{"id":1744,"date":"2011-05-25T12:45:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:46:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T10:46:04","slug":"recycling-is-good-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/recycling-is-good-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling is good for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does your business do with the waste materials it produces? Have you even thought about it?<\/p>\n<p>There are a surprising number of recycling options available &#8211; and many are listed by the <a title=\"business recylcing\" href=\"http:\/\/businessrecycling.com.au\/info\/\" target=\"_blank\">business recycling website<\/a>. This includes means of using those wastes to produce new products (the obvious recycling aspect) and ideas such as giving unused food to charity groups for direct reuse.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I believe in recycling as I hate seeing waste and hate perfectly good things filling up our tips. On top of that, there is the environmental aspect and a feel-good factor. However, for those who need a commercial justification for recycling business waste, here are a couple of points to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if your local council restricts your bin size, you have to pay to remove your waste materials so recycling may save you money directly<\/li>\n<li>more and more people care about the environment and &#8216;green&#8217; practices so start recycling and tell people (potential customers) about it &#8211; it won&#8217;t generate sales in itself but may be the deciding factor between you and a competitor one day<\/li>\n<li>your team will appreciate being able to &#8216;do their bit&#8217; for the environment so they&#8217;ll be happier and have one less reason to leave<\/li>\n<li>you may find recycling materials in-house gives you new product leads or saves you money, too. For example, making notepads for staff from old letterheads saves paper and the expense of buying notepads<\/li>\n<li>it can give you a conversation starter or <a title=\"finding topics to blog about\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/08\/finding-material-to-blog-about\/\">topics for blogging about<\/a> &#8211; and sometimes new ideas are hard to come by!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you think of things to recycle? I&#8217;d love to hear of your ideas and successes\u00a0&#8211; I may even copy some if applicable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does your business do with the waste materials it produces? Have you even thought about it? There are a surprising number of recycling options available &#8211; and many are listed by the business recycling website. This includes means of using those wastes to produce new products (the obvious recycling aspect) and ideas such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,53],"tags":[402,1208,132],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-word-constructions","category-bit-off-track","category-business-info-tools","tag-environment","tag-recycling","tag-waste"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}