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Plastic Free July – 4 Ways CleanRiver is Fighting Plastic Pollution & How You Can Help
— It’s Plastic Free July! Here’s how we’re fighting plastic pollution and how you can help eliminate and reduce plastic waste this month.Read More
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5 Tips to Start an Amusement Park Recycling Program
— Amusement parks are quite popular in the warmer months, there are crazy rides for the daring and water slides for the fish out of water. Interested in starting a recycling program for an amusement park? Here are five tips to make it happen.Read More
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6 Steps To Improve Your Waste Diversion Rate
— If you're in charge of your facility's recycling program we’ve outlined the six simple steps you need to take in order to start increasing your facility’s waste diversion rate and start saving money.Read More
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CleanRiver Q & A: What Is A Waste Diversion Rate And Why Is It Important?
— What actually is waste diversion and why is it so important in recycling program success? In order to help you understand waste diversion and its importance, we’ve compiled the top 5 questions we get asked around waste diversion along with our answers.Read More
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11 Office Recycling Resolutions For A Sustainable 2018
— Instead of setting resolutions for yourself in 2018, try setting them as a team for your office or business and work together to meet your recycling program goals. Not only can you reduce your carbon footprint but by becoming more sustainable, you can save yourself and your business money.Read More
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4 Simple Ways To Get Your Kids To Recycle
— Recycling doesn’t have to be a pain. Teaching our kids how simple waste diversion can be is our responsibility as parents and as citizens of this planet. Here are some simple tips to help your kids become expert recyclers.Read More
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How to Get A Recycling Grant: Turn Your Trash into Treasure
— When it comes to initial funding to start a recycling program many businesses may not have the budget available. Whether it’s a government green grant for recycling businesses or other types of programs that are more generic, there is lots of money out there for the taking you just have to do a little bit of research of which recycling grants you may be eligible for.Read More
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The 3 Reasons Why Adding A Story To Recycling Bins Increases Program Participation & Lowers Contamination Rates
— A good book is a portal to other worlds by the story it tells. George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones led millions into the land of Westoros the characters and plot twists made it one of HBO’s most successful series. Help your bin, and your recycling effort, by enchanting it with the gift to tell its story.Read More
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6 Tips for Businesses to Comply With New York City’s NEW Recycling Mandates
— New recycling rules for businesses come into effect August 1st in NYC. The intent is to divert a significant amount of waste that is normally sent to landfills into recycling plants instead. CleanRiver shares 6 top tips to help businesses comply with the new mandates.Read More
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How Recycling Impacts Your Bottom Line.
— We’ve all seen social media posts where disgruntled consumers in various venues have taken pictures of recycling bins that look to be separating waste and recycling. However when the savvy consumer has opened the recycling bin they’ve discovered that trash and recycling are all going into one container inside. The impact of misleading your consumers whether intentionally or not can be catastrophic to your bottom line.Read More
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The Invisible War of Bottle Bill Legislation
— States which do not have deposits on cans and bottles only see a recycling/recovery rate for these items in the 30% range. For states with a deposit on cans and bottles there is a recovery rate in the 60Read More
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Sustainability Manager’s Recycling Program Checklist
— Being tasked with implementing a facility-wide recycling program can be overwhelming for a Sustainability Manager. Here’s a quick checklist to help you nail it!Read More
