Green Business Solutions

Articles on waste management

• Reclaimed Water to Offset Your Hand Lotion's Impact on Marine Species? Ocean wastewater discharge has become even more questionable as wastewater contains a growing number of contaminants of emerging concern, and fresh water becomes more scarce.
  
• Recycling Plastic - The Forever Resource What happens when we lose plastic? Where does it go? How long does it last? What is the solution for all these quadratons of waste plastic?
  
• Los Angeles Apartment Buildings Escalate Recyling Impact Recycling and reduction of waste are vital for a cleaner, greener and more sustainable city.
  
• How to Reduce Food Waste at Thanksgiving Communities run on their stomachs! Food is a major waste management challenge...and you can help. Even over the holidays!
  
• Sunken Median Stormwater Biofiltration Safeguards the Beach along Santa Monica Bay Biofiltration fits snugly between lanes of traffic and between the industrial runoff from a major highway, sanitation processing plant and residential communities...and the ocean. Keep that pollution out of our oceans!
  
• California Funds Communities’ Efforts to Clean Up Trash Illegal dumping activity poses a hazard to the public and the environment. CIWMB will help clean it up across the state.
  
• Green Materials Composting is an Urban to Ag Solutions from Agromin Green waste is no longer wasted in landfills -- it is increasingly composted for mulch and compost soil amendments. Agromin in Oxnard is one of the nation's largest composters.
  
• Wastewater management for the rest of us! Fresh water is a precious commodity ... and getting more precious as climate change and exploding populations stress our arid region's supply of fresh water. Think... reclamation!
  
• The Santitation District's Role in Water Conservation Green marketing is about more than advertising and promotion. It is also about being a reputable member of your community -- and letting the public know what you do to protect and serve them.
  
• Dual-flush Converter Kit saves Water and Money Save water with simple options for the use of your toilet. Little steps matter greatly over time and around the globe when global weather patterns are all connected
  
• Multi-family Waste Management for A, B and C Class Properties Customer service isn't dead...it's just hybernating like the bear...awaiting new ideas with a green waste management mentality!
  
• Recycled Content Hits Economic Downturn Waste management requires use of recycled content to make it feasible to pick up, sort and reprocess waste paper, steel, etc. It's time to think creatively and long term!
  
• Low Hanging Fruit During Hard Economic Times Behavior changes are the low hanging fruit that are the easiest and least costly sustainable business practices during tough economic times.
  
• LIST of California Recycling Resources Solid waste recycling programs in California
  
• Recycling Business Strategies for Natural Resource Conservation and Reuse Recycling Business Strategies for Natural Resource Conservation and Reuse of Waste and Scrap Materials
  
• Hazardous Waste, A Growing Market in Europe Europe's tightening legislation for hazardous waste is growing the need for green solutions such as thermal treatment, physical/chemical treatment, stabilization and recycling.
  
• Solutions for the electronic waste that is now an environmental crisis. Recycling and reusing obsolete electronic equipment are the preferred methods for handling eWaste.
  
• Southern California Conversion Technologies for Waste Los Angeles waste conversion technology project to achieve County of Los Angeles zero-waste goal
  
• Anarobic Digestion of Food Wastes and Wastewater Anaerobic digestion converts organic carbon into carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)- a concoction called biogas. Food waste can be anaerobically digested for energy value and landfill diversion.
  
• Green demolition (C&D) and retail building materials center opens in Los Angeles Reuse People of America, a San Francisco nonprofit, has opened a building materials deconstruction service and reuse retail warehouse in the city of Los Angeles.
  
• U.S. and Mexico agreement to clean up 3.5 million waste tires along the Border Tire Initiative Collaborative Effort to develop a market for waste tires and reduce tire piles in the US/Mexico border states.
  
• Turning the Tide on Trash: Marine Debris Curriculum Learn the definitions, characteristics, sources of marine debris, and ways to reduce or prevent marine debris.
  
• John Todd's EcoMachine to Reclaim Wastewater & Ecological Balance Wastewater treatment to reclaim water for recycling and create ecological systems
  
• Save Money & More Save Money and MORE! Easy, high impact saving tips for businesses, organizations, neighborhoods and communities
  
• Paper Recycling - Get Into the Real Story Socially responsible paper recycling is a supply chain effort from trees to virgin paper to recycled paper to buying recycled content products and responsibly retiring worn out paper fiber.
  
• ZERO Waste Communities GLA works with communities to establish short-term and long-term Zero Waste programs
  
• California Waste Reduction Awards Program Application Process All businesses and private nonprofit organizations with California facilities are encouraged to apply for an annual WRAP award.
  
• Recycle Video, Audio and Computer Tapes How to recycle various kinds of magnetic media: audio tapes, video tapes and computer tapes.
  
• Pharmaceutical Residues in Water Supply - Position Statement Effluents from centralized sewage treatment plants are the principal source pharmaceutical residues in water resources
  
• Paper Tips for Recycling, Reuse and Reduction Paper