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Profits Become Elusive In Recycling
2013-11-12 20:10:31| Waste Management - Topix.net
Five years ago, the company recycled around 6 million tons of materials in the U.S. explained CEO David Steiner during a meeting recently at the BSR conference San Francisco.
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In devastated Philippine city, anger grows, aid elusive
2013-11-11 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hung outside a shattered church in the Philippine coastal city of Tacloban, on a road flanked with uncollected corpses and canyons of debris, is a handwritten sign. It read, "We need help!" Relief supplies are pouring into Tacloban three days after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, turned this once-vibrant port city of 220,000 into a corpse-choked wasteland. Tacloban city administrator Tecson Juan Lim says the death toll in this city alone "could go up to 10,000."...
UN says global warming temperature threshold 'ever-more elusive'
2013-11-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche-Welle: A new UN report has warned the chances of limiting an increase in global temperature to two degrees Celcius this century are becoming increasingly slim. The news comes ahead of the body's annual climate talks next week. By 2020, emissions of so-called "carbon dioxide equivalents" will reach around 59 billion tons, The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report presented in Berlin on Tuesday. In order to achieve the two-degree goal, that number should not be more than 44 billion tons by 2020....
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Exclusive: With IPO elusive, Avaya explored sale to Oracle this year - sources
2013-10-05 03:48:11| Telecom - Topix.net
Avaya Inc 's private equity owners explored selling the telecommunications equipment company earlier this year, instead of taking it public, and had talks with Oracle Corp , three people familiar with the matter said this week.
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Hate missing deliveries? UPS has a new iPad app to let you track that elusive brown truck
2013-05-17 03:53:24| Trucking - Topix.net
United Parcel Service, better known as UPS, has finally released an app for the iPad.