June 2018 | Waste Wise Products

June 2018

Joining the #kickplastic Movement

Joining the #kickplastic Movement

By now our reliance on single-use plastics and their lasting effects are well documented. A few seconds of use leads to centuries of consequences.

Create A Recycling Incentive Competition for your Office

Create A Recycling Incentive Competition for your Office

Bringing your office together to accomplish a common goal can help create connections deeper than business. Teams who deeply understand one another can manage conflict more intelligently, and solve problems more collaboratively and creatively.

Green Team Building through Adopt-a-Highway Programs

Green Team Building through Adopt-a-Highway Programs

If you've been looking for ways to build team spirit and help care for the environment, you'll want to consider adding an Adopt-a-Highway program to your list of options.What It IsThrough the Adopt-a-Highway program, community groups take responsibility for regularly cleaning a selected stretch of roadway.

Five single use products you can stop using today

Five single use products you can stop using today

The easiest way to stop plastic pollution is to continually remind yourself that single use products are not worth the environmental price. We have a list of five single use products that you can swap out with reusable products.

How You Can Help Reduce Single Use Plastic

How You Can Help Reduce Single Use Plastic

When we think about recycling, we think about our recycling bins and how diligently we work to sort our trash. We take pride in thinking that we are helping our environment.

Cleaning Plastic Pollution From the Ocean

Cleaning Plastic Pollution From the Ocean

While governments and businesses wrestle with the problem of plastic pollution through recycling and other schemes, the issue of the plastic that has already made it to the ocean persists. According to the Interesting Engineering site, a nonprofit called the Ocean Cleanup is ready to deploy a device in the Pacific Ocean to start gathering up the stuff so that it can be collected and taken back to shore for processing.

3 Ways to Make Your Office More Eco-Friendly

3 Ways to Make Your Office More Eco-Friendly

Let's face it, the office environment was not created with the intention of conserving our natural resources. Luckily, small adjustments can make a large impact on the way our offices affect the environment.

Building Up Your Team to Go Green

Building Up Your Team to Go Green

New rules and culture can be challenging to implement in an office environment. Generating employee enthusiasm about green habits doesn't have to be! Employees can transition easily when they participate and engage in the change.

Cutting down on food waste with grape pomace

Cutting down on food waste with grape pomace

Food waste is not something we associate with winemaking. However, as ZME Science points out, roughly a quarter of the grape in the form of skins, seeds, and stalks is thrown out when the fruit of the vine is transformed into wine, 14 million tons of the stuff, as it turns out.

Does Your Office Celebrate Sustainably?

Does Your Office Celebrate Sustainably?

In former days, nothing said celebration quite like a good old-fashioned balloon drop. Whether you were hosting a concert, announcing the grand opening of a retail store, or marking a special cultural holiday, balloon drops and releases of helium balloons seemed the way to go.