RECYCLING 1 RECYCLING 5 Recycling Latoya Jones University Maryland Global Campus 2/1/2020 Recycling The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report in 2016, highlighting the significance of recycling and reusing materials. How materials are used in an organization is crucial in ensuring a sustainable economy as well as the environment. As the economy of the organization grows, so does the competition for scares resources increase? To curb resource constraints, it is fundamental for an organization to use materials more productively whistle, generating minimal impact. Hence recycling is a process by which an organization can convert waste material into valuable raw materials, thereby maintaining a competitive advantage ("Economy-wide Prospects for Material Recovery and Waste Recycling” 2018). Recycling conserves raw materials, strengthens our efficiency, and creates businesses. Usage is an important part of sustainable materials Management (SMM), the approach that emphasizes the creative and sustainable usage of materials across their whole life cycle while minimizing their environmental impacts. With the robust history of environmental stewardship, the United States tool gives substantial investments to efficiently utilize, reuse, or recycle materials across its processes and reduces its possible environmental effect by sourcing materials responsibly, also as appropriately managing material management and disposal. Each major industry place in the globe operates a reliable recycling system for business and nonindustrial material, for instance, recycling food used in the manufacturing process by feeding utility plant cooling towers. Recycling of materials has a myriad of advantages to an organization. Most organizations hardly focus on how much waste they generate. Consequently, these organizations’ waste management programs only pay attention to disposal rather than recycling (Milbrandt et al. 2018). However, pro-actively integrating recycling in an organization’s waste management accrues numerous advantages. The most pronounced advantage of recycling is saving on money since resources are conserved disposal cost are tremendously reduced. Another advantage of recycling is that it enhances sustainability, thus boosting the organization's image, which attracts clients and investors. Furthermore, recycling reduces greenhouse emissions, and individual states offer significant tax-cuts to organizations that adopt effective recycling strategies (Abdel-Shafy& Mansour, 2018). Hazardous Waste usage is not just good for the environment, although it may help the organization’s foundation line. Recycling hazardous material will boost industry efficiency and reduce costs related to buying raw Waste as well as Waste organization. By reusing hazardous materials, the business can be capable of removing this production of the hazardous material as well as avoiding RCRA regulatory requirements altogether. The first strategy ...

1. RECYCLING 1
RECYCLING 5
Recycling
Latoya Jones
University Maryland Global Campus
2/1/2020
Recycling
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report
in 2016, highlighting the significance of recycling and reusing
materials. How materials are used in an organization is crucial
in ensuring a sustainable economy as well as the environment.
As the economy of the organization grows, so does the
competition for scares resources increase? To curb resource
constraints, it is fundamental for an organization to use
materials more productively whistle, generating minimal
impact. Hence recycling is a process by which an organization

2. can convert waste material into valuable raw materials, thereby
maintaining a competitive advantage ("Economy-wide Prospects
for Material Recovery and Waste Recycling” 2018).
Recycling conserves raw materials, strengthens our efficiency,
and creates businesses. Usage is an important part of
sustainable materials Management (SMM), the approach that
emphasizes the creative and sustainable usage of materials
across their whole life cycle while minimizing their
environmental impacts. With the robust history of
environmental stewardship, the United States tool gives
substantial investments to efficiently utilize, reuse, or recycle
materials across its processes and reduces its possible
environmental effect by sourcing materials responsibly, also as
appropriately managing material management and disposal.
Each major industry place in the globe operates a reliable
recycling system for business and nonindustrial material, for
instance, recycling food used in the manufacturing process by
feeding utility plant cooling towers.
Recycling of materials has a myriad of advantages to an
organization.
Most organizations hardly focus on how much waste they
generate. Consequently, these organizations’ waste management
programs only pay attention to disposal rather than recycling
(Milbrandt et al. 2018). However, pro-actively integrating
recycling in an organization’s waste management accrues
numerous advantages. The most pronounced advantage of
recycling is saving on money since resources are conserved
disposal cost are tremendously reduced. Another advantage of
recycling is that it enhances sustainability, thus boosting the
organization's image, which attracts clients and investors.
Furthermore, recycling reduces greenhouse emissions, and
individual states offer significant tax-cuts to organizations that
adopt effective recycling strategies (Abdel-Shafy& Mansour,
2018).
Hazardous Waste usage is not just good for the environment,
although it may help the organization’s foundation line.

