Building Team Spirit Through Employee-Led Recycling Programs

Corporate team building programs create a sense of community with a company and help unite people behind a common goal. Many managers say team-building programs noticeably increase productivity and foster a closer working relationship between the group. When the entire office works toward something greater than themselves, employees feel a sense of achievement and investment in their work, colleagues, and the company itself. Overall, team building exercises are excellent ways to invest in employees as people.

Starting a recycling program for the office is a highly effective way to start a team building experience while also doing something positive for the environment and community. Waste Wise makes starting such a program easy with a wide array of recycling bins to manage waste and customizable recycling containers to promote the initiative.

The In-Office Recycling Containers Program

Starting or reinventing a waste management program at the office is an easy way to help build company morale. Waste Wise offers a number of recycling bins that make recycling easy, such as multi-compartment recycling containers for multi-stream waste and convenient office desk sized recycling bins for paper.

Waste Wise can put your company logo, slogan, or any graphic or text on to fiberglass recycling bins. To build a sense of team spirit, encourage your company’s recycling team to create their own recycling-focused slogan that can be printed, along with your logo, on the in-office recycling bins. Seeing these logos around the office can encourage participation in the recycling program while fostering company pride.

Empowering Employees While Helping The Environment

Encourage your in-house recycling taskforce to communicate the good they are doing to the rest of the office. Have them send out emails their fellow office mates that report how many trees were saved and how much greenhouse gas is removed from our air as a result of the office’s recycling efforts.

Challenge your office with healthy, competitive goals. Create an inter-departmental challenge to see which department can have the most impact on the environment through recycling. This could be limited to office recycling or could include the teams finding ways to clean up the community. The greater the challenge, the greater the sense of accomplishment!

Expanding Into the Community

Don’t let this team building experience stop at the office door. Sponsorship in the community to place customized recycling bins in public areas is an excellent want to help the community and further develop that team spirit.

Imagine what a great feeling it would be to be walking in a park with family and friends and then spotting one of “your” recycling containers? Putting recycling bins in the community that are designed to make waste management easier will help people keep their own neighborhoods cleaner. As an added benefit – it’s great advertising for your company!

There’s no doubt that team building initiatives build strong companies. And when you partner team building with doing something for the greater good of the community, it’s a win, win situation for all involved.