Question by concerned: How can I get my employer to recycle?
I work for a large corporation which throws away probably a ton of paper everyday on the administrative side and more on the sales floor. I have asked the store manager why we don’t recycle, and he gave me a very defensive, evasive answer. He says they recycle cardboard boxes and plastic, and that it’s currently to hard to recycle paper. We use more paper in a day than the other two combined! Who can I contact to get the ball rolling on this?

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Answer by Kipster
I can’t give you a specific answer because I don’t know where your company is located. I would start on three fronts, one being the local municipality or city offices. They may provide haul-away containers that they come get on a scheduled basis.
Another way to get this material recycled would be to look up private companies that are interested in this. An example would be the fiber-fill insulation business. They take old paper stock, shred it and mix it with a flame retardant for blow-in building insulation.
Then the third way, would be to get your company to reduce its paper usage by going to electronic documents. I can’t give you any names right off hand, but I know that some information technology companies specialize in this, and they have actual migration plans to get from paper to electronic documents, with archival storage This is the most attractive option, as it both saves a tree to start with and second it saves the company company money. That is money after a time period, because you have an initial start-up cost involved.

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