SANDSTON, VA.—Organic waste recycling has become a major topic in recent months with many states implementing organic waste mandates for businesses. Reducing a hotel’s food waste can promote a brand’s environmentally-friendly status as well as generate purchasing savings and reduce hauling costs.Glasdon, a leading supplier of recycling bins and trash cans, presents their best-selling food waste recycling bin, the Nexus Shuttle. Ideal for kitchens and food preparation areas, the Nexus Shuttle has proved popular amongst restaurants and hotels and is ideal for collecting organic waste scraps and unwanted food.The unit offers a small footprint to ensure that it takes...

ODESSA, FLA.—Hasek Communications, the Odessa, Fla.-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes PragmaTech Ltd. as a Founding Sponsor. Thanks to the power of the “Internet of Things”, PragmaTech has developed tools to combine its expertise in solid waste equipment with an advanced ERP/CRM platform called Pandora Intelligent Networks. Customers experience significantly improved waste management, recycling, and sustainability achievements; and improved asset management results from PragmaTech’s ability to collect and analyze data generated from waste equipment.  PragmaTech’s fullness monitoring capabilities typically result in 30 percent to 50 percent savings off one’s total waste haulage bill. The data collected allows PragmaTech...

ODESSA, FLA.—Hasek Communications, the Odessa, Fla.-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes Glasdon, Inc. as a Green Product & Service Directory partner. Glasdon has significant experience providing tailored and effective waste management solutions to a number of organizations both large and small. From reception spaces to guestrooms to dining areas, Glasdon’s range of capacities, styles and colors can accommodate any lodging environment. Glasdon can personalize bins. The company also supplies coordinating trash containers and ash receptacles. Call (855) 874-5273, e-mail info@glasdon.com, or live chat at www.glasdon.com.

ODESSA, FLA.—Hasek Communications, the Odessa, Fla.-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes RieNu by Riegel as a Founding Sponsor. RieNu by Riegel is the first to market recycled table linen product. Made from recycled water bottles—the process includes collection, sanitizing, melting and extruding that molten material into yarn which is then woven and dyed to make RieNu.Riegel is one of six divisions under the Mount Vernon Mills, Inc. umbrella. Riegel is the division and brand name that services the hospitality industry. Riegel has earned the brand standard for every major North American hotel chain in the table linen category...

GLENS FALLS, N.Y.—1 Hotels, FOUND:RE Phoenix, HGU New York and Shore Hotel have all chosen to carry JUST water in their relentless efforts to further reduce their carbon footprints. JUST water—100 percent ethically sourced spring water—is packaged in a paper bottle made up of 82 percent renewable resources by using FSC-certified paper and plant-based plastic derived from sugarcane. This use of renewable materials results in up to 74 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional PET plastic bottles. “Choices in travel and accommodations should support seamless extensions of conscious living, while also providing quality hospitality experiences,” said JUST CEO Grace...

BOULDER, COLO.—Eco-Products announced that it has become a Certified B Corp, earning the coveted distinction for meeting “the highest standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability.”Eco-Products, a leading brand of food service packaging made with renewable resources and recycled content, joins a growing community of B Corp companies working to solve environmental and social problems. These companies are not competing just to be the best in the world, but to be the best for the world.“We’re excited and proud to announce our certification as a B Corporation because it represents everything we stand for as...

HASTINGS ON HUDSON, N.Y.—In2green, a leader in luxury sustainable home goods and accessories, received top recognition in the home and gift industry winning the coveted Icon Honor for Innovation. Hailed as the most anticipated and important night in the home and gift industry, Icon Honors took place Thursday, July 14 and was produced by AmericasMart Atlanta, in exclusive partnership with the Gift & Home Trade Assn. (GHTA) and Progressive Business Media and in affiliation with Gift For Life.In2green was recognized for its recycled polyester knit fabric, which is used to create its indoor/outdoor line. Launched at the end of...

NEW YORK—Save A Sample!’s annual industry recycling drive is coming to Canada. Save A Sample!, a nonprofit recycling drive, makes it easy for designers to donate materials and samples to local design students. Save A Sample! takes place each year throughout the United States, saving tons of materials from the landfill. This year Save A Sample! expands its sustainable mission to Canada.“We’re going global,” says Suzanne Swift, Save A Sample!’s Founder and President of SpecSimple.com. SpecSimple.com is the industry’s first web portal for design industry information and the home of Virtual Library, a Best of NeoCon GOLD award winner....

LAS VEGAS—Caesars Entertainment Corp., with the help of Ecova, is digging deep into its own trash to uncover opportunities to improve its waste diversion rate. That diversion rate currently stands at 44 percent, up from 23 percent in 2013. The company’s 2020 goal is a 50 percent diversion rate. Key to Caesars’ success so far is its commitment to consistently measure its waste stream and conduct a “dumpster dive” every now and then to uncover opportunities for continuous improvement.When Jeff Ruskowitz, Caesars’ Manager of Engineering and Sustainable Operations, joined the company in 2013, he found that Caesars had not...

SANDSTON, VA.—Following the success of their existing C-Thru range, Glasdon—a leading supplier of recycling bins and trash cans—have launched the C-Thru Battery Recycling Bins, designed especially for the collection of unwanted batteries.Batteries are ubiquitous in our everyday lives and are often overlooked in our recycling efforts. But batteries commonly contain heavy and corrosive chemicals that have the potential to pollute the environment if they are not disposed of correctly.By offering a battery recycling bin, you are encouraging users to properly and safely dispose of their used batteries. The transparent, yet strong, body of the C-Thru Battery Recycling Bins means...