Business Guide to Waste Reduction and Recycling

Business Guide to Waste Reduction and Recycling
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1993-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781568063188

Discusses motivation for and implementation of waste reduction and recycling programs, organizing team effort, analyzing waste generation and disposal systems, identifying source reduction and reuse opportunities, developing collection and storage systems, establishing vendor contracts, conducting employee education and publicity campaign. Includes directories of recycling contacts and waste exchanges. Charts, graphs and drawings. Resource section. Highly rated!

The Directory of Directories

The Directory of Directories
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1983
Genre: Directories
ISBN:

An annotated guide to business and industrial directories, professional and scientific rosters, and other lists and guides of all kinds.

Recycling and Waste Management Guide to the Internet

Recycling and Waste Management Guide to the Internet
Author: Roger M. Guttentag
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This handy reference includes more than 350 website listings, indexed by subject heading and site name. Websites cover all aspects of recycling and waste management, including solid waste management, waste reduction, pollution prevention, market development, design for the environment, 'buy recycled' and re-use, and glass, metals, paper, and plastics.

Manufacturing from Recyclables

Manufacturing from Recyclables
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1999-02
Genre:
ISBN: 0788176056

A study of how recycling collection programs operate and generate a supply of discarded material for scrap-based manufacturers. Will be of interest to people in many sectors: recycling coordinators can identify potential markets for their recovered materials; manufacturers will see improved feedstock quality from better educated suppliers; entrepreneurs can gain insight into successful operations; and economic developers can weigh the benefits a community might reap from such facilities. The 24 case studies contained here represent a sample of state-of-the-art scrap-based manufacturers. Tables.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business
Author: Heather Gadonniex
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101057653

Green is the color of money! Businesses are always looking to increase their profitability and market share. With rising costs of fuel and consumers targeting environmentally-responsible companies to patronize, businesses have jumped on the green initiative and reaped the financial benefits. The Complete Idiot's GuideĀ® to Greening Your Business provides the most up-to-date, concrete, and practical steps for readers to follow to get rich by going green. *Solid authors with "green" background *White-hot green market *Comprehensive, practical business approach

Pollution Prevention

Pollution Prevention
Author: Ryan Dupont
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 842
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1315351439

This new edition has been revised throughout, and adds several sections, including: lean manufacturing and design for the environment, low impact development and green infrastructure, green science and engineering, and sustainability. It presents strategies to reduce waste from the source of materials development through to recycling, and examines the basic concepts of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of different pollutants. It includes case studies from several industries, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, metals, electronics, petrochemicals, refineries, and more. It also addresses the economic considerations for each pollution prevention approach.