Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory receives waste reduction award

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been named winner of a 2009 WRAP (Waste Reduction Award Program) award by the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

This is the second year in a row that the Laboratory has received the award, which recognizes California businesses and organizations that have made outstanding efforts to reduce nonhazardous waste by [...]

Cutting costs, one printer at a time

Your printer is wasting more than $300 million a year in taxpayer dollars. Well, yours and a bunch of other ones.

The General Services Administration thinks it can recoup that money — and more — by changing the way the government buys and uses printers, copiers and fax machines.

Scheduled to begin in fiscal 2011, this governmentwide [...]