Recycling Its Good Business

The solid waste crisis has become a national problem. Landfills are filling up at an alarming rate & new ones are not being opened. Recycling is one immediate answer to this problem. It is estimated that at least 30 percent of ALL trash can be recycled! Our feature publication was written by people who are active in the recycling industry. Sections on the Environment, Items to be Recycled, Markets, Collection Programs & How to Start a Recycling Business are featured in this publication. For recycling to achieve its potential, businesses must join the millions of individual citizens who recycle every day. RMC Publishing Group, Ltd. has recently released a series of books written to help businesses implement recycling programs. "Restaurant Recycling Guide" (ISBN 0-9632789-3-2), "Bar & Tavern Recycling Guide" (ISBN 0-9632789-4-0), "Charities. How to Make Money Recycling" (ISBN 0-9632789-6-7), "Apartment Recycling Guide" (ISBN 0-9632789-7-5, "Hotel & Motel Recycling Guide" (ISBN 0-9632789-5-9), Business Office Recycling Guide" (ISBN 0-9632789-8-3) & "Recycling Alternatives for a City of 25,000" (ISBN 0-9632789-9-1) are NOW available. $7.95 per guide. Quantity & wholesale discounts available. RMC Publishing Group, Ltd., 713 Sandy Trail, Fort Worth, TX 76120. (800) 457-4167.

The amazing story of what Inc. magazine called “the coolest little startup in America.” Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton a decade ago to found TerraCycle, a company that makes the nonrecyclable recyclable. TerraCycle is now at the forefront of the eco-capitalist movement, partnering with more than 35 million people in twenty countries in the collection of waste and transforming that waste into useful products. Creating trash cans from chip bags and plastic benches from cigarette butts, TerraCycle has redefined recycling. Revolution in a Bottle is a rollicking tale of entrepreneurial adventure and an essential guide to creating a company that’s good for people, good for profits, and good for the planet. Since Revolution in a Bottle was first published in 2009, TerraCycle has grown dramatically from a small company offering worm poop in a soda bottle to a pioneer of recycling worldwide. This completely revised and expanded edition continues the story of this incredible company.

People are proud to recycle, but in recent years many have become suspicious the process isn't operating as seamlessly as we'd like to think. Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine makes sense of the complex system for any reader who wants to learn how it works, what the problems are, and what they can do to help recycling thrive

If your company wants to save money currently spent on waste hauling, disposal, and clean-up costs, while protecting the environment, this is the book for you. Let Trash to Cash serve as your implementation guide to an effective, on-going corporate paper recycling and waste reduction program. Berman addresses the major issues and realities surrounding paper consumption and recycling. This prescriptive guide can show you how to achieve a financially successful program for your company. Fully illustrated, Trash to Cash contains practical and insightful case studies that demonstrate how successful programs have been created and kept alive at AT&T, McDonald's, Merrill Lynch and other role-model corporations. Learn how to be on target environmentally while saving your company thousands, even millions of dollars.

For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, Economies of Recycling radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes. Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded. With case studies from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, China, the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe, this timely collection debunks common linear understandings of production, exchange and consumption and argues for a complete re-evaluation of North-South economic relationships.