Don’t Kill the Mascot
Over the last eight years, I have learned a few things regarding the integration of companies in the environmental industry. Growth by M&A, especially small, family-owned, lifestyle businesses, is often…
TERRA NOVA SOLUTIONS ACQUIRES PINNACLE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
Partnership Will Accelerate Growth, Expand Depth of Services in Southeast ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, December 31, 2020 (PRNewswire) -- Terra Nova Solutions, Inc. (“Terra Nova” or the “Company”) a provider of…
Waste Streams & Environmental Stewardship
Waste is basically anything that is discarded and no longer available for its original use or intent. Your waste can be residential, agricultural, industrial, or manufacturing. Each stream of waste…
COVID-19 Disinfecting Products-Separating Myth from Fact
The longer we battle COVID-19 the more we are learning about it from prevention, disinfectant, and treatment standpoint. From the onset, there has been a lot of confusion over products…
The Different Types of Waste
Many people do not understand the different types of waste designated through the Environmental Protection Agency. Hazardous and Non-Hazardous waste has very specific handling and removal regulations. Solid waste includes…
Recycling Pesky Polyurethane Products
PU’s (polyurethanes) are used in a variety of products and materials. Everything from shoes, insulation, furniture, bedding, sealants, adhesives, vehicles, house materials, and many more products contain it. Over time…
Covid19 Back to Business: Being Ready for Customers
One positive thing that has emerged from our battle with Covid19 is the resurgence of hygiene, hand-washing, sanitizing workplaces, eco resurgence, recycling, waste, and water systems. A strong segment of…
Recycling: From Office to Home
If your company is presently enrolled in an active waste management, or recycling plan you know how to recycle and conserve. Leading companies are recognizing that a strong carbon imprint…
What Is An Environmental Service Management Company?
The Environmental services industry is a diverse and varied market that is growing. According to International Trade Forum magazine: Environmental services, as distinct from the equipment or resources market, account…
What Is a Total Waste Program?
Most businesses have the best of intentions in their efforts to recycle and conserve, but many fail to follow through because there is no specific person empowered to instill a…
Green The New Buzzword
For a few years now some words have become buzzwords for those concerned about the environment, food, nutrition, and those looking to cash in on related issues: GREEN Organic Free…
The Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)
The RCRA is the benchmark Federal Law governing the disposal of solid and hazardous waste. It was signed into law in 1976 and has been amended several times. It replaced…
Sustainable-Waste Management Plan
Terms like sustainability and Total Waste Management/Environmental Management Plan are becoming more common among small business and industry. While the big, Fortune 500 companies have been engaging in sustaining practices…
ISO 14001 Certification Will Make Your Business Greener (In More Ways Than One)
What is it, exactly? In strict terms, ISO 14001 is the international standard by which the specified requirements for an effective environmental management system (EMS) are measured. Ok, so… what’s…
Plastic Bag Bans
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, “Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year! It takes 12M barrels of oil to produce them. Plastic bags kill 100,000 Marine animals…
Waste Recycling for Your Company
Waste recycling is the process of collecting materials from waste streams that would normally end up in a landfill and processing materials to create new products, or finding ways to…
More Cities Adopt Zero Waste Legislation
Virtually every company today strives to be more environmentally responsible and sustainable. It’s no longer just a pie-in-the-sky add-on feature, something that sounds and looks good to investors and the…
Hazardous Waste Regulations
If you’re a business owner, your top priority is to make a profit. You do that by making quality products and then finding and retaining customers. You focus on getting…
Hazardous Waste Generators
What comes to mind when you think of hazardous waste generators? You’re probably picturing evil corporations dumping enormous, disintegrating, cylindrical drums filled with oozing green goo thrown haphazardly (pun intended)…
Would you load these containers on YOUR truck ?
“… and there are several drums around back that we want you to pick up as well.” “What’s in them?” “I’m not sure. The drums have been re-purposed and they’re…
Sustainability Planning
Though the subject likely hasn’t crossed your mind (or if it did, it was a briefly whimsical medley of random thoughts during your R.E.M. cycle), Sustainability planning is becoming a…
5 Important Reminders Concerning Hazardous Waste Disposal
Today’s business world is changing at a rate unimagined even a generation ago. Business leaders are adapting to new marketing channels—via the web and social media. New technologies are changing…
It’s not just a business… it’s personal!
Mike Watts is the founder and owner of an incredible company that is making a tremendously positive impact on the environment throughout its extensive range of operations. Mike began his…