Published March 2nd, 2010 at 11:59 am in Announcements, Growing Green Footprints with no comments
Tagged with safeway, sustainability consortium, systainability index, walmart, Waste Management
Safeway has become a founding member of the Sustainability Consortium, the group launched in support of Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Index.
The goal of the consortium is to develop guidelines and promote innovations as the supply chain seeks to reduce its energy use, emissions and packaging. The consortium made headlines in January when Wal-Mart and Best Buy, together with electronics suppliers Dell, HP, Intel and Toshiba, officially launched the effort.
The consortium is administered by Arizona State University and the University of Arkansas, with financial support from Wal-Mart.
The consortium has courted Safeway, in hopes that it would become involved in what could be an industry wide sustainability metric system.
Safeway made its involvement in the initiative public March 1, reports Supermarket News. Safeway is the first grocer to join the group, according to a press release.
The retailer will use life cycle assessment data to create a company-wide supply chain policy encouraging sustainable purchasing and manufacturing practices throughout the organization’s direct and indirect buying.
Published June 25th, 2009 at 3:18 pm in Carbon Conundrum, Energy Emporium, circa 2020, Great Greenhouse Gas Grab, Talking Trash with 1 comments
Tagged with biomethane, carbon management, Greenhouse Gas, landfill gas, landfills, Linde, liquid natural gas, LNG, methane, solid waste, sustainability, Waste Management
California LNG Plant at Altamont Source: Len Butler, Waste Management
According to joint venture partners, Linde North America and Waste Management, construction on the world’s largest plant to convert landfill gas into clean vehicle fuel is nearing completion. Project details were shared today during a presentation at the National Biomethane Summit in Sacramento, Calif. The joint venture partners are installing systems to purify and liquefy landfill methane gas.
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Published December 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am in Energy Emporium, circa 2020, Great Greenhouse Gas Grab with 1 comments
Tagged with DADS, electricity, Greenhouse Gas, methane, Waste Management, Waste to energy
At DADS, a V-16 electricity generating engine is powered by methane
Not all greenhouse gas is going to waste, some of it is generating electricity. At the gigantic Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site, known to mot natives as DADS, Waste Management Corp. and the city of Denver are now capturing the greenhouse gas, methane – generated from decomposing rubbish — and powering four Read more of this >>
