August 2017 | Waste Wise Products

August 2017

Designing for Sustainability: Cradle to Cradle Certification

Designing for Sustainability: Cradle to Cradle Certification

Sustainability has been working backward, from developing recycling and reuse innovations for made products to substituting healthier materials in current designs, and now to the new standard, designing for sustainability. What does this actually mean? Products are designed, from the idea forward, with sustainability and safety in mind.

How Color & Imagery Can Boost Your Recycling Efforts

How Color & Imagery Can Boost Your Recycling Efforts

A key component to starting up an effective recycling program is to connect the recycling effort to the people who are going to participate in the program in a way to which they can relate to. For example, if you are starting a recycling program for your business, using the business logo on the recycling receptacles can help employees feel a connection to recycling to help their company.

What is Waste Valorization?

What is Waste Valorization?

While there is a widespread understanding that climate change is a danger, energy and natural resources are becoming scarce, and pollution is an ever present threat to human and animal health, these understandings have not translated into changes in the amount of waste we produce.

Challenges of Reuse & Recycling for 9.7 Billion by 2050

Challenges of Reuse & Recycling for 9.7 Billion by 2050

Among the challenges and opportunities, a global population of 9.7 billion will bring to the world, resource allocation and use are going to stand out as some of the most critical.

A Less Wasteful Solution For Cooling Down Cities

A Less Wasteful Solution For Cooling Down Cities

Cities are hot. One of the major reasons for this is that cities tend to trap heat, particularly given the sheer amount of blacktop in urban areas.

How To Run A Successful College Campus Recycling Program

How To Run A Successful College Campus Recycling Program

A successful college or university campus recycling program depends upon the entire process being profitable to the remanufacturer that is organizing the recycling effort. The benefits of a good recycling program, however, are evident including removing waste from landfills as well as providing a new market for the recyclable materials to be made into new products.

Why Choose 100% Recycled Park Benches?

Why Choose 100% Recycled Park Benches?

When it comes to outdoor seating, today’s park benches come in many shapes and sizes. Not only do they give your patrons a place to sit, relax and enjoy the outdoors, but a good bench creates ambiance and makes your space more inviting in general.

A Case Study In Recycling Bins: An Academic Study

A Case Study In Recycling Bins: An Academic Study

What Are the Benefits to Providing Recycling Bins? Providing recycling bins gives people the option to recycle their waste in public places rather than just throwing it into trash cans. This can prevent recyclable materials from ending up in our already overly full landfills.

5 Easy Zero Waste Habits You Can Adopt

5 Easy Zero Waste Habits You Can Adopt

The average American throws away 4.5 pounds of trash every day.

Cutting down Food Waste with Imperfect Produce

Cutting down Food Waste with Imperfect Produce

The United States produces a colossal amount of food, but as folks who watched reports like the one aired on Last Week Tonight know, a huge amount of that food winds up decomposing in landfills. While the issue that unsold food goes straight to the dump instead of to hungry people who would gladly eat it is important, there is another aspect of our massive food waste problem that often gets overlooked.