How Can I Reduce My Company’s Waste?
In a typical office setting, waste is broken down into a few key categories:
How Can My Family Lower our Dependence on Paper Products at Home?
Lowering your dependence on paper products is both environmentally friendly and cost-effective. Many businesses and individuals are trying to reduce their reliance on paper products. Luckily, the expanding world of technology is making it much easier to reduce the amount of paper people use on a daily basis. However, there are still some old-fashioned tips…
How to Practice Solid Waste Reduction at Home
The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that each person in the U.S. generates roughly 4.4 pounds of waste every day, an increase of over 20% since 1980. Trash disposal companies in Connecticut shift millions of tons every year. All that trash is building up to an environmental disaster as suitable space for landfills begins…
Sustainable Solutions You Can Use at Home
Companies can make a large impact on the environment by using environmentally sound practices, but individuals can also make a difference on a smaller scale. Creating waste and using too many resources are problems for the environment, but you can reduce the impact of both these by finding sustainable solutions to everyday environmental situations in…
How to Profit by Recycling Food Waste
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) food waste is second only to paper waste in the amount generated each year. In 2010, more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated, accounting for 14 percent of municipal solid waste. Less than three percent of this waste was recycled, a figure that the agency…
How Can My Business Practice Environmental Sustainability?
The green movement is a planet wide initiative to change the way we behave and make sure that our children are left with a better environment than we inherited from our parents.
Plastics: What is and isn’t Recyclable?
Plastics are cost-effective, convenient, lightweight and relatively unbreakable, and they are used to manufacture many common products these days, from disposable and reusable food containers to toys. However, all plastics are not equal, and there are health and environmental concerns related to the widespread use of them. Environmental problems include the facts that the majority…
How Your Business Can Save Money by Going Green
Going green isn’t only good for the environment, it can be good for your business’ bottom line. Trendy companies today are finding that they can add income to their company by sticking to the old adage, “Reduce, reuse, recycle.” Whether you’re running a restaurant or managing a factory, put green policies into effect throughout the…