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Lifecycle Thinking: Helping Businesses Find the Rewards in Recycling

How can businesses move forward in today's global waste market? As policies change, how you think about your waste should too. Find out how lifecycle thinking can help.

Tools

Liquid Waste Calculator

Working with Covanta Environmental Solutions to treat and recycle wastewater has great benefits for the environment. Use our Liquid Waste Calculator to see just how much of a difference you can make.

Ebook

Doing Well by Doing Good: How Zero Waste-to-Landfill Benefits Business and the Environment

Due to the mounting impacts of climate change, the pressure is on for companies to have more sustainable practices as investors, consumers and regulators are paying more attention than ever to what businesses are doing to minimize their waste generation and landfill disposal. A popular approach that many leaders are embracing to manage waste is zero waste-to-landfill.

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5 Ways to Move Your Business Toward a Circular Economy

The value in pursuing a circular economy is becoming more apparent as markets shift with the climate, incentivizing businesses to make better use of their resources and mitigate the impacts of their operations on the environment. Interestingly enough, most businesses are closer than they think to meeting this goal—they just need the right direction.

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5 Ways Secure Destruction Protects Your Brand

All businesses produce waste, and when that waste is too risky to reuse, recycle or landfill, secure destruction is their best bet. It’s the safest, most environmentally friendly disposal option that protects your brand and keeps operations running smoothly.

Ebook

Climate Change Guide: How Better Waste Handling Drives Better Business

As the impacts of climate change close in on the planet, so too do the risks they pose to its economies, effectively shifting businesses toward more sustainable practices. Business leaders that act now and drive better waste and materials management within their own organizations may be able to make a swift and impactful difference.

Article

Turning Sustainability Risk Into Opportunity

Sustainability is grabbing the attention of mainstream global business and economic leaders. As companies seek to manage risk and capitalize on opportunity, many are seeing climate change as a key area of focus.

Case Study

Powering a Circular Economy - Greenpac Mill

Learn how Niagara Falls, NY, known for its tourism, is now leading the way in moving from a linear economy to a circular economy with the help of the co-location of several diverse industries.

Case Study

Movin’ On Up the Waste Hierarchy - Land O'Lakes

A combination of a de-packaging solution, recycling opportunities and anaerobic digestion transforms waste management at a Land O’Lakes, Inc. facility in Kent, Ohio.

Case Study

Pick Your Partners Well to Achieve Zero-Waste-to-Landfill - Superior Essex

The journey to zero-waste-to-landfill certification is neither quick nor easy. All of the pieces of the puzzle need to come together at the right time. For Superior Essex’s copper data cable manufacturing facility, the journey took a decade.

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Waste Calculator

Switching to Waste-to-Energy (WTE) disposal can significantly reduce your organization's environmental footprint. Use our Waste Calculator to see the impressive difference you can make.

White Paper

Zero-Waste-to-Landfill Verification: Is it Worth it?

What is zero-waste-to-landfill? At its core, zero-waste-to-landfill is exactly what it sounds like: diverting all wastes from landfill disposal.

White Paper

Waste and Climate: Reducing Your Footprint

When it comes to addressing climate change, we normally think of carbon pollution from power plants, cars, and heating our homes and businesses. However, how we manage materials and waste has a big impact on the climate.

Case Study

Waste-to-Energy Solutions Today Impact Tomorrow - Fareva

Being committed to the environment and finding ways to divert waste from landfills is not easy but these goals drive the employees and leaders at Fareva.

Case Study

Setting the Sustainability Pace - Parker Hannifin

Sometimes all it takes is one good example to drive change in an organization. A small team in Davenport, Iowa demonstrated that Energy-from-Waste solutions can make a big impact.

Case Study

Tiny Parts, Big Environmental Impact - Brewer Science

Microelectronics materials manufacturer earns zero-waste-to-landfill certification two years in a row as a result of a service partnership with Covanta Environmental Solutions.

Case Study

Achieving and Maintaining Zero-Landfill - Subaru

One significant first for Subaru of Indiana Automotive was to earn the distinction of being the first automotive assembly plant in the U.S. to achieve zero-landfill status, with some assistance from Covanta.

Case Study

Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials

Covanta Environmental Solutions routinely works with companies that have sensitive waste streams requiring secure destruction.

Case Study

Zero-Waste-to-Landfill - J+J Flooring Group

Russ Delozier, Director of Sustainability, J+J Flooring Group, and his team researched possible solutions and partners to get J+J to landfill‐free.

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The Importance of Zero-Landfill - Sunny Delight

Sunny Delight set a goal to be 100% landfill-free in a short time frame. Here’s their story.

Case Study

American Airlines Wheel and Brake Center

The wastewater from American Airlines Wheel and Brake Center is processed through our Liquid Direct Injection process, thus avoiding landfills and eliminating potential landfill leachate impacts.