Thoughts on Waste Reduction, Zero Waste, Sustanability and Such
In our trash talking blog, we write about trends, tips, and issues in the waste and environmental sustainability world. We hope you'll find something useful to help your company be more sustainable. If you want us to explore something or ask a question, contact us!
Compost Program 101 (Part 2): Assessment
Now that we’ve got the basics of compost under our belt (click here to see the first blog in this series post in case you missed the intro to compost!), let’s move on to the first step of implementing a compost program: conducting an assessment. First, we’ll start with a waste audit, which…
Read MoreDoes Your Pharmacy Recycle?
Whether you’re a stand-alone pharmacy or a hospital with multiple internal pharmacies – you’ve got A LOT of boxes and plastic containers. Boxes are perfect to divert as single-stream recycling! We recently rolled out a customized program throughout a large hospital’s pharmacy. Of the 18 workstations that we assessed in the pharmacy, we…
Read MoreGot Food Scraps? (Part I)
Whether we like it or not, we create compostable waste every day. The luckiest among us have established composting infrastructure to divert that waste from landfills and incinerators. The rest of us are left to try and figure out how to best to dispose of our company’s food waste, yard waste, and other…
Read MoreAre Food Waste Bans Giving You a Headache?
We all agree that recycling is important, right? But have you considered recycling food waste? When food is placed in a landfill, it slowly breaks down and releases methane, a greenhouse gas linked to climate change. No one likes that. Check out the newest list below of states and cities focused on diverting…
Read MoreHire a Sustainability Team that Cares
Have your employees become disengaged when it comes to sustainability? Are you tired of asking questions and not getting any answers? If you’ve signed up for an all-inclusive waste program, chances are, you feel like all the life has been drained out of your sustainability program. We can reinvigorate it for you. Now,…
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Do You Want to Save $35,000?
Saving $35,000 sounds impossible, right? Wrong. Inside the operating room there’s a HUGE opportunity. According to Practice Greenhealth, the operating room can account for 30% of all waste generated facility-wide and up to 60% of all regulated medical waste (RMW). And, did you know that the average cost of RMW is 11 times…
Read MoreReduction In Motion awarded Sustainability Partnership Game Changer Award at this year’s Waste Expo
On September 20, 2016, Reduction In Motion received the Sustainability Partnership Game Changer Award from the National Waste360 Recycling Association, through our collaboration with John’s Hopkins University School of Medicine and ASI Waste. We are proud to have achieved this honor for ourselves and our clients and would like to thank everyone who…
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Do you have a trashy co-worker? We can help!
Montgomery County has been a nationally recognized leader in waste diversion and recycling for decades. The county leaders have set a goal to have at least 70% of all waste generated in the county recycled and/or diverted from the landfill by 2020. According to their press release this new goal “puts Montgomery County…
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