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!
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In March 2024, Maryland took a major step toward better understanding commercial waste streams by launching the Maryland Annual Business Recycling Report. Managed by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), the report is due annually on March 1 and requires businesses to report on the waste and recycling they generated during the prior calendar…
Past Insights
5 Easy America Recycles Day Events
The National Recycling Coalition started America Recycles Day 20 years ago and the celebration is now a part of Keep America Beautiful. Each year, November 15th is dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and buy recycled products. In support of this, we’re providing 5 easy to coordinate events that can help spread awareness at…
Are You Throwing Money Away?
For many, the fiscal year recently ended in June. That means, by now, you’ve closed out your budget and have started planning future budgets. Now, how many were shocked by how much you spent on waste last year? If you’re trying to better plan future waste expenditures or looking to slim your budget…
Compost Program 101 (Part 3): Decision Time on How You’ll Compost
Welcome back to our series of blogs on compost! In case you missed it, the first two laid out the basics of compost and shared how to get started with compost by doing an assessment. Click here: Got Food Scraps? (Part I) to see the first blog in this series (just in case…
Top 5 things we’ve heard….
Have you ever started a sustainability program but hit a road block when it came to getting it up and running? Program implementation can be frustrating, even for the most experienced of managers. Below are the top 5 problems we’ve heard from our clients in the past 12 months, if you’ve asked yourself…
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…
Does 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…
Got 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…
Are 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…
