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Recycling: A Good Business Decision

Recycling: A Good Business Decision

When you hear about the benefits of recycling you hear about climate change and the rainforest and the landfills and so on. That's great but you have a company to run and you ask yourself, "How does this affect my bottom line?" That's a fair question and it turns out that recycling containers are a smart investment.

Tips For Starting A Composting Program At Work

Older folks out there may remember when recycling was something done only by a few left-wing wackos. Today everybody, even people in the red states, has a recycle bin in the garage.

The Profitability Of Recycling

The Profitability Of Recycling

Obviously we are big fans of recycling, but we also understand when our customers ask us, "OK, but how much does it cost?" They are often surprised when we tell them that recycling containers are an investment that will pay for themselves fairly quickly. Recycling ROI Trash is an expense.

Easy Ways to Begin Recycling Containers

Easy Ways to Begin Recycling Containers

Recycling is some of the greatest habits mankind can have. For those businesses, commercial offices or schools that suffer from poor recycling rates, custodial headaches & lack of participation, you don't need a superhero to help.

How To Compost At Work

How To Compost At Work

In the last forty years recycling has gone from a hippie fringe activity to mainstream waste disposal. Now that the recycle bin is nearly as common as the trash can, organizations are moving into a new ecological initiative: composting.

Uses For Recycled Plastic

Uses For Recycled Plastic

What happens to that water bottle you just threw in the recycling container? You might assume it gets made into another plastic bottle but actually there are any number of possibilities including plastic benches, drainage pipes and signs. So how is recycled plastic used? Packaging The plastic bottle has become the symbol of recycling, much as the aluminum can was twenty years ago.

How to make sure the items in your recycling bins don’t end up in the trash

How to make sure the items in your recycling bins don’t end up in the trash

Maybe you’re an avid recycler, or maybe you’re trying to become one. But no matter how diligent you are about separating the recyclables from the trash, did you know that a significant portion of recycled material is actually sent to the landfill? That’s because a lot of people fail to follow two basic guidelines when it comes to recycling: ensuring that their recyclables are: 1) clean and 2) actually recyclable.

Motivate Kids to Use Recycling Bins

Motivate Kids to Use Recycling Bins

If you have recently invested in a recycling bin, you may be facing the question of how to entice kids and other family members to remember to recycle, rather than throwing everything in the garbage.  Thankfully, recycling is easy and many kids will be more than willing to pitch in to help the environment.

Battery Recycle Containers: Which Batteries to Consider and How They’re Recycled

Battery Recycle Containers: Which Batteries to Consider and How They’re Recycled

Recycle containers for batteries has become a popular way to recycle in many U.S.

Recycling Containers: It’s Not Just for the Little Stuff

Recycling Containers: It’s Not Just for the Little Stuff

Most of us have heard about recycling. We're encouraged to use recycling containers to gather plastic bottles, glass jars, and aluminum cans as well cardboard boxes and newspapers.