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Tips For Incorporating Recycling Containers Into Your Business

By: Christine Harrell

Recycling programs and environmental awareness have advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years. The effects humans can have on their environment and the amount of waste we generate on a yearly basis has come to light in a startling manner. Recycling programs, once relegated to small, far-off communities, has become the normal across the country and the world. Homes, businesses, and industries are embracing the recycling paradigm in a big way.

Business owners and operators are joining in by recycling their waste. Large companies are a big contributor to annual waste production and have implemented programs to rectify that problem. Growing companies are even better suited at integrating a recycling program as they can be more flexible in its implementation. Let's investigate some of the specifics of implementing a recycling program from placing recycling containers to encouraging employees to embrace the green paradigm.

KISS - Keep It Short And Simple

A successful program should not complicate recycling. A hurdle to implementing such a program is that employees often find it too difficult or inconvenient to recycle their waste all the time. A busy department is going to be resistant if they have to affect their own productivity. The sales department is not going to put a potential client on hold just to hunt down recycling bins when they have to throw away an old memo.

Making recycling easy will engage employees to fully participate in the program. By making recycling have an appeal, staff will more easily come to embrace it. For example, attractive steel recycling containers can be placed in the workplace. Roll out carts and utility bins can be used in non-office settings like a warehouse. Another option would be to invest in nondescript fiberglass recycling containers and have them in each department.

Where Recycling Bins Should Be Placed

Since we are talking about the placement of recycling containers, having a good outline or floor plan will help a recycling program get off of its feet. Containers have to be convenient to use as well as easy to dump.

Good places are niches or recesses that are near wide doorways and halls. Recycling bins will need that room in order to maneuver when they need to be dumped. Having very small recycling containers in tight spots will quickly overflow and be a royal pain to clean out. Place a priority on stationing containers near the area where waste is being produced. For example, the mailroom and the office printer/copier/fax machine will be producing a lot of paper waste which typically accounts for the lion's share of a business's recyclable garbage. Also, keep in mind local regulations for keeping fire lanes and exits free and accessible.

Purchase Company Recycling Containers

Containers are available for renting, borrowing, or buying. Growing companies, and even larger companies on a strict budget, often find that the cost of buying recycling bins to be prohibitive. Thankfully, many municipalities offer incentive programs for owning a set of bins and more programs are added on a constant basis. Owning a set of recycling bins allows a company to personalize them with the company logo and slogan. In the long run, they will pay for themselves versus just renting and offer a lot more flexibility.

Drafting A Formal Policy

It can be a touchy subject when considering creating a recycling program and making participation mandatory. Sometimes the firm approach can have the opposite effect. A well written office policy, however, can deflect those issues and allow for a more fluid implementation.

Instead of directly mandating participation, creating an office policy that indirectly encourages recycling is a good step. Emphasizing the benefits of recycling programs and pointing out the absurdly high levels of waste that Americans produce can be more persuasive than a simple order. Another option would be to explain the recycling program to show how easy it is, reducing resistance to participation. An inventive approach can work wonders.

In the end, the reality is that it's simple to incorporate recycling bins in your company. Encouraging employee participation will come naturally with a solid recycling plan. At the end of the day, an easy recycling program will engage employees all by itself.

Article Source: http://www.newarticledaily.com

Author is a freelance copywriter. For more information on recycling bins, visit www.wastewiseproducts.com/.

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