Category: Miscellaneous

May 17, 2019

In an effort to stop people from illegally dumping trash, the city of Phoenix has installed cameras in four regions of the city to catch violators in the act. On May 15, a camera in an alley near Third Street […]

May 16, 2019

Electronic waste (e-waste) is a fast-growing segment of the world’s waste stream, and as companies release new and improved products, consumers and businesses are quick to part with their old devices and invest in the new. In an effort to […]

May 15, 2019

Retired Naval Officer Victor Vescovo dove nearly 36,000 feet in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench only to find what appears to be plastic waste. According to The Guardian, Vescovo is still trying to confirm that the material he found is […]

May 13, 2019

With the May 10 vote to add new measures to restrict and bring disclosure to plastic waste trade through the U.N. Basel Convention, the years-long tremor shaking up plastic recycling became a massive earthquake. Countries will now have the right […]

May 7, 2019

Tendril’s acquisitions are allowing it to beef up its customer engagement and load monitoring capabilities at a time when both of those have captured utilities’ focus. EnergySavvy develops both customer-facing and internal systems, which Tendril will now merge with its […]

May 6, 2019

In the fifth episode of our NothingWasted! Podcast, we chat with Sarah Womer, founder of Zero to Go, an education-based waste management company focused on composting and recycling in Hudson Valley, N.Y. We got to speak with her about growing […]

April 29, 2019

Together with Parley for the Oceans, Adidas introduced in 2015 the first performance footwear concept with an upper made entirely of yarns and filaments reclaimed and recycled from marine plastic waste and illegal deep-sea gillnets. In 2019, Adidas said it […]

April 24, 2019

HP Inc. announced a $2 million investment to expand its ocean-bound plastic supply chain. The company will build a new plastic washing line in Haiti that will allow it to produce cleaner, higher quality recycled plastic locally for use in […]

April 23, 2019

Apple just announced a major expansion of its recycling programs, quadrupling the number of locations U.S. customers can send their iPhone to be disassembled by Daisy, its recycling robot. Daisy will disassemble and recycle select used iPhones returned to Best […]

April 23, 2019

PepsiCo Recycling just announced the 27 colleges and universities set to earn funding for campus sustainability initiatives in the 2018-19 school year through the company’s Zero Impact Fund (ZIF). Among the most unique projects in this year’s winning group include […]

April 19, 2019

Nestlé and French grocery store chain Carrefour are partnering with IBM’s Food Trust blockchain to track the supply chain of Mousline puree—instant mashed potatoes—to see how effective the technology is. According to a CoinGeek report, Carrefour had already been involved […]

April 12, 2019

During its 2019 sustainability milestone summit, Walmart announced that for the first time, checkout carousels at its U.S. stores will include reusable bags that will be available to customers for purchase. The aim of this new campaign is to help […]

April 2, 2019

At the end of March, Natural Grocers estimates it eliminated more than 300 million single-use plastic bags and reached $1 million in total donations to food banks associated with all 152 Natural Grocers stores. Since Earth Day 2009, Natural Grocers […]

March 25, 2019

Starbucks just announced it is testing a compostable cup in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Vancouver and London. The new cup looks like Starbucks’ current paper cup, but instead of a plastic liner inside, the compostable option has a biodegradable […]

March 22, 2019

On the first day of spring, national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful launched its 2019 Great American Cleanup, the nation’s largest community improvement program. Through this far-reaching effort, which takes place March 20-June 20, Keep America Beautiful and its network of […]

March 19, 2019

Nestlé and Veolia, a resource management company, announced their collaboration to work on waste collection, sorting and recycling of plastic material, with an emphasis on flexible plastic packaging. Projects will focus on 11 priority countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America […]

March 19, 2019

Hilton’s Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton by Hilton and All Suites brands are launching the Clean the World Challenge in partnership with Clean the World, a global health leader dedicated to sustainability and water, sanitization and health. Embassy Suites by Hilton, […]

March 15, 2019

The Coca-Cola Foundation extended $5.4 million of charitable grants to organizations working on ambitious plans for improving recycling in its hometown of Atlanta and other cities across the country. The Recycling Partnership, The Green Blue Institute in Orlando, Keep Houston […]

March 13, 2019

Gillette, in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle, announced for the first time in the U.S., all brands of disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and razor plastic packaging are recyclable on a national scale. “Through this innovative, first-of-its-kind program, disposable […]

February 28, 2019

As part of its ongoing commitment to tackling the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans, SC Johnson has announced it will launch the industry’s first product that uses 100 percent recycled ocean plastic in a major home cleaning brand. […]