Webinar - How to Celebrate America Recycles Day at Work

This webinar will take place on Wednesday, October 22, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET. The final America Recycles Day 2014 webinar, features special guest Chad Obenauf, the Chairperson of Kellogg Company's Go Green team!

There is no better time to tackle recycling in your office than on America Recycles Day.

This webinar will address ways of celebrating America Recycles Day in your workplace. Obenauf, will explore his multi-faceted plans for an engaging, educational, and rewarding America Recycles Day at Kellog.

Webinar - Promoting Recycling Behavior: What Works

Recycling @Work Pledge Partners,is holding a webinar titled "Promoting Recycling Behavior: What Works." It will take place on August 20, 2014 from 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST. The effectiveness of any recycling program hinges on understanding human behavior, and in many cases, asking individuals to change their behaviors.

This webinar will summarize the findings from behavioral science with regard to effective strategies for encouraging people to recycle, including recommendations for program design and marketing. The webinar will also share results from a survey conducted in partnership with The George Washington University regarding participants' feedback on bin shape, color and signage.

10 Ways to Upcycle Plastic Easter Eggs

Now that Easter is over many are wondering what they can do with those plastic eggs. Instead of downcycling, upcycle those eggs by turning them into something you can use over and over again.

Aside from not buying them in the first place there are a number of ways that they can be upcycled so that they do not end up in landfills where they will take decades to break down. In the process they will leave a toxic residue that is harmful to the soil and water.

Webinar: PET Thermoform Recycling - A Progress Report

Webinar: PET Thermoform Recycling - A Progress Report, will take place on April 22, 2014, 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm. This webinar will provide an overview of PET Thermoform recycling, from early research and development efforts; the state of the market today; and a reclaimer's experience in recycling PET thermoforms with PET bottles. Speakers: Resa Dimino, Director of Public Policy, NAPCOR and Ryan L'Abbe, Vice President & General Manager, Ice River Springs - Blue Mountain Plastics Division.

Event - PA Recycling Market Development Summit: Spotlight on Organics

Recycling Market Development will take place on February 20, 2014 between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn Philadelphia Center City, 1100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA. Markets development programming from organics industry experts blended with peer networking. The Keynote Address will be delivered by Shawn M. Garvin, U.S. EPA Regional Administrator.

Five Webinars - RecycleMania 2014

Here are five webinars for RecycleMania 2014.  The RecycleMania Tournament is a competition designed to help schools to recycle and minimize waste. The competition enables participants to track their trash and recycling collections over an 8 week period in the spring of 2014.

Tournament Overview - November 21, 2013 at 3:00 EST

This high level presentation will review 1) how schools participate in RecycleMania and 2) resources and special promotions for the 2014 program. Join us for the full webinar if you're interested in RecycleMania and want to know what is involved, or jump on at 3:30 if you’re a returning coordinator just looking for an update on the coming year. This program will only address rules and promotional strategies in general terms.

Video - Recycling: Let Garbage Live Again

In recognition of America Recycles Day here is a video sponsored by Keep America Beautiful and the Ad Council. It aims to generate awareness, explain how and where to recycle, mobilize individual ownership and emotional connection to recycling through community building, and transform recycling into a daily social norm. The campaign shows consumers that their recyclable materials want to be something more, and promotes recycling as a way to give garbage another life.

Simple Recycling Tips for Offices and Workplaces

Almost everything we use in our offices can be recycled, including printed paper, used ink cartridges, empty cartons and old computers and printers. Here are 5 simple tips from the Green Business Bureau to help your business to recycle:

1. Find a recycling center near you (click here)

2. Place clearly labeled recycling bins around the office. Provide separate bins for plastic, metal, glass and paper if your recycling system is not single-stream.

3. Place bins strategically. Easily accessible recycling bins are more likely to be used. Place a paper-recycling bin near the printer and aluminum/plastic/glass recycling bin in kitchen and break room.

Businesses Innovative and Diverse Recycling Efforts

There are a number of recycling campaigns in companies across the US and around the world. Some of the campaigns represent traditional tried and true approaches, others are far more novel. For years now Target has been supporting recycling throughout their 1,740 US stores. Their recycling stations accept aluminum, glass and plastic beverage containers, plastic bags, MP3 players, cell phones and ink cartridges.

