Video: Does Your Business Recycle?

An interview with Bill Kralovenski, Operations Supervisor, at the Windsor Recycling Centre in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He discusses the percentage of businesses that recycle in Windsor, as well as tips on how to get businesses to recycle.

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Video: Profitable Recycling for Business

This online training course provides business managers with the essential information needed to improve management of their company's recyclable materials. For the first time, business executives can learn the information necessary to go green. This course provides the step by step process necessary to improve recycling, reduce costs and even make money from everyday recyclable materials. This training is critical for every business manager. The high quality e-learning course can be found at www.bottomlinerecycling.com

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GreenBlue's Packaging Design Guidelines Close the Loop on Recycling

A lack of coordination between packaging design and packaging recovery is a major obstacle in creating closed loop recycling systems for materials. To address this issue, the non-profit organization GreenBlue has released a suite of reports that provide technical guidance on designing packaging to be compatible with common recovery methods. GreenBlue initiated this project to provide similar guidance for all packaging material types.

The 3 Stages of a Recycling Loop

A recycling loop includes the design, manufacturing and marketing of products. A fragmented recycling system only moves trash around, a recycling loop collects recyclables, transforms them into useful products and distributes them in the marketplace. The symbol of recycling represents the three stages of collection, processing and market development.

How to Start a School Recycling Program

According to Treehugger, on average, schools throw out 38 tons of paper each year, which equals 644 trees. However, each ton of paper recycled saves 17 trees. Schools represent an important opportunity for increased recovery of high quality paper much needed to make new products. Here are 10 steps from Earth 911, for the development of a school recycling program.