How Reusable Recycling Bags Improve Recycling Rates
Recycling isn’t always easy, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Find out how reusable recycling bags resolve the most common reasons people don’t recycle.
Transfer Station Thrift Store Aims to Reduce Trash
How One Community Is Making a Difference Not all trash is, well, trash. Sometimes people have items they no longer want or need that still have a lot of use left to them. Sending these items to a landfill is wasteful and it also fills up a landfill prematurely. A recent article published by Waste […]
Increase Multi-Family Recycling Rates with This Proven WFH Hack!
Reusable Recycling Bags Are an Easy Solution to a Complex Problem Working from home, at least in some capacity, appears to be a change brought about by COVID-19 that is here to stay. So many changes have resulted from people making the shift from working in offices to working from home (WFH). And one of […]
Barbie, Matchbox & Mega Get Recycled with Mattel PlayBack!
Popular Toymaker Launches Plan to Keep Materials In-Play Going green matters and a recent trend in the toy industry stands to make a major impact on how past-their-prime toys are handled. Several leading brands have launched plans to repurpose or recycle toys, so these items can continue to bring joy and not take up space […]
Help Work From Home (WFH) Employees Go Green with Branded Reusable Recycling Bags
A Simple Solution That Delivers Results Working from Home (WFH) appears to be here to stay. While lots of employees like the flexibility WFM provides, it’s also an opportunity to go green. Eliminating, or drastically reducing time spent commuting reduces vehicle emissions and makes a difference, but there’s so much more you and your team […]
Here’s a Great GO GREEN Idea for Your School…At A DEEP Discount!
Create Excitement and Make a Difference More schools are looking for ways to go green and for good reason. Schools can generate a lot of trash. Increased efforts to swap out disposable items for reusable alternatives and to recycle the items that are used are gaining traction. These steps can dramatically help improve the waste […]
Reduce Waste and Lower Your School’s Environmental Footprint
#GoReusableNow and Show Your School Spirit The name is different, but the mission is staying the same. RecycleMania is now known as Campus Race to Zero Waste. This organization strives to help colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada find effective solutions in order to reach the goal of going zero waste. This is […]
MassDEP Sustainable Materials Recovery Program (SMRP) Takes Off
Bay State Going Green and Streamlining Waste Stream Significant changes that will have a severe impact on the waste stream are coming to Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) Sustainable Materials Recovery Program (SMRP) recently awarded $3.2 million. The MassDEP SMRP grant money aims to minimize trash carted off to landfills, increase recycling, […]
Dayton to Impose Two-Strike Recycling Rule…Is There Another Option?
Dayton’s Two-Strike Recycling Rule Works to Decrease Wishcycling. Could Simplifying Recycling Work Instead? Recycling seems easy enough, but that is just not always the case. Sometimes it’s very easy to identify if an item can be recycled, but other times it can be hard to make the call. Trying to recycle non-recyclable items has a […]
The Top Multi-Family Marketing Tool That’s Eco-Friendly Too
How to Help Tenants and the Planet Multi-family dwellings, like apartments, condos, and townhomes typically have very low recycling rates. The inability to recycle means residents toss recyclable items in the trash because that is their only option. This places a burden on the local waste stream, contributes to landfills reaching capacity much quicker, and […]
Masks, Gloves & Other PPE Make a Mess for Mother Earth
Stay Safe While Protecting Others and the Planet Efforts to flatten the curve and slow the spread of COVID-19 have led to an increase in the use of protective face masks and gloves. The use of such protective gear increased when the Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued advice to wear face masks in […]
3 Reasons You Should Kick Wishcycling to the Curb TODAY!
Why It Pays to Read the Labels When Recycling Wishcycling is the act of tossing an item in a recycling bin when you’re really not sure if it can be recycled. This seems harmless enough, but it can actually have some pretty serious consequences if you guess wrong. This behavior is incredibly normal and wishcycling […]
What Is Wishcycling?
Ditch Wishcycling to Improve Recycling Efforts Recycling is a great way to streamline the waste stream and make the most of the existing materials while conserving resources. However, the process of recycling is only effective when materials that can, in fact, be recycled are tossed into the proper bin. When items that cannot be recycled […]
Are Plastic Lobbyists Winning the Fight Against Plastic Bag Bans?
How Far Is the Bag Ban Movement Likely to Reach? To date, eight states have been banned single-use plastic bags. This is an amazing accomplishment! Banning single-use plastic bags takes a lot of work, primarily because there is a lot of resistance. The plastic manufacturing industry works hard to prevent bans from happening, and there […]
China to Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags
Efforts Intended to Take on Massive Environmental Problem The Chinese government is taking steps to ban single-use plastic bags in response to the huge environmental impact of single-use plastics. This is exciting news because if a country as large as China can eliminate single-use plastic bags this action will have a global impact and hopefully […]
Reusable Recycling Bags Work to Support Recycling Legislation
Outreach Helps People Understand How to Recycle Earlier, we wrote about proposed legislation that could tremendously help the recycling industry. The inspiration for these posts came from our friends at SWANA. Essentially, both pieces of legislation would provide financial resources to state and local governments with the intent to improve outreach around recycling. We are […]
Recycling Legislation Introduced in Congress Supports Educational Outreach
Big Changes Potentially Coming to the Recycling Industry Recently introduced legislation could make a huge difference in recycling rates throughout the U.S. Two pieces of legislation are calling for increased funding and outreach to improve and expand recycling efforts. If passed, these laws could have a major impact on the waste management industry and the […]
Bags for Recycling Help Educate Tenants and Increase Recycling Rates
Learn the Secret Hack to Simplify Recycling Recycling is advantageous because it keeps materials with plenty of life and function left in them out of landfills. As landfills are filling up and reaching capacity, recycling is a viable solution. However, recycling isn’t always easy; particularly for people living in apartments and multi-family dwellings. Bags for […]
How to Make Recycling in Apartments Easy
An Easy Solution to a Tricky Problem Recycling and apartment living typically do not go together. For a variety of reasons, recycling in apartments is hard, which means recycling programs are not widely adopted if a program is even implemented. The problem with apartments and recycling is about to disappear thanks to our reusable recycling […]
Here’s The Best Way to Recycle in Your Apartment!
An EASY to Implement Recycling Program Begins with The Bag… Recycling is simply repurposing existing materials that have fulfilled their purpose into new and useful items. Recycling conserves energy and resources, but it isn’t always easy to recycle. People who live in apartments know this to be true, but that’s about to change. Here is […]