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3 Ways To Convince Your Boss To Start A Recycling Program
— Without a good commercial recycling program in place, your firm could be throwing away thousands of dollars every year. If you want to pitch your boss on the importance of starting a program, here are three compelling ways your company can benefit.Read More
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How To Avoid Buying The Wrong Kind Of Compostable Material For Your Eco-Friendly Event
— Just because an item has a BPI compostable badge, it does not mean it will be accepted as composted material by your local processor. It is essential that you contact your local processor to discuss which materials they will accept before purchasing them for your event.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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Ask Our Expert: 3 Tips for The Most Effective College or University Recycling Program
— If you’re the person in charge of implementing an effective recycling program for your college or university, you would love to meet our CleanRiver Regional Sales Manager, Tom Lembo. Tom offers some top tips of what makes the most effective college or university recycling program.Read More
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5 Tips to Determine Your Commercial Recycling Program Needs
— If you’ve been tasked with implementing a commercial recycling program for your office, where do you begin? To help you understand what goes into starting an office recycling program and what you need to consider to run an efficient one, Bruce Buchan, CEO at CleanRiver Recycling Solutions, provides some pointers.Read More
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How Many Different Bins Do I Need For My Recycling Program?
— Managers of commercial recycling programs and sustainability efforts can’t just live in the moment when it comes to waste bins. They need to know how many bins, and what types of bins, they will need now, a year from now and, ideally, 10 years in the future. Here is a crystal ball prediction at the number of waste bins you are likely to need tomorrow and in the future.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
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Product stewardship – recycling’s little helper.
— Magic is uniquely appropriate in delivering a message about how miraculous recycling can be. It can show in an instant what recycling achieves over the course of days and weeks.Read More
