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Adriana Trujillo

AT&T, EDF Toolkit Promises 28bn Gallons in Commercial Building Water Savings ... - 0 views

  • cooling towers typically use 28 percent of their daily water for cooling
  • The Building Water Efficiency toolkit is the result of data and lessons from pilot projects that ran across the US during the summer and fall of 2012.
  • For its own operations, AT&T says it identified water savings opportunities of 14 percent to 40 percent per pilot facility and did so in a way that also made business sense.
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  • $100,000 to install but AT&T expects it to produce more than $60,000 in annual water and sewer savings, paying for itself in less than two years.
  • $4,000 equipment upgrade to expand free air cooling will result in about $40,000 in annual savings, the company says.
  • AT&T aims to reduce its approximately 1 billion gallon annual cooling tower water use by 150 million gallons per year by 2015.
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    US commercial buildings can collectively save up to 28 billion gallons of water annually by using a suit of tools produced by AT&T and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the organizations say.
Adriana Trujillo

FWRA - Food Waste Reduction Alliance - News Release - 0 views

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    The Food Waste Reduction Alliance released "Best Practices and Emerging Solutions Toolkit," a guide for companies to reduce food waste. The guide provides advice for overcoming barriers to food donation, new technologies for reducing food waste, and strategic planning to avoid generating waste.
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