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Measuring Carbon Savings is the Answer! What was the Question?

By Adam Gendell, Associate Director Sustainable Packaging Coalition, GreenBlue & SWEEP Steering Committee Member If your state reported that their waste diversion practices resulted in ...

Lifecycle Thinking Across the Value Chain

By Susan Robinson, Waste Management’s Senior Public Affairs Director and Co-Chair of SWEEP’s Steering Committee In early February, a group of over 100 stakeholders from ...

Defining Sustainable Materials Management for Local Communities

By Susan Robinson, Senior Public Affairs Director, Waste Management; Member, SWEEP Steering Committee Twenty to thirty years ago when we were first thinking about city-wide ...

A world free of waste, where materials are continually utilized for their full benefit without causing human health problems, environmental degradation or requiring excessive economic investment.

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