My work wastes a ton of paper!!?
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Call a local recycling place. Maybe they would be willing to put a recycling bin at your work site. Find out all the information, what it would cost (if anything) and then propose the idea to your superiors. Save the planet, girl! You're on a mission!
force them to do so and if you see any one being wasteful or who are not recycling then tell them to do so. You have to be strict about this kind of thing
Here is a grreat guide that tells you step by step how to do it. I'll only post the start of the article as I think it is too long to insert in an Answer. Good luck!
Nat'l. Office Paper Recycling Project's Office Paper Recycling Guide
Office Paper Recycling Guide
How your office can complete the recycling loop. Buy recycled paper products and collect office waste paper.
National Office Paper Recycling Project
The National Office Paper Recycling Project is a joint effort by private companies and public interest groups to promote a national office paper recycling strategy. The goal of the project is to maximize the recycling of office waste paper and to minimize its disposal. This guide to office recycling is intended to provide information on the importance of buying recycled products and collecting recyclable office waste paper.
National Office Paper Recycling Project
The United States Conference of Mayors
1620 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Director: Brian A. Day
Recycling Specialist: Chris Denniston
Project Manager: David Gatton
Illustrator: Margaret Scott
Contributors: Marla Dockery, Richard Keller and Dana Arnold
Editor: Cindy Spitzer
Copyright 1991 National Office Paper Recycling Project, All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce this Guide for non-profit purposes provided that each copy includes the foregoing copyright notice.
What is Recycling?
Recycling involves three distinct steps, represented by the three arrows of the traditional recycling symbol: (1) the collection and processing of recyclable materials, (2) the manufacture of these materials into new products, and (3) the purchase and use of recycled-content products. Offices can participate in recycling not only by collecting recyclable materials but is equally important to purchase and use recycled-content products. It is essential in fact that Buy Recycled programs are adopted. One without the other is self-defeating. Recycling exists only when the lop is closed. This guide is intended to assist you in doing both.
Why Recycle?
Paper and paperboard make up the largest component of solid waste by weight. In the U.S., over 40% of municipal solid waste is paper - about 71.8 million tons each year. Recycling office paper makes economic and environmental sense.
A few good reasons to recycle in your office:
* Recycling office waste paper saves valuable landfill space - 3 cubic yards for every ton of paper recycled - and extends the lives of our landfills. EPA reports that by the year 2000 half of the current 6,500 operating landfills will be closed.
* Throwing away paper is a careless waste of a valuable resource.
* Recycling fosters goodwill among employees and the community - many employees are recycling at home and want to help conserve our natural resources and landfill space by recycling at work as well.
* Your state law or city ordinance may require businesses to recycle office paper.
* An office paper recycling program will help your community meet its recycling goals
That's a great idea. Look into some of the local recycling companies in your area and get some price quotes. Then research what the effects would be with all of this paper that is not recycled. Then present all your info to the manager and just have him review it to see if it is something your company would be interested in doing.
Good luck.
I know just how you feel! I work for a district general hospital in the UK and it's criminal the amount of packaging we throw away every day. I wrote to the chief exec to ask whether there were any plans in progress to set up a recycling scheme. He hasn't replied yet though! You could always suggest it to management, with the incentive of good media coverage for the company...
Bring in recycling boxes and send out a company email about recycling. If your company is that large, I'm sure there are others. See if you can find anyone with some kind of advertising degree/knowledge that can help you make informative, attractive signs/posters. Start the ball rolling. I'm sure you'll find others who are willing to help and there will be a few who are resistant. Let them be. Just focus on what you are doing to help.
In the St. Louis area Abitibi Recycling offers paper/cardboard recycling as a fund raiser for non-profit organizations (I'm not certain what the proceeds are). Schools (public and private), churches, synagogues, etc., get green and yellow dumpsters called "Paper Retrievers" that sit on the parking lot. Some places specify what materials they take (one high school doesn't take boxes); others accept any paper-based item. My office was already recycling before I came here, but when I told them about this program and offered to take all our paper about once a week or so, they agreed that was an even better plan. We can then feel good about doing what's right for the environment and helping a worthy cause. If a program like this is available, you might use this to encourage recycling.
why not just convert a few of the regular trash cans into recycle cans and have a recycling company come by to pick them up once a week. you can usually tell the accounting team that this is to see if your company can make a profit off selling the paper to the recycling companies.
Morg
Most offices do recycle their trash. Check to see if the trash company does it. Sorting trash doesn't really help the recycling effort very much because trash still has to be sorted when it's dumped off at the recycling center. Having sorting bins in the office makes people feel better about it, but it doesn't help a whole lot. Since most of your office waste is paper anyway, the sorting job is easy.
All trash pickup companies either sort and recycle the trash themselves or they sell it off to be recycled by other groups. If you want to get sorting bins in your office, all you have to do usually is call the trash company that you already use.
Find out if there is a company near you that buys recycled paper...they do exist. Perhaps even the recycle company itself might pay for high quality waste paper. If you can show that your company could actually get some money back for recycling, you'll probably find a receptive ear from management.
there are special recycling bins that your company can get to recycle paper. this could be something to look into. if you have to do it yourself or get a group of people to help you recycle in your company. every little thing that you do will help and heck it might give your company a better name.
Well if you want to take the initiative, that's great, maybe mention it's also wasting their money.
One of the biggest way I save paper at my job is the print preview. That way I can review it and not actually have to have the hard copy unless its absolutely needed.
I also rip up into quarters what I have decided isn't useful.
You could also find a paper making company somewhere that might be able to take it in bulk, they might buy it, then at least your company would be able to cut down on the disposal. Maybe even get local schools involved in some kind of art league contest with scraps of the paper. or make a parade float for their homecoming.
OK - Slightly different slant here. Recycling can also include:
Vermiculture uses the paper by shredding and dampening the paper and then making it the top layer of their worm bins. Result - Worm Castings that are great for your garden, yard and house plants.
Composting: Paper (shredded) make a very good 'brown' ie DRY layer. Dampening beforehand and it will break down even faster. End result - again great stuff for your yard, garden, and house plants.
Point? There are companies, here in Phoenix, that do both of these, and will pay to pick up your clean recyclables.
You could donate the paper to a Child care centre so the children have more drawing and painting paper. At my old job we had a big cardboard box and took turns in taking it once full to the local childcare centre or primary school. Good luck at least you are good enough to care.
It only takes ONE person to start a trend, Why dont you start and hope everyone else catches on
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