Reducing the carbon footprint of the world is a continuous process that will help the world become sustainable. Recycling can positively reduce the harmful effects of man’s activities on the environment. Efforts encouraging recycling should not be limited to the workspace alone but also extended to homes. I bet many management authorities are not aware of the fact that they can build their team via recycling. With recycling, you can build sustainability into the company’s culture.
By leveraging on team building, you can encourage recycling in many ways.
Recycling is quite easy due to the abundant tools around with which we can recycle glass, paper, plastics, metals, etc. Encouraging recycling in the workplace is a brilliant idea. When you build recycling into your team, they will unconsciously take the knowledge to their home.
Besides, using the contest as a tool makes the whole endeavor fun while making a lot of employees develop an interest in it. This is a clever way to introduce recycling into the company culture. The recycling contest also encourages teamwork. This happens when you allow the workforce to create teams and compete with each other. You also save money for the company while also fostering a bond between the workers to achieve a beautiful goal for the firm.
In your workplace, there should be a team responsible for recycling activities. These team will be responsible for creating awareness about the wonderful opportunities that recycling has to offer in the workplace. It is the responsibility of the team to ensure that there is a recycle paper in the copying room. This will encourage recycling of paper, rather than disposing of it. It is their responsibility also to ensure that recycle bins are correctly located and used appropriately. With a recycling team, you bring employees together, encourage creativity and build teamwork. Besides, it is a proven way to solidify recycling as the firm’s culture since it will be a consistent practice.
Encouraging feedback will also ensure that the firm gets better with its recycling practice. There are many ways the company can go about this. Suggestion boxes located at strategic positions in the firm is excellent. There could also be a monthly recycling meeting which will involve all employees to deliberate on how to improve on the recycling effort.
Leveraging on the power of a team can help your firm to achieve anything, and also encourage recycling as part of its culture. You can educate your workforce on the right way to go about recycling. This will gradually build the habit in them which could reflect in their homes. Also, with strategic placement of recycle bins, it is easy to encourage and sustain recycling.
Get in touch with us at All County Recycling if you would like to know how we can help with recycling in your company. We encourage paper and cardboard recycling in New Jersey. We will surely help make your workplace a recycling conscious one!
