As a business leader tasked with improving your companies environmental sustainability efforts, how many different recycling bins have you implemented? Have you truly been able to achieve the levels of waste reduction you are challenged with? While the best method to reducing our environmental impact is source reduction, the reality is some amount of waste cannot be avoided. Our task then becomes finding the most efficient method to responsibly deal with what remains.
Based on existing technology, the most widely adopted solutions to date involve source separated recycling efforts that rely on your employees to dispose of their waste in the correct bin.
Having separate bins for Paper, Plastics, Cans, Glass, Organics, and “other” waste has becoming typical in commercial and industrial businesses alike to promote recycling and corporate responsibility.
Let’s start by breaking down the current process required:
- You must utilize additional space throughout your office and plant floors to maintain 4 to 6 additions bins;
- You will need to establish separate contracts for disposal of the different commodities you are sorting out;
- Your employees (should they choose to utilize these bins rather than dump their waste into a general bin) must then spend additional time to separate their waste into the proper bin.
- Your janitorial and cleaning staffs must make additional checks throughout the day as different bins will fill at different rates;
- Your waste haulers and commodity collectors must send multiple trucks to and from your facility which adds additional CO2 and other noxious emissions into the atmosphere;
- You will then likely to get tasked to create quarterly PowerPoint presentations showing results and total amount of each commodity recovered;
After all these efforts, at best you are likely only recovering approximately 50% of the recyclables and virtually no significant quantity of organic material. With what other metric can you as a business leader accept a 50% success rate and continue as a profitable and sustainable business?
With Green Power Technologies’ advanced waste separation and conversion process, all waste can be placed into the same bin.
Once waste is received at a Green Choice Bio-Recovery Center, our process will sort out the valuable commodities and recover up to 90% of the incoming material. These commodities are then resold and the organic material (paper, food waste) is converted into a clean biomass than can be used as a clean burning replacement for coal. As business owners and/or leaders, we have the obligation to consider the results of our actions and the long term sustainability of our environment. Implementing an employee dependent recycling program has been the right choice to make in the past, but now there is a better choice, a Green Choice, and it’s the future of responsible waste management.
