A high priority for the manufacturing sector has been managing hazardous waste and reducing the annual levels created.

Recently helmet-based safety technology company Mips released their 2023 Sustainability Report. The report revealed that Mips reduced emissions per solution by an average of 20.8% compared to 2022. ISHN asked Mips CEO Max Strandwitz some questions for more insight into the report. 

Consumer electronic waste is a serious problem. Americans replace their cell phones every 22 months, leading to over 140 million cell phones in U.S. landfills annually. The components in those phones break down, allowing toxic substances to leach into the surrounding soil and water systems.

OSHA has issued two new educational resources to help protect workers from mercury exposure while crushing and recycling fluorescent bulbs.

Streamlight®, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance flashlights, announced that the company and several of its U.S. distribution partners recycled about 2,100 pounds of rechargeable batteries during the first quarter of 2012.

Lieze Associates, dba Eagle Recycling, of New Jersey, was sentenced recently in federal court in Utica, N.Y., following their guilty plea to conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act and to defrauding the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division announced today.