This month's edition is all about money! We give you three key steps on how to get your recycling program generating income, and we also advise on how incorporating organics in your stream collection can end up saving you money on your waste hauling.
Make Money from Your Recycling Program
Your recycling program can be a valuable income generator which improves your bottom line or frees up funding for other sustainability initiatives.
Organics Collection - how Saving the Planet can Save you Money
By implementing an effective composting program you'll not only avoid fines and help the environment, you can also realize significant decreases in your waste hauling costs. Here are a few tips to get you started on the road to composting nirvana.
Reducing food waste can help restaurants improve the bottom line by identifying wasteful purchasing, identifying opportunities to sell waste for recycling, realizing tax benefits for charitable contributions, and avoiding penalties for violating laws aimed at reducing the amount of organic material that ends up in landfills.
Oxygen-Free Recycling Technique Could Keep Tons of Plastics from Landfills
Wider deployment of pyrolysis, where non-recycled plastics are heated in the absence of oxygen to convert them into valuable fuels and feedstocks, would not only reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills but also generate billions of dollars, according to a new analysis by the American Chemistry Council (ACC).
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