How a Future Ready Recycling Station can Improve Your Waste Management

In this day and age, the public awareness of our need to recycle and manage waste is higher than ever. If you are in the middle of designing a renovation project for your corporate workplace or a public facing business, like a coffee shop, where waste needs to be dealt with constantly, you will need to have a good solution for recycling stations ready. 

Here are 7 facts about waste that will make you want to recycle:

• By only the age of 6 months, the average Canadian will have used the same amount of resources as an average person in the developing world uses in a lifetime.
• Landfills account for around thirty-eight percent of Canada’s total methane emissions.
• Each year five billion drink boxes are thrown away in North America
• North America consumes around one third of the world’s resources but produces over half of its waste – even though it accounts for only eight percent of the world’s population
• Approximately seventy percent of waste in landfills could have been reused or recycled
• It takes only one liter of oil to pollute a million liters of ground water
• Around twenty percent of our plastic, glass, paper and metal goods are made from recycled material – and experts assert that we could reach fifty percent easily

It is simply true that if you build it, they will come. The best objective is to create easy to use recycling stations that will encourage people to sort and deposit waste in a recycle friendly manner. What could be easier than a unit that has labeled slots for each kind of waste? Part of the work of sorting is already done at the source. The options for the design and look of these recycling stations is almost endless, and they no longer have to be those ugly blue plastic boxes of the eighties. For example, Waste Wise offers some interesting options in our Future Ready line, with easy to adjust compartments and streams that will fit your needs.

Waste Wise offers many choices that allow you to customize the look & color of your recycling station and can suggest how best to make your recycling stations fit the look of your interior design seamlessly. Why settle for simple trash cans that you know will not fulfill your environmental goals? Contact Waste Wise Products Inc. today to discuss options that will work for you and your business!