Jesse Stallone has spent the majority of his career working in the environmental field dealing with operational activities and driving strategic change initiatives. He is the former VP of Business Development and Sustainability for Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI) and President of Online Innovation for ERI’s subsidiary organizations, 1-800-RECYCLING.com, Greenisgood.fm and urbanmining.org.
Most recently, Jesse was director of sustainability and strategic planning at Allied Waste industries, responsible for sustainability and innovation business development initiatives. Prior to this, he served as a Six Sigma Black Belt working on continuous improvement programs dealing with waste reduction for large U.S.-based retailers.
January 27, 2012
By JENNIFER PREYSS Staff Writer Saturday, May 30, 2009 North Carolina is set to make recycling history this fall when it becomes one of the first states to ban the disposal of plastic bottle waste in traditional trash bins. Beginning Oct. 1, rigid plastic containers such as soda and water bottles, milk jugs, and laundry […]
January 27, 2012
By RON SEELY Wisconsin State Journal rseely@madison.com State Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, found plenty of justification for a proposed state electronics waste law just a few blocks from his West Side home two weeks ago. He recounted trying to drop off some old computer parts at a nearby recycling event and getting stuck — in […]
January 25, 2012
Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine.
January 25, 2012
By Leora Broydo Vestel To recycle, or not to recycle? That may no longer be a matter of debate in San Francisco, where a new mandatory recycling and composting law is poised for approval. The ordinance, which will be considered by the city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, would require residential and commercial building owners […]
November 10, 2009
In 1994, Interface founder and Chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can’t be replaced by the earth.
July 29, 2009
Accor North America has joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP).
July 27, 2009
Nike has created a policy to not source leather from cattle raised in the Amazon rainforest (the company says it already does not source from there) and will require that suppliers create leather tracing systems.
July 20, 2009
By switching the lighting on signs in 6,500 of its stores to an LED lighting system from General Electric, AT&T will save nearly 6 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year.
July 17, 2009
With a goal of converting more trash into recycling, volunteers for an MIT research project are attaching electronic tags to items put in the trash in New York City and Seattle.
July 15, 2009
Sara Lee’s sustainability strategy focuses on three key areas — wellness and nutrition, environmental responsibility and social responsibility.