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Fox News’ Earth Day 2009 story featured an interview with Great Forest recycling expert Amy Marpman and a walk through of Great Forest client Related Companies’ recycling set up.

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A staggering 62 percent of  commercial “trash” discarded by businesses is not trash at all.* What’s in your waste? Are you paying to send more material to the landfill than you need to? Get a waste audit to find out. Largest Global Commercial Waste Study: Learn What 100+ Waste Audits Revealed Waste Audit Facts and

“Just one word… plastics. There’s a great future in plastics.” — The Graduate Those famous lines from the 1967 movie The Graduate were pretty accurate. Today, plastic is everywhere. Their usefulness is undeniable, but the impact of plastic waste on our environment and on every business’s bottom line is becoming too large to ignore. How

  To achieve a zero-waste society, governments, industry and citizens need to work together to implement a rapid transformation in the way products and services are delivered. Industries also need to work on reducing waste within the value chain for their products. Such initiatives can achieve significant financial savings for both businesses and consumers while

TRUE CERTIFIED ZERO WASTE CASE STUDY Project: Great Forest, Inc. Certification Level: Gold Diversion Rate: 91.3% Type of Facility: 5-story Brownstone Facility operations: Office floors In March 2021, Great Forest became TRUE certified to the Gold level for Zero Waste, with a diversion rate of 91.3%. This was verified by the GBCI (Green Business Certification

TRUE CERTIFIED ZERO WASTE CASE STUDY Project: Great Forest, Inc. Certification Level: Gold Diversion Rate: 91.3% Type of Facility: 5-story Brownstone Facility operations: Office floors   In March 2021, Great Forest became TRUE certified to the Gold level for Zero Waste, with a diversion rate of 91.3%. This was verified by the GBCI (Green Business

As we enter a new year and decade, it may be time to ask if your corporate values align with people and the planet. The landscape for doing business is changing and corporate culture is just beginning to catch up. In August 2019, nearly 200 chief executives of the Business Roundtable, representing some of the

Want to Turn Your Campus Into a Zero Waste Leader? Start Here. With rising waste costs and increasing pressure from students, campuses across the country are rethinking their sustainability plans. Here’s the problem: some schools are missing one critical component—waste reduction. If you’re not prioritizing waste, you’re leaving money on the table and missing out

What is Zero Waste? A lack of clarity about what it really means may be keeping some businesses from reaping its benefits. So let’s dispel the myths and misconceptions. Definition of Zero Waste As officially defined by the Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA), Zero Waste is: “The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production,