Related topics:
Recommend this:
Austin, Texas hopes to reduce the trash sent to landfills by 20 percent by 2012 and eventually achieve zero waste by 2040. The city recently hired the California firm of Gary Liss and Associates to spend half a year writing a plan to reduce to zero the amount of garbage the city sends to landfills. With the plan, Austin will join other cities, such as Seattle and San Francisco, as well as other counties, who already have or are writing similar long-term solid waste plans.
Last year, Austin announced an aggressive climate protection plan that will cut its carbon dioxide emissions to almost nothing by 2020
Zero waste plans utilize both recycling and ways of preventing garbage from getting to landfills in the first place, such as penalizing customers who produce the most trash and offering incentives to businesses to reuse their packaging and products.
In addition to the plan, Austin will be opening a single-stream recycling facility in 2008 or 2009.
WEBCAST: CORPORATE WATER FOOTPRINTS CUT CARBON EMISSIONS - 1/16/09
Presented by Jack in the Box and HydroPoint. Register Now>>
CLEAR STANDARDS LAUNCHES SUSTAINABILITY 2.0 SOFTWARE
Next-generation sustainability and carbon management solution helps businesses increase profits and competitiveness. Learn more >>
BUSINESS CAN SUBSTANTIALLY CUT COSTS WITH WATER FOOTPRINTING
American Business Conferences & Lead Sponsor GE Water & Process Technologies, are hosting The Corporate Water Footprint Summit. Miami, FL on February 26-27, 2009 >>
As American consumers and businesses look for new ways to reduce the environmental impact of daily life, the notion of green buildings ... continue »
Retailers have entered a new age of corporate citizenship in which not only working conditions but environmental impacts of production and products ...
click to view full size chart »
Here's a in-house video from Fair Isaac - an interview with Christopher Rence, Fair Isaac vice president and chief information officer. Fair ...
Comments
Let’s look at the State of Texas and their paper useage before we start penalizing Joe Citizen. The State has policy on shredding and recycling but the proportion of paper useage vs recycle is 200:1. Calculate the State first and then let’s talk about household.
rap February 27th, 2008Im with this guy. There are plenty of things that should be looked at before they even think about charging me for having two extra bags of trash in a week.
Richard November 17th, 2008