Recycling Plastics And Other Materials To Save Money And Reduce Waste
Posted on: 14 May 2019
Recycling offers advantages at home and in business settings. For business, the benefits are larger simply because of the volume of material involved. If your business is not recycling, you may want to look at setting up a scrap plastic recycling program and getting started.
Saving Money
Recycling saves money in a couple of ways. The first is a reduction in the cost of disposal. If you have a lot of plastic waste products, you may be paying a lot to have it hauled away, but if you are recycling it, you can turn that cost around and make money recycling the material. Commercial recyclers buy many different types and grades of plastics so you will need to talk with a few different buyers to find the right one for your recycling.
The price the recycler pays is not the only thing to consider when you start weighing your options. If the recycler picks up the materials and supplies you with the containers for the scrap, the cost savings could offset the price they are paying and still make your program profitable.
Setting Up a Recycling Program
If your company is new to recycling, you need to set up a program that will spell out what you are recycling, where it needs to go for storage, and how the program will work. If you have some employees that regularly work with the material, include them in setting up the program. They may have some valuable insight and suggest some things you may not have considered. Once the details of the plan are decided on, put the policy in writing and be sure anyone who is affected by it gets a copy.
Implementation of Your Program
Set a date that the program will start on and let everyone know. If there are penalties involved for not complying with the guidelines, it is critical that people understand what they are. With some recyclers, putting even one piece of the wrong material in a container can be grounds for rejecting the entire container. If that happens a couple of times, the lost revenue from the plastic could be substantial, so it is critical that employees understand that.
Along with the recycling program, it is a good idea to set up a training program for people that will be handling the materials. Peer training is often the most effective, so if you train one or two employees, you can put them in charge of the training program, giving them a bit of ownership in the program.
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