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Marketing Your Green Initiative With Recycling Reporting
Monday, April 25, 2016
When it comes to marketing your green business, there’s more
to environmental responsibility than meets the eye. Incorporating green
business practices can provide the opportunity to connect with environmentally
conscious consumers and businesses. Are you ready to start publicizing your
reduced impact? Here’s how to get started.
Know Your Customers. Why should they care? It’s important to share
how you’re making an impact in a way that is meaningful to the end user. How
can your green initiative fit into their lifestyle? In the hotel industry,
reminding consumers that the CFL bulbs in their rooms use less energy and are
properly recycled after use increases their green perception without taking
anything away from their hotel experience.
Avoid “greenwashing.” Be transparent about what green means to you.
What are you actively doing to reduce your impact? What certifications does
your organization have? There’s a big difference between encouraging your
employees to carpool to work and actively recycling all of your fluorescent
bulbs, batteries, and electronics.
Utilize your reporting. In business-to-business corporations,
tracking and publicizing green progress provides the opportunity to market your
results to a new type of customer. Air
Cycle offers online, official Certificates of Recycling, issued to facilities
after recycling waste with EasyPak or an Air Cycle bulk pickup. Tracking the
amounts and types of universal waste recycled not only proves to regulatory
officials that you’re recycling your waste, but also provides the opportunity
to market your progress.
Air Cycle’s customers have seen the benefits of using their
recycling reporting to market their green efforts firsthand. “Our customers in
our buildings want to see proof that we are recycling our waste properly,” says
Scott of CBRE. “All we have to do is look up the recycling certificate online
and print it out to show them how well we’re doing.”
How are you including green reporting in your current
corporate environmental plan?
Air Cycle Corporation
is a simple sustainable solutions and technologies company. We believe that
people want innovative tools and services that are easy to use, improve
results, save money, and are environmentally protective. Air Cycle is committed
to developing those tools and services in order to help people and protect our
environment, and create opportunity for our team and partners.
How To Safely Seal Your EasyPak VaporShield Containers
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Our
products and services are designed to make recycling more convenient, safe, and
cost-effective for organizations of all sizes. To ensure the safety of all
employees and carriers who handle your EasyPak containers from the moment they
hold their first fluorescent bulb, to arriving at a certified recycling
facility, it is important to follow all of the instructions included on your
EasyPak VaporShield Box. That means not only properly assembling the container,
but also making sure that the container is properly sealed before shipment.
Share this short
video with your team to learn how to easily assemble and pack an EasyPak
VaporShield container to ensure safety during handling and delivery.
Need a helpful
reminder? Print out these instructions to keep handy while you’re packing
fluorescent bulbs for shipment.
When
assembling your box for the first time, press the end cap into one end of the
center section.
Remove
the white strips from the pressure sensitive tape on the first end cap, and
press the folds firmly along the sides of the center section.
Seal end
cap to container with 3”wide box
tape. Seal all edges and corners for shipping. Make several wraps around the
intersection of the end cap and center section of the box to create a tight
seal. Tape should cover all of the creases created by the end cap.
Press
firmly on the tape to ensure that it adheres.
When you
begin to fill the box with spent lamps, be sure to write the accumulation start
date in the box on the side of the center section.
If the
box is not entirely filled, insert the end cap into the open end of the center
section without taping. This will keep the box closed when not in use.
When the
box is filled with linear fluorescent lamps, press the end cap down onto the
center section until the lamps pierce the first layer of cardboard on the end
cap, holding the bulbs in place.
Remove
the white strips from the pressure sensitive tape located on the underside of
the end cap, and press the folds firmly along the sides of the center section.
Repeat
steps three and four to the opposite end cap to ensure a secure seal.
The University of New Mexico's Recycling Problem - Solved.
Monday, April 4, 2016
The University of New Mexico is a nationally recognized leader in higher education that prides themselves in their use of sustainable practices to ensure a positive impact on the environment. As part of this commitment to being a “green university,” UNM searched for a safe and economical way to handle fluorescent lamp waste.
Since these lamps contain mercury and proper management and disposal is regulated by the EPA, sending spent lamps to a local landfill was not an option. Instead, UNM would have to find a simple, sustainable solution for handling and disposing of lamps. This solution would have to:
“The UNM needs a safe and economical way to dispose of fluorescent lamps that requires less time, labor, storage space, and recedes cost for proper disposal.”
Scott George, University of New Mexico
How did the University of New Mexico find a simple, sustainable solution that met all of their needs? Read the full case study here to find out how you can reduce costs and risk of potential lamp breakage in your facility with the help of AirCycle.com.
