designed and manufactured using conventional materials ...

29 May 2015

'Green-mix' concrete: An environmentally friendly building material

News / Corporate Responsibility

Building a ‘coalition of the willing’, one person at a time

...landfills, or get incinerated. We’re constantly trying to do better. Importantly, we’ve also put this pressure on our supplier base to make a commitment to reducing their carbon footprint. We’ve selec...

16 Dec 2016

Building a ‘coalition of the willing’, one person at a time

Videos / Corporate Responsibility

Profiting from people and planet through sustainable means

...landfill.” Biofuels is just one part of the company’s diverse product portfolio, which ranges from vitamins, enzymes and food ingredients, to non-edible chemicals in plastics, textiles and even solar ...

3 Jun 2016

Profiting from people and planet through sustainable means

Press Releases / GreenBlue Org

How2Recycle Label welcomes Nestlé USA and Purina as its newest member

...landfills. The brands join over 40 How2Recycle member companies using the label on packaging. “Nestlé’s adoption of the How2Recycle Label substantiates our commitment to contribute...

30 Oct 2015

How2Recycle Label welcomes Nestlé USA and Purina as its newest member

News / Food & Agriculture

Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5C limit unachievable

...landfill. Food waste costs the average UK family with children £700 per year. Second, cutting down on consumption of intensively-produced meat and dairy. Raising livestock is a much less efficient way...

28 Mar 2016

Failure to tackle food demand could make 1.5C limit unachievable

News / Manufacturing

How much water is in your shirt?

...landfills or the ocean, where they pollute ecosystems and ensnare wildlife. In the US, less than 10 per cent of plastic was recycled in 2012, with the rest constituting some 13 per cent of solid waste...

17 Sep 2015

How much water is in your shirt?

News / Water

How do we keep the oceans from becoming the world’s plastic trash can?

...landfills. “ We must manage plastic waste while minimising the amount of waste entering the system. Although one may think individual action is insignificant on the global scale, when taken in conjun...

9 Jun 2016

How do we keep the oceans from becoming the world’s plastic trash can?

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