| The current economy is making nearly everyone | | | | This shift in resource management has resulted in |
| re-evaluate their expenditures and look for ways to | | | | substantial savings for many businesses already. |
| improve their bottom line. Profit margins are tighter | | | | Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle found that they |
| than ever and every step in the right direction makes | | | | reduced their garbage expense by $170,000 in the |
| a difference. Many businesses may be surprised to | | | | first year after installing recycling containers and |
| learn that they can improve their bottom line with | | | | implementing a recycling program. They also reduced |
| single stream recycling containers. | | | | their contributions to local landfills by 80%. Those |
| Single stream recycling refers to the most convenient | | | | numbers are significant for any business and the |
| recycling method available today: everything that is | | | | recycling program at Virginia Mason Hospital will only |
| recyclable goes into the same recycling bin and is | | | | become more efficient and productive as patients |
| picked up and processed by a service provider. | | | | and employees become more familiar with the new |
| Recycling bins come in a variety of sizes and shapes | | | | recycling containers and the program. |
| and they can be customized to match your | | | | Garbage can turn from a liability to an asset with the |
| company's decor while reducing your trash expense | | | | simple implementation of single stream recycling |
| and limiting the amount of material disposed of in | | | | containers in only a matter of days for businesses of |
| landfills. | | | | all sizes. Single stream recycling companies are able to |
| Garbage Is Expensive | | | | provide individual assessments of the contents of |
| Every business owner knows that garbage collection | | | | your current garbage flow to provide reliable |
| and disposal can become prohibitively expensive. Until | | | | predictions on the expected outcome of |
| recent years, there were no other options except to | | | | implementing such a program and installing recycling |
| rent a dumpster and pay a garbage service for the | | | | containers throughout your facility. |
| removal of your trash. The environmental movement | | | | Convenience And Service |
| of the 1970s and the realization that landfill space is | | | | Single stream recycling containers incur far greater |
| limited and that toxins seeping into the soil are less | | | | participation rates than item-by-item recycling bins, |
| than desirable has lead to a boom in the recycling | | | | simply by being so convenient. Participants do not |
| industry. | | | | need to sort anything. Paper, plastic, and metal all go |
| Business owners can take advantage of these new | | | | into the same recycling bin; the materials are then |
| resource management options through the use of | | | | sorted at the processing plant. This added |
| single stream recycling bins. Recycling programs cut | | | | convenience and individualized service go a long way |
| your monthly trash expense significantly. Instead of | | | | to reduce the garbage expense paid by your |
| paying to have recyclable materials thrown into | | | | business each month. |
| landfills, business owners can install recycling | | | | Reduced garbage expenses and improved goodwill |
| containers within their facilities that will cut their | | | | from your customers for being environmentally |
| garbage expenses significantly, improving their | | | | responsible will both go a long way to improve your |
| bottom line. | | | | company's bottom line and the overall health of our |
| Turn The Tables On Trash | | | | planet. |