DeepStream Designs Custom Trash & Recycling Receptacles DeepStream Designs’ custom trash and recycling receptacles coordinate with your property’s décor with panels made from wood, recycled plastic lumber, decorative resin, metals, stone, and laminates, framed by marine-anodized aluminum legs. Our receptacles, modular garden planters, and custom fixtures are engineered and constructed to endure for generations, reducing the impact on the Earth’s resources, and providing the lowest cost of ownership over time. Made in USA by American craftsmen. Please call (305) 857-0466. DeepStream Designs » Email for Details »     T2 Site Amenities Recycling Can Be Beautiful! Elevate and enhance your property's aesthetic with our custom trash and recycling...

Sleep On Latex America’s Best Source for Latex Mattress Products At Sleep on Latex, we are passionate about the products that we sell. Our natural latex mattress products are healthy, environmentally friendly and comfortable. We provide the highest quality natural latex mattresses, mattress toppers and pillows at prices which are unmatched by any competitor. Call (312) 380-1960 for a quote or for more information. Our sales people are friendly, knowledgeable and always happy to help out. Our warehouse is located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago. Sleep On Latex » Email for Details »

The Mustard Seed of Central Florida In Support of Our Furniture & Clothing Bank Since 2011, The Mustard Seed Recycle program has deconstructed more than 120,000 mattresses, saving more than 720,000 cubic yards of landfill space, reducing dump expenses and protecting our environment. This recycling produced bales of toppers, foam, shredable metal and mulched wood generating income to fund the furniture and clothing program. The Mustard Seed is the only furniture and clothing bank in Central Florida. Call (407) 875-2040, ext. 113 to get a quote for recycling your mattresses and box springs. The Mustard Seed of Central Florida » Email for Details...

ORLANDO, FLA.—Clean the World, the nonprofit based here that launched eight years ago, is continuing to grow with widespread support from the global hospitality industry and its suppliers. Clean the World’s mission is two-fold. First, it is to collect and recycle soap and hygiene products discarded every day by the hospitality industry. Second, through the distribution of these and other donated products to impoverished people, the mission is to prevent millions of hygiene-related deaths each year, reduce the morbidity rate for hygiene-related illnesses, and encourage vigorous childhood development. According to Shawn Seipler, Founder and CEO of Clean the World, there...

NEW ORLEANS—Centerplate, the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s exclusive food and beverage provider, hosted a “Zero Waste Lunch” at the 2017 WasteExpo convention on May 10. Chef Brandon Felder, Executive Chef, and his team served industry attendees a menu of Beet Salad, Abita Amber BBQ Shrimp, and Bananas Foster Bread Pudding, made with parts of food that would otherwise be discarded. The lunch was created in partnership with the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Centerplate, GES, Salvage Supperclub, The Green Project and The Composting Network. The event took place inside a rented dumpster equipped with salvaged...

SAN DIEGO—San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer joined the staff of the San Diego Convention Center at a public celebration last month to publicly celebrate the venue’s certification as a LEED Gold facility. Mayor Faulconer praised the venue’s efforts in achieving the standards set by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the foremost program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. LEED-certified buildings are resource efficient. They use less water and energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “San Diego is one...

T2 Site Amenities Site Furnishing Collections T2 Site Amenities supplies coordinating collections of towel valets, planters, receptacles, and benches for your lobby, public spaces, meeting rooms and pool areas. Our most popular line of Towel Valets are constructed from recycled plastic to ensure durability without the worry of corrosion, rust, splintering, fading, or rot. Achieve a cohesive design by coordinating our other products, including trash/recycling bins, storage boxes, portable bars, planters, benches and more. For more information, complete this form and our customer service manager will be in contact with you shortly. For more information, call (847) 579-9003. T2 Site Amenities » Email...

NATIONAL REPORT—Extending the life of a hotel asset typically results in both cost and environmental savings. Perhaps in no other instance is that more true than with furniture. Refinishing, reupholstering or repurposing furniture keeps it out of the landfill and extends the return on the original investment. “It is a huge savings environmentally,” says Bob Stephens, owner of Northern Lights Restoration, Spencer, N.Y., adding that cost savings can range from 70 percent to 95 percent compared to the cost of replacement. On its website, The Refinishing Touch, Alpharetta, Ga., cites a project in Charleston, S.C. where the property spent...

LAS VEGAS—HD Expo 2017 wrapped up in Las Vegas on May 5 after attracting more than 800 exhibitors and more than 10,000 attendees. The reconfigured show floor allowed for 275,000 square feet of show floor space. The annual event was an opportunity for suppliers to display their latest innovations and that they did. Many of the new products and technologies on hand have a green story behind them—whether having to do with the material they are made of or the energy or water they conserve. It would be impossible in this space to include all of the green news...

SEATTLE—The Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) announced that it has been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance. LEED is the nation’s preeminent program for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings; certification is established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USBGC) and verified by the Green Building Institute. LEED certification takes into account the use of energy, lighting, water, and materials, as well as the incorporation of a variety of other sustainable strategies, and is awarded based on the square footage of space divided by the kilowatt-hours of...