Business Support
Recycling Makes $ense
Recycling in your business can affect your bottom line
Recycling paper and cardboard will reduce the amount of waste that your business disposes.
Recycling can save money by reducing the size of your waste dumpster, or by decreasing the number of times that dumpster is serviced.
Reducing the amount of paper and cardboard that goes into a landfill saves natural resources and protects the environment.
Recycling, instead of disposing, and buying recycled content materials supports the recycling system.
Contact us if we can help you get started.
Material Exchange
The underlying principle of a waste exchange is that "...one person's trash is another person's treasure."
There are exchanges within Ohio that assist businesses in finding materials that are needed or finding outlets for materials that they need to dispose of. Instead of these materials just going to a landfill, they are exchanged through a network of businesses.
For more information on these exchanges please visit the following sites:
- Bowling Green Orphan Chemical Recycling Program
165 College Park Office Building
Bowling Green, OH
419-372-2173
fax: 419-372-2194
Email: daveh@bgnet.bgsu.edu - Mahoning Valley Materials Exchange
www.mvme.org
Marcia Barr
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555
330-941-2742
fax: 330-941-1542
Email: certt@eng.ysu.edu - Ohio's Material Exchange (OMex)
www.aor-omex.org
Diane Shew
PO Box 70
Mt. Vernon, OH 43050
888-718-6639
Fax: 740-397-7649
Email: tryomex@aor-omex.org
Resources
Ohio EPA link for fluorescent lamps
Other Helpful Business Links
Waste Wise Program
www.epa.gov/epawaste/partnerships/wastewise/index.htm
U.S. Green Building Council
www.usgbc.org
Ohio State fact sheet on business recycling
http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/0184.html
Market prices of recycled commodities
http://grn.com/grn/prices/rm-prices.htm