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Study: Financial firms are going green.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Andrew Coen In a move that likely will make environmentalist and actor Ed Begley Jr. proud, financial services firms are taking steps to make their offices green. In a recent survey of 124 financial services firm executives, 54 firms planning to build a new ...

Aluminum recovery; Can recycling rate rebounds after 2006 dropoff.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Joe Truini The U.S. aluminum industry is applauding a 2.2-percent hike in the used beverage can recycling rate last year after falling off in 2006. The nation's aluminum can recycling increased from 51.6 percent in 2006 to 53.8 percent in 2007, as Americans ...

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Aug 04, 2008 ... PRETTY IN PINK: Sherman Rogers, left, owner of All Waste LLC in Shelby Township, Mich., had his companies' roll-off ...

Data management firm aims for high impact.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Jim Johnson NetApp, a data management company, is really not interested in being environmentally conscious just to jump on the green bandwagon and gain attention. Sure, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has been recognized by the California Integrated Waste ...

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Aug 04, 2008 ... STAINLESS STEEL FLOOR: The Allianz 3000 from Allianz Sweeper includes a center-mounted hopper for ...

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Aug 04, 2008 ... VERSATILE SYSTEM: Heil Environmental has improved the integration ...

Teaching tots trash; Preschoolers learn where waste winds up, and why.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Chrissy Kadleck When posed with the question "Where does garbage go?'' two preschool teachers from the Central Ohio Technical College Child Development Center answered their group of young inquiring minds with more than trash talk. Jeannette Dixon, along with ...

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Aug 04, 2008 ... SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE: Sandra Maxwell of Waste Management's Suburban Landfill in ...

Waste Generator Briefs.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Beer Brewing Anheuser-Busch turns to green energy One in seven Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. beers will be brought to you by renewable energy by the end of 2009, according to the company. Its Houston and Fairfield, Calif., breweries are installing ...

Company to create phone network of service providers.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Jim Johnson Aaron Beals sees the popularity and success of toll-free phone numbers that sell flowers and contact lenses and wants to do the same for the waste business. Beals brings an advertising and marketing background to an effort to tie a national ...

EPA boss rebuffs Senate panel's request to testify.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson has declined to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, citing the "great lengths to which EPA has worked and the considerable resources we have devoted to accommodating Congressional requests for information.'' ...

Caqpital Briefs; A summary of recent developments in federal.

Aug 04, 2008 ... LEGISLATION General Environment California: Assembly Bill 2720 makes technical changes to the California Environmental Quality Act that prohibits an environmental impact report for any project involving the purchase of a school site or the construction of a new ...

Wash. company creates eco-friendly sneaker.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Joe Truini Brooks Sports Inc. has released the industry's first biodegradable running shoe. "Runners want performance gear that not only feels good when running, but also instills pride in the brand they're sporting,'' said Rick Wilhelm, vice president of ...

Waste Connections says it's in acquisition mode.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Connections Inc. is planning for a potentially very busy last half of the year on the acquisition front, indicating that it has access to half a billion dollars to pay for deals. And the Folsom, Calif.-based solid waste management company ...

Rising prices pique investor interest in waste.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Thao Hua One man's trash is another's alpha. Investment strategies in waste management including trash collection, separation, disposal and recycling are gaining institutional interest as landfills globally are reaching capacity at the same time that ...

Chicago bids to privatize commercial biz; "Customers don't win'.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Greg Hinz Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is moving to take control of the city's commercial trash-hauling industry in a complex scheme that would yield the city millions of dollars a year in new fee income. Under a plan that was expected to be introduced in ...

EPA's Johnson postpones decision on renewable fuel.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson delayed a decision originally due by July 24 on a request by Texas Gov. Rick Perry for a waiver from the Renewable Fuels Standard. The EPA, under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, is required to ensure that ...

Recycling thieves thrive in S.F., NYC, elsewhere.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Joe Truini It's a wacky world when one's trash isn't even safe from thieves. Organized theft of curbside recyclables is increasing in frequency, as well as brazenness, creating financial and safety issues for municipalities, their recycling contractors and ...

Ohio's challenges at forefront of forum.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Megan Greenwalt Columbus, Ohio It was appropriate that the Foundry Sands Recycling Forum was held on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Although the focus was on soil applications throughout the Midwest at the July 23 event, it quickly became ...

EPA boss puts "gag order' on employees.

Aug 04, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman The U.S. EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance sent an e-mail to managers last month instructing them to not respond to questions or make any statements if contacted by congressional investigators, reporters or the agency's inspector ...