Dumpster Diving: From Garbage to Gold

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Businesses are cutting waste and finding new revenue streams by diving into their dumpsters for items that were once hauled away to landfills. Judith Nemes pulls on the rubber gloves to investigate

One company's garbage is another's gold. That's what Burt's Bees discovered when workers there donned hazmat suits and jumped into their trash to have a look at what they were throwing away. Employees...

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