August 2019 Vol. 74 No. 8
Newsline
WasteWise Winners Divert Waste from Landfills
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced 10 winners of its 2018 WasteWise program, which encourages organizations and businesses to achieve sustainability in their practices and reduce select industrial wastes. For 2018, winners collectively prevented more than 356,000 tons of waste from entering landfills and saved their organizations more than $19.6 million in avoided landfill fees.
WasteWise is part of EPA’s Sustainable Materials Management efforts that promote the use and reuse of materials more productively over their entire life cycles.
Partners demonstrate how they reduce waste, practice environmental stewardship, and incorporate sustainable materials management into their waste-handling processes.
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