I want to recycle at work. But no one listens to me!?
My question is: Is it okay for me to go to my town's recycling center and give them my box full of paper three times a week. Or is that not allowed and against some rules??
I am also planning on shredding the paper just because we have names and adresses of our customer. Can that be recycled the same way?
I want to help and this is just one of the ways that I feel can make a small difference. I went to the Live Earth Concert this weekend and it has made an impact!
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I would suggest that you keep doing what you're doing. Recycle your stuff and start encouraging friends at work to do the same. It's likely that, as your friends start, it will have a domino effect and other coworkers will begin to do the same.
You can take recyclables to your local recycling center in any form, they will accept it, there are no legalities or rules against them accepting recyclables. Not all areas have recycling programs, so it's people like you who are important for this.
you should set up flyers and after that you should start recycling and maybe they will copy what you are doing because your doing the right thing.
the recycling of paper products is subsidized by the u.s. government...it costs more and uses more energy to recycle it than it is to use virgin pulp..fact. why do you not see people going around picking up paper, yet you do see people picking up aluminum cans?..any guesses? because recycling aluminum is profitable and it uses less energy to recycle it than it does to make a new aluminum can...are you beginning to understand how it works? all these other things are a complete waste of resources, and actually do more harm to the enviroment than to not do them..besides, growing trees to be made into copy paper is a good thing.
Considering that recycling paper engages the use of chemicals and other pollutants, and that trees are a renewable resource, it is kind of dumb.
The only things worth recycling are aluminum, plastics, rubber, and steel.
Shred it up really well, then bag it up for homeless people (tell them to bring the bags back for refills so you don't waste the bags). Homeless people really appreciate the money they get from these things. Make it seem like they're doing you a favor though so you don't hurt their feelings. They might even need it to sleep in or something (paper shreds make a warm bed, my dad used it for our dog).
You should ask management first. You may be doing the right thing,but management may and probably will think all the paper work is company sensitive and won't like you taking it out building.Documents with names and addresses can open up the company to a whole mess of legal liability if improperly deposed of. Even though it's trashed daily(they may incinerate it), and from your point of view recyclable.
ok hi well my opinion/suggestion is that you should go to the towns recycling center and give them the box full of paper but before you go you should shred it and give it to them.
and i think you should put up flyer's that say stuff like save our earth,or like recycle...i also think that you should encourage your friends and the workers to recycle.if they do that they can make a bigggg difference. You should also talk to your manager and ask him to make a rule of recycling so all the workers have to recycle.
I HOPE YOU SUCCEED=)
I like to congratulate you, for caring about the ecology, however, in the business place probably you're preaching in the desert. In general, the policies are: production, and more production. In the worst scenario, I assume your company is monitoring everything the personnel is doing, & if they find that your output doesn't satisfy the company, my friend you're history. Unless you own that place(& not even so), don't practice the ecology there, just strict business, punch out, & .
Wow, I am so proud of you. Even if one person recycles, it helps. Don't stop just because you think you are not helping. I'm not sure if shredded paper can be recycled, but I would think that it could be. Every city has different rules. Check with your city hall.
Keep up the good work! Stay strong!
first find out about recycling services in your area and also find out about your companies refuse bills and seee if the company they contract with does recylcing as well - it is easier to convince a compny to take on recycling when they won't have to deal with another company...
then see if they pay by the weight (most do) - inform them of how much they can save on their garbage bills if they reduced the output of garbage...
check to see if there are any places in your area that BUYS recycled materials or at least hauls it off for free...
take steps to start and run the recycling at work so that people can see how easy it is...the easier it is the more likely people are to do it...
Start slowly with putting out old Xerox boxes at each dest or here and there marked for recycling papers. Call the nearest recycling place and ask them to help you out. At my job they brought us a recycle bin for outside the building. Once a week, we take out the paper boxes and dump them. They collect the bins once a month or so and we are reimbursed with a tidy little check. Mine is a school, so we use our funds for Student Council sponsored dances for the kids! You could use it for the company Summer family picnic or a Christmas party or both! Use your imagination!
If that starts to take hold, you might add something like recycle bin for alluminum pop cans and plastic bottles.
If they are putting the paper in the trash then it shouldn't have confidential information so you can take it to the recycling center. However, they may be throwing away information the law requires them to shred and they will fear you will expose them.
If you have a reasonable volume then a recycling company will pay you for the paper. (Yes, recycling paper uses less water, energy, electricity and prevents the cutting down of trees that store carbon).
I think that because it's a part time job you should be very carefull, the most important thing that you need to be worried about or do is ask the employer for their consent because it could be viewd as theft or conspirring to remove imortant or confidential documents from your place of employment. There is allot of identity theft and contrct employees steeling reciepts and documntation from work via Garbage cans. Company espienause and stuff like that. You'll want to be very carefull about that.
It's nice that you want to recycle and perhaps no-one is listening to you because they already know that your wasting your time. My wife has implamented a recycle program in her company whereby she keeps the one sidded prints from the fax machine and photocopier and cuts them down into four quarter cheets then staples them togeather and gives them back as scratch pads where people can write on the plank side and scratch phone numbers and stuff. this is effective but we still have that confidential information on the reverse, such as what some contract paid last month or what somebodt still owes, not to mention who the account is and what they are being billed. if this information is handed to someone outside the company with a telephone number on the beck then it could get out and thereby you've just told your competitors what your billing them and next week you'll be out a contract and maybe even a job..
The best way to deal with this kind of refuse is via mobile shred companies who garuntee that your information will never be revealed.
If you give out sensitive information, with peoples names, or anything on it, you should be fired, and fined, unless you intend to check every page, how can you know for sure. Also, there maybe a reason they do not, are you in a position to override the people who hired you, or write your paycheck?
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