HOW CAN YOU MAKE IT EASY TO RECYCLE IN YOUR facility?
While complying with commercial recycling legislation changes is a must for businesses in all sectors, recycling as much waste as possible in your facility is also a good move for your sustainability credentials and will help you to reduce waste management costs.
So, how can you make sure your customers and employees are recycling as much waste as possible? Here are our top tips:
1. Make it VISIBLE with clear and consistent signage
To maximise your recycling rate, you need to make it as easy as possible for people in your facility to recycle by making your bins visible and being clear and consistent with your signage and colour scheme.
Make sure your staff and customers can easily see how and where they can recycle. Place your bins so they are visible in areas of high footfall and where you know waste is being generated.
Colour-coded bins with clear signage and symbols that show what can and can’t be recycled will help you minimise costly cross-contamination and make it easy for people to recycle more.
You will need different types of bins in different areas of your facility but by maintaining consistent colours, symbols and messaging throughout, it’ll be easy for people to recycle wherever they are.
With many facilities catering for international guests and staff, using symbols and multiple languages on your signage can help make sure as many people as possible understand where they should put their waste.
2. Cultivate a recycling culture
Building the right culture in your facility will help you recycle more and work towards your sustainability goals. Bring your employees on the journey, making sure they know why recycling is important and their role in making it happen. Provide training that inspires your team to become advocates so they will champion sustainability with facility users and colleagues.
Maximise your recycling efforts by encouraging your facility users to deposit the right waste in the right bins. Use our editable poster templates to create instructional posters for your own facility and help build a culture of good recycling everywhere.
Our free Love to Learn Recycling online training has been designed to help businesses integrate sustainability into the workplace. The four interactive training modules streamline the most important knowledge your employees need to know, and help you embed a culture of recycling.
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