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Simplify Your Recycling Plan with EasyPak Recycling
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Being environmentally conscious is something that, due to research and scientific evidence, is becoming more and more important to businesses and individuals across the world. However, many businesses still say that recycling spent lamps, batteries, and electronics can be a hassle. In America, 70% of toxic waste is electronic and spent lamp waste, so it’s of utmost importance to consider how you can minimize your footprint from day to day!
Setting Your New Year Goals with Recycling Reporting
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Properly recycling universal waste, including
mercury-containing waste, fluorescent bulbs, electronics, batteries, and more
is not optional. However, staff participation and proper handling of regulated universal
wastes often poses a challenge, potentially putting your company at risk.
Implementing a measurable action plan not only ensures compliance with state
and federal regulations, but also provides you with the tools to motivate and
encourage your staff to participate.
Why not recycle all of your universal waste?Make 2017 the year you recycle 100% of your universal
waste. Do you currently have a sustainable program to recycle all of your spent
lamps, ballasts, batteries, and electronics?Are you able to track the success of that program?
Set Goals and Track
Results with Total Program Management
If you’re interested in setting up a comprehensive recycling
program for your facility, goal setting is your first step. We start by helping
you define your company’s recycling goals and ensuring that your recycling
results can be measured against those goals.
Total Program Management, or TPM, provides you with
standardized reporting metrics for universal waste generation and provides you
with sustainability metrics you can brag about, perfect for demonstrating your “green
impact”.
Here's what TPM includes:
7 Step Implementation process
Regulatory guidance
Waste specific tools and services
Focused training and ongoing
program development
World class customer service you
can actually talk to
Key, compliance metrics to track
recycling progress against the goals you set
Online Certificates of Recycling
& other key regulatory documents
Results you can expect:
Compliance metrics
Safer work environment
Hassle free roll-outs across
facilities
Recycling metrics you can boast
about
Peace of mind knowing you are
doing the "right thing" environmentally
Let our experts show you how easy it is to start a program
by clicking here.
5 Must-Read Articles for Facility Managers Everywhere
Monday, November 7, 2016
As 2016 draws to an end, we can’t help but think of how much we learned in a year’s time. This week, we’re compiling a list of resources for facilities managers, straight from the most trusted publications in the industry. If you haven’t already come across these insightful articles this year, click through to hear from industry experts on retrofit planning, long-term maintenance, facilities management trend projections, and more.
2016 Money Saving Products: Buildings Magazine. Our Bulb Eater® was named a money saving product of the year by Buildings Magazine in 2012, and every year, the publication has made it easy to find products in every category, from janitorial solutions to energy monitors. Bookmark this article as your go-to for increasing efficiency of operations for facility managers.
PRSM Association Releases 2017 Trends Report: Facilitiesnet. In the retail industry? This report dives into projected 2017 trends and the effects they’ll have on facilities management decisions, touching on everything from federal regulations to transforming the retail environment.
Preserving Our School Facility Investments: School Planning and Management. Too often, school districts utilize non-recurring funding sources, like bond issue referendums, to fund major construction projects without establishing a plan for long-term maintenance or a plan to fund said maintenance. Consider this a school facilities manager’s guide to planning for long term maintenance.
Maintaining Our Standards: College Planning and Management. We guarantee you haven’t thought of regulations and industry standards in this way before. Take a look at how pushing the limits in facilities management could be a slippery slope in regards to efficiency and safety.
A High Performance Management Plan Will Help You Get the Most Out of Your Retrofit: Retrofit Magazine. Make a connection between replacing aging systems and attracting new clients, or maintaining structural safety and improving occupant health. This resource will help you explore the unforeseen benefits of your next retrofit.
Mail in Your Pre-Paid Universal Waste Recycling Containers for Auto-Reorder
Monday, October 24, 2016
Facility managers –
what’s on your to-do list for the end of the year? Now is best time to
determine if you are ready to return your Universal Waste container. If you’re
a member of our nationwide mail-in recycling program, you can easily mail in
your EasyPak™
containers using your pre-paid UPS label. Did you also know that automatic
container reorder is also an option? You will never have to remember to
re-order replacement containers when you sign up for our program.
With EasyPak™, recycling your universal waste is simple. One
price includes everything you need: the container, shipping to our permitted recycling
centers, and instant online and downloadable recycling reports.
How
does the EasyPak™ mail-in recycling program work?
Order
as many containers as your need for your facility. Whether you’re recycling
intact fluorescent lamps, ballasts, batteries, electronics, or thermostats, the
more you buy, the more you save.
The
EasyPak™ containers will be
shipped to you with a return UPS shipping label and instructions.
Once
the container is full, tape the box closed or seal the lid on the bucket, attach
the supplied shipping label with your facility’s name and address, and it is
automatically shipped it to the recycling center closest to you for processing.
Access
online Certificates of Recycling and reports.
Reorder
EasyPak™ products or sign up
for our Auto Reorder program.
How does
our Auto Reorder program work?
Automatic re-ordering is
available exclusively at www.lamprecycling.com. When you return a full
container to the pre-assigned recycling facility, a replacement container of
the same type will automatically be reordered and shipped to your facility. Our
container tracking software is available around the clock online, enabling
managers “cradle to grave” access for container status.
How safe
is the packaging of intact fluorescent lamps to ensure safe delivery to the recycling
facility?
At
Air Cycle, our products and services are designed to increase workplace safety
and efficiency. You can ensure the safety of not only your employees, but the
carriers who will handle your EasyPak™ VaporShield® containers.
Our VaporShield® containers have been engineered to provide
protection from mercury vapors due to accidental breakage. Click here to watch a short video on how to
easily assemble and pack an EasyPak™ VaporShield®
container.
If you’d like to learn
more about how your facility could benefit from a pre-paid mail-in recycling
program or our Auto Reorder program, visit www.lamprecycling.com or call us at
(888) 640-6700.
