subject: Save The Forests With A Sustainable Material Management Program [print this page] There are a myriad of reasons why forests are cut down. From the houses we sleep in to the paper products we throw away everyday, wood-based products cost us millions of trees every year. In North America we consume these products at a phenomenal rate as many disposable items are made from wood and lumber. Packaging from new products and shipments, paper documents and personal care products (paper towel, tissue paper etc.) get consumed in huge amounts across the country. Furthermore, large work environments such as commercial facilities or large office buildings can produce tons of paper-based waste in any given week.
How we deal with this waste will have a huge impact on the number of trees that need to be cut down, as trees are the fundamental raw material in the production of many of these products. Consumption of these products occurs in huge quantities for commercial buildings, and how these buildings choose to deal with their waste will have a significant affect on the consumption of trees moving forward. Recycling is the starting point, and it begins with collecting all recyclable material so that it doesnt end up in the landfill.
While recycling paper products is the baseline for saving trees moving forward, the real solution is offered by a few elite waste management companies in the form of sustainable material management. This service takes recycling to exciting new levels that very few waste management companies can offer. Here the goal is to not only keep recyclable material out of landfills but rather to use the collected recyclable waste to make new products. Heres how the process works.
You contact a waste management provider who aims to achieve the same goals as you, and together you work hard to maximize the amount of recyclable paper products that is collected and organized. Custom containers will be provided for your building, and once they are full they are picked up and brought to specialized processing plants (run by the same waste management company that provided you with the containers and picked them up). Here the paper based products are broken down and re-used as raw material to make new items. With this option, you are not only preventing garbage from ending up in landfills, you are preventing the need to cut down more trees for raw material that is sitting in your garbage containers. Hence, your paper product waste can become sustainable material for new products, helping future generations of trees, and people.
