Our Take On Green
February 21, 2012 2:18 PM
Our “Green Office Tip of the Week,” this week focuses on our most popular service, lamp recycling. EverLights works to help businesses understand the value of fluorescent lamp recycling. Not only does recycling lamps help the environment, but your company can also be fined up to $25,000 if it doesn’t follow the proper procedures. You can find this green paper detailing lamp and ballast recycling strategies on our website. In this post, we’re going to strip the green...
February 16, 2012 11:17 AM
Saving money is always on the mind of business owners. At the same time, most companies are invested in environmental programs on some level. Whether it’s as simple as recycling paper in the office, or as involved as a complete office overhaul. Here are a 5 things your company can do to go green and reduce annual energy costs.
Turn Off Computers When They’re not in Use
Leaving a computer on doesn’t seem like it’s an expensive thing to do when you look at it on a daily...
February 14, 2012 12:00 PM
With new e-waste recycling laws popping up around the country, we wanted to give you a set of questions to ask your current recycling company, or a company you are considering working with. Although this specific list was compiled with e-waste in mind, some of the questions can also be used when recycling other materials.
Don’t worry, we’ll tell you what you should expect to hear in response to these questions too. If the recycling company tells you something different, or doesn...
February 09, 2012 1:02 PM
Setting up a recycling program of any type for your office can seem like a hassle. You have to find a recycling company, order bins, consolidate products from those bins into one larger bin and then schedule a drop-off or pick-up for those materials. A lot of us are so overwhelmed with the work we do already that adding another thing to the list isn’t our top priority. We understand that completely, which is why we offer the easiest way to recycle batteries. Our mail-in recycling program...
February 02, 2012 2:38 PM
These days it seems like every company is trying to go green, and we’ll be the first to back those efforts up. To prove how supportive we are, we decided to bring back our “Green Office Tip of the Week” segment this week to offer up our thoughts on how your company can improve its recycling efforts.
In order to do so, we’ve compiled a list of 19 things that your office can, and should, recycle. Recycling is the easiest way to go green. There are businesses around the...
January 31, 2012 3:12 PM
Here’s the situation. You’ve read our previous posts about e-waste recycling, or heard about the new laws from other sources, and you decided it’s time to get serious about recycling your old electronics. Now the question is, how do you do it?
Well you’re in luck, because we have all the answers to your problems.
One of the many services EverLights offers to its customers is e-waste recycling. That should come as no surprise, considering how much we talk about it. We...
January 26, 2012 2:22 PM
The answer is 11.5 pounds per person each year, which comes out to 80 billion pounds total.
This week’s top green news stories include mind-blowing facts about e-waste disposal, mercury’s effect on wildlife, and a college spending over $9 million on its sustainability efforts. Click any of the headlines to read the entire story.
1. Mercury’s Harmful Reach Has Grown
In a recent article published by The New York Times, the author discusses the less-publicized benefits of the new...
January 24, 2012 12:17 PM
It’s no secret that the fastest growing type of waste is electronic equipment (e-waste), growing by nearly 5 percent every year. Technology is constantly improving, and people want the latest and greatest that these companies have to offer. As a result, more e-waste is being disposed of, most of which ends up in the wrong places. We thought it would be a great idea to share some statistics about how much e-waste is generated, thrown away and recycled to give you a better idea of how...
January 17, 2012 10:48 AM
A lot of businesses don’t go through lamps very quickly. Smaller locations use less, so naturally they have less to recycle. The easiest thing to do would be toss the lamps in the garbage with everything else, right? Wrong. There are better solutions than putting yourself (you can be charged up to $25,000) and others at risk. The best option for businesses that don’t use a lot of lamps is a recycling pak program. What is that, you ask?
Simply put, a recycling pak program is an easy...
January 12, 2012 2:20 PM
Picking the five best “green” news stories every week is no easy task. It seems like each week the news becomes more important and the stories are told in better ways. After a lot of deliberation, here are the five stories that we thought you should have read this past week.
1. President Obama’s Speech to EPA Employees
It’s clear the President understands the importance of keeping our earth clean, and he supports the efforts taken by the EPA to do so. Earlier this week...