In October, Johnson & Johnson launched a unique bathroom recycling initiative called CARE TO RECYCLE™.  Many Americans are not even aware that bathroom products can be recycled. As revealed by a Shelton Group poll, recycling in the bathroom is uncommon with less than half (40 percent) of Americans indicating that they recycle bathroom items.While 7 out of 10 Americans say they always or almost always recycle, only 1 in 5 Americans consistently recycle in the bathroom. This can have a major impact on the environment: Each year, Americans throw away enough 15-oz. shampoo bottles to fill 1,164 football fields—that’s 18,000 tons of plastic ending up in landfills. To help increase the recycling of bathroom products, Johnson partnered with several organizations, including Recyclebank, Keep America Beautiful, Earth 911 and Net Impact. 

The Value of Workplace Recycling is About More than just Money

In addition to monetary considerations associated with recycling the business community has a critical role to play helping disseminating the practice with other businesses and consumers. Recycling not only reduces environmental footprints, experienced organizations can also share their expertise and encourage others to follow their lead.

Companies are coming to terms with growing resource scarcity and recycling is an essential part of sustainability strategies. A growing number of environmentally conscious consumers are demanding that companies not only engage in more ecologically responsible practices but they want them to share their values with consumers. Recycling in the workplace can save energy, reduce emissions and minimize contributions to landfills, as well as conserve natural resources and generate jobs.

RecycleMania Tournament 2014: Student Recycling and Waste Reduction Competition

The RecycleMania Tournament is a competition designed to help schools to recycle and minimize waste. The 2014 RecycleMania competition enables participants to track their trash and recycling collections over an 8 week period in the spring of 2014. The accomplishments of schools and colleges will be compared as they compete in various categories. These competition includes awards in a number of categories including waste per capita, the best recycling rates and least amount of waste and recycling produced overall.

Businesses Take the Recycling at Work Pledge!

A growing number of businesses are already recycling. Not only does this have a tangible environmental benefit, it also helps to promote your brand. America Recycles Day makes it easy to recycle. Simply follow the Recycling at Work 10-Step Action Plan to building a successful employee-driven recycling program (see list of complimentary tools and resources at the bottom of the page).

When your business or organization takes the Recycling at Work pledge, you earn immediate recognition as a Pledge Partner and can begin accessing a range of benefits to help you increase recycling in the workplace. Take the pledge today and join the other businesses, government agencies, hospitals, schools and institutions in the national effort to increase Recycling at Work.

America Recycles Day

Friday November 15 is America Recycles Day (ARD), an annual event created by Keep America Beautiful (KAB). Recycling is one of the easiest things we can do to reduce our environmental impacts. Through ARD, KAB increases awareness and encourages people to pledge to recycle. This is more than a consciousness raising exercise through consorted national action this event makes a meaningful difference. In addition to pledges, more than 2 million people participated in events across the country in 2012. Through these activities a total of 3.7 million pounds of recyclables were collected which is equivalent to eliminating the emissions of 280 cars. The day of action is meant as a springboard that incorporates recycling into out daily lives.

Free Electronics Recycling and Paper Shredding in New Jersey

Electronics Recycling & Shredding Day will take place on Sunday, November 17, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM @ Katz JCCKatz JCC 1301 Springdale Road Cherry Hill NJ. This is a great opportunity for local residents to responsibly recycle obsolete electronics and shred old documents and papers. They will accept all electronic devices with a plug.

Please Note: NO SMOKE DETECTORS, LARGE APPLIANCES, CRTS OR TV'S will be accepted

This service is free to all Cherry Hill residents and small businesses with less than 50 employees.

For more information click here.

Event - SMi Energy from Waste Conference

The 6th annual SMi Energy from Waste Conference will take place on September 25 - 26, 2013. This event provides attendees with a complete view of the field! It will focus on policy and market updates, project deliverability, finance and investment, technological developments and the renewable heat incentive this informative event will bring together key leaders in the field to provide attendees with an in-depth look into current status of Energy from Waste.

Sweden is a Model of Sustainable Waste Management

Sweden has a garbage problem, but unlike the US and many other places in the world, Sweden's problem is not that there is too much trash, it is that there is too little. Thanks to Sweden's highly efficient recycling habits only four percent of the nations waste ends up in landfills.

This is in stark contrast to nations like the US where half of all waste ends up in landfills according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Americans recycled just 34 percent of their waste in 2010, and a total of 136 million tons of garbage ended up in landfills. Americans throw away nearly half of their food, costing roughly $165 billion per year, according to a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council.