Business Operations

From the start, Priyanka Bakaya knew she wanted to do something impactful with her life. In 2011, she started the company Renewlogy, which is dedicated to renewing all waste, and she pioneered a technology for converting non-recycled plastic...

Several Brooklyn, N.Y., startup companies are hoping to help New York City achieve its zero waste goal, which calls for the end of sending waste to landfills by 2030...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) just released the year-end results of its Recycling Demand Champions effort, which was launched in 2017 to develop new end markets for recycled plastics...

CVS drugstore is known for having seriously long receipts—some receipts could measure out to the length of an adult human or a couch. A recently published Vox article also points out that CVS receipts have their own witty memes on social media...

Sodexo, a food services and facilities management company, announced a North American Single-Use Plastics Reduction Plan that will eliminate single-use plastic bags and stirrers by 2019; polystyrene foam items, such as cups, lids and food...

China’s ban restricting particular kinds of waste entering the country has presented many challenges for the U.S., which exports a significant amount of recyclable materials overseas for processing and reuse in the manufacturing of other goods...

Toter, North American manufacturer of curbside refuse and recycling carts, recently hosted the I Can Cart Art Competition, which brought artists together to paint 96-gallon Toter carts with themes of recycling, sustainability and the...