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Office Recycling Guide – 9 Tips for Business Recycling

Green Business Bureau

Formalizing your office recycling program is often a great step forward in creating a more sustainable business and company. An official recycling policy can guide employees and demonstrate a sense of commitment toward sustainability in your business. Writing and distributing an office recycling policy document is highly recommended.

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Green Business Initiative of the Week: Hazardous Waste Recycling

Green Business Bureau

Hazardous Waste Recycling: The proper disposal of batteries, paint and chemicals, lightbulbs, and electronics. Recycling is one of the top and most cost-effective ways to reduce waste in the workplace. Challenging Business Recycling Initiatives. The most common recycling items in the workplace are paper, plastic and metal cans.

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Hazardous Waste Recycling: Sustainability Initiative Highlights

Green Business Bureau

Hazardous Waste Recycling: The proper disposal of batteries, paint and chemicals, lightbulbs, and electronics. Recycling is one of the top and most cost-effective ways to reduce waste in the workplace. Challenging Business Recycling Initiatives. The most common recycling items in the workplace are paper, plastic and metal cans.

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The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute

Grist

Read Next Petrochemical companies have known for 40 years that plastics recycling wouldn’t work Joseph Winters That plastic production should be correlated with plastic pollution is intuitive, but until now there has been little quantitative research to prove it — especially on a company-by-company basis.

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Hotel Sustainability & Waste Management: Reducing Food, Water and Plastic Waste

Green Business Bureau

Food waste reduction programs can be organized into four steps: Conduct A Food Waste Audit. Create a food waste log to keep track of where your food waste comes from, how much and at what frequency. Whenever possible, reduce ordering plastic products, especially those that are single-use and cannot be recycled.

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Green Business Certification Guide: How To Maximize The Value Of The GBB Online Sustainability Platform

Green Business Bureau

Implementing the Green Business Bureau Certification is a process that allows organizations to move at one’s individual pace towards the Gold and Platinum level. Make logging into the GBB EcoPlanner a task that is done at least once a month. To find some ideas, simply log into the GBB EcoPlanner dashboard.

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How to Declutter Your Life and Lower Stress Levels

The Environmental Blog

Sort your items into five boxes: keep, donate, maybe, recycle and trash. Recycle: The recycle box includes regular recycling and items that need to be recycled in a specific way, such as batteries, unwanted electronics and prescription eyeglasses. Most grocery stores offer recycling for clean plastic bags!

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