Re-cycling for the masses!

[divegirl]

Hi, if you work for a national company and you can see a massive amount of re-cyclable [sp] waste going to 'waste', what can you...or what would you do about it? I have spoken to my managers and they have in turn laughed at me....[so wish you could do an angry face on here....lol]. Re-cycling would and could be easy for this company....who do I contact?

Lisa x

[HWKE]

You could explain to the managers the cost savings associated with recycling. They are probably paying for things to be disposed of which they could sell for recycling/recovery.
This page may help.
http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page519.aspx

[divegirl]

Cheers for the link HWKE...... The main thing is....most of it would probably be collected for free via our local councils re-cycling schemes and I would imagine this to be nationwide!

[vehelpfulguy]

If you work for a national company they probably have someone at "head office" responsible for waste disposal, or maybe dangerous chemicals or safety and security, or something like that.

See if you can find out who they are and contact them directly.

If not contact your HR (human resources) department and see if they can put you in contact with the right person.

Thanks for taking this so seriously and shame on those managers who laughed at you.

I bet if they had to pay money to get rid of the waste they would soon sort it out.

[hartley]

Look in you local Yellow Pages under waste management or recycling. If you work in an office and produce lots of waste paper you should have no problem. Large amounts of clean, white office paper is worth quite a lot of money and you should be able to phone round and get some cheap quotes. Some may even take it for free (they can make their money from the paper itself), most will provide little bins for the office as well as big ones for the car park.

There's a couple of links below for national companies who do paper recycling, but your yellow pages might be more fruitful. If you can say where you particular office is I could provide better contacts.

http://www.biffa.co.uk/content.php?name=servic es/recycling/office_paper.html

http://www.wastecycle.co.uk/index.asp?c=1061

[Markandshez]

You are a business. I can see why your Managers aren't that interested.

We have a business in Lichfield - a council that tells everyone that will listen that they are the highest re-cycling council in the country.

Until it comes to trade waste. Domestically I am forced to recycle cardboard or be fined. They collect it for free and life is great. My business creates cardboard waste that the council charge me to pick up and then, and this is the best bit, - take it to the land fill site as they "don't recycle trade waste"

You may be doing your bit at home but I am guessing we create more cardboard than ten streets - and we are only a small shop.

And before you ask, if I take the trade waste home they will fine me �300

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