3. Recycling hazardous material will boost industry efficiency and
reduce costs related to buying raw Waste as well as Waste
organization. By reusing hazardous materials, the business can
be capable of removing this production of the hazardous
material as well as avoiding RCRA regulatory requirements
altogether.
The first strategy for establishing or improving recycling within
an organization is tracking waste. An organization cannot
manage waste without first measuring it. Tracking the amount
of waste generated in the organization will provide a basis for
establishing the appropriate recycling techniques for the
organizations. Several tracking tools are available online for
tracking waste in an organization. Examples of such tools
include WasteWise, Portfolio Manager, and Energy Star
Portfolio, among many other tools. For instance, the Energy
Star Portfolio Manager is a free online tracking tool created by
EPA to monitor and maintain records of greenhouse emissions,
water, and energy consumption (EnergyStar, 2020).
Energy Star if preferred for its simplicity since it only requires
basic information such as energy bills to estimate and manage
resources in an organization. Tracking the quantity of the
recyclables and the wastes hauled from the business gives you
an understanding of how the waste organization system is
performing information on the quantity of the material created
as well as the recycling rate. Nevertheless, to gain insights on
how to change, the waste assessment is important. The waste
assessment can supply you with valuable information to identify
opportunities for waste reduction. Take the waste assessment
results to change waste reduction activities. For instance, you
might see there is a higher proportion of pollution in the
recycling water, suggesting the need for improved
communication and training about what should get in the
recycling bin. Or the results might highlight that participants
are holding out a huge proportion of recyclables in the garbage.
Managing recycling
The important component in occupational healthcare is well-

4. structured work by different stakeholders. This business with
stakeholders begins with stakeholder examination. It aims
towards assessing in addition to understand stakeholders on the
position of the organization. The beginning is to recognize the
important stakeholders of occupational healthcare within the
organization. These stakeholders may be classified as inner,
intermediate as well as outside stakeholders. The majority of
significant internal stakeholders are those various employees
running in the organization; different internal stakeholders are
individual employees and several directors (senior managers,
line managers, HR managers) of an organization. Interface
stakeholders allow professional welfare service
However, in an event, there is no green team in the
organization; a new team will be mandated to plan design and
implement a suitable recycling strategy for the organization.
The team should comprise of members from various disciplines
including management and suggestions from every employee.
After the team is set up, their first agenda should be defining
recycling goals. Measurable goals provide a benchmark for
tracking progress and expanding recycling projects within the
organization (Conke, 2018).
Fundamental Recycling program
Another fundamental stage in recycling is the assessment of the
recycling program. The tracking tool, such as Energy Star,
elucidates the recycling rate and progress. Assessment of
recycling data illuminates on the available recycling
opportunities that the organization can venture into. One of the
information generated from an audit is the quantity and
composition of the material in the waste stream (EPA, 2018).
The results from the waste audit assists in determining the
appropriate strategies of recycling efficiently. For instance, a
contaminated recycling stream elicits the need for proper
education and communication on the contents of specific
recycling bins. Elsewhere, the results could suggest that a
particular department are disposing of recyclables
inappropriately. From the results of such assessments

5. brainstorming sessions can be held to evaluate feasible options
that are in line with the organization’s goals.
Conclusion
In conclusion, recycling is a fairly simple strategy for waste
management in organizations. Its advantages include saving
money and resources and curbing greenhouse emissions. The
process involves tracking, setting up a team and goals, and
finally assessing the feasibility of the recycling program.
Recycling strategies are fundamental to establishing a
sustainable organization. By reusing, recycling, and reducing as
well as waste, also you will reduce the amount of material that
is send into the landfills, protect these declining resources,
decrease emissions, pollution also contamination, set aside
money via selling salvage recourses also eventually donate to
the waste decrease objectives for the people. To accomplish
this, you need to shift the perspective on how to act waste
managing also why it is very significant to the new day and age.
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