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General Electric Brings Another Bright Idea

Posted Dec 8th 2010 3:40PM by Gary Sattler (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and Services, Industry, General Electric (GE), Next Big Thing

General Electric Company (GE) is promoting a new standard in LED lighting for consumer use. Although the new LED technology from GE may be expensive for now, the company could be, once more, changing how the world looks at light bulbs.

According to GE, this new LED technology produces a quality of light similar to that of the old incandescent light bulbs, but which is so efficient it has been awarded Energy Star designation. No other similar LED light bulb has yet accomplished that. Better yet, the new GE LED bulbs contain none of the harmful lead which makes today's compact florescent light bulbs rather undesirable.

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Waste Management Knows Something Can Be Made out of Almost Anything

Posted Feb 1st 2010 9:50AM by Joseph Lazzaro (RSS feed)
Filed under: Stocks to Buy, Waste Management Inc. (WMI)

Waste Management (WM) remains well-positioned to profit from the long-term, secular recycling and no-waste trends, and that's the main reason I'm reiterating my buy rating for the company's shares, first recommended on March 25, 2009, at a price of $25.74.

The recession hurt WM's results in 2009, as the commercial impact of reduced industrial output rippled throughout the U.S. economy. But that's just a temporary, cycling downturn. The long-term trend looks very good for WM, and here's why: 20 million customers, 267 owned/operated landfills, 16 waste-to-energy plants, 105 recycling plants, and more than 100 beneficial-use landfill gas projects.

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