Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful along with supporting partners like Keep America Beautiful have launched a new Recycling At Work website to reinforce its national Recycling at Work initiative.

Recycling at Work is designed to encourage businesses, organizations and institutions around the country to pledge to increase workplace recycling. The site features a host of tools and resources, including recycling bin discounts.

By taking the Recycling at Work pledge, entities can receive an exclusive 15 percent discount when ordering recycling bins from Recycle Away and Busch Systems, and can access valuable resources ranging from recycling best practices to employee engagement activities to customizable promotional materials.

Recycling at Work is a joint Clinton Global Initiative commitment between KAB and Alcoa Foundation, one of the funders of the program, to increase U.S. recycling rates.

Keep America Beautiful is soliciting businesses and other organizations to pledge to a 10 percent increase in the recycling of beverage containers, paper products, electronics and other commonly generated recyclable materials found in the workplace.  Counted among KAB’s nearly 150 pledge partners to date are Clorox, City of Missouri City and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, among others.

“In partnership with Keep America Beautiful, Alcoa Foundation is excited to sponsor Recycling at Work to help promote sustainable practices in the workplace,” said Tricia Napor, vice president, Alcoa Foundation. “Alcoa is committed to increasing U.S. recycling rates to 75 percent by 2015 and supporting workplace recycling helps advance this goal.”

 “Based on workplace waste audits we have conducted, we learned that up to 90 percent of the material being put in the trash is easily recyclable,” said Brad Molotsky, Recycling at Work advisory council member.  “By making some infrastructure improvements along with educating employees, we have achieved a recycling rate of over 70 percent for our office-generated waste.”  

“KAB’s Recycling at Work initiative, which provides tools and shares best practices, will provide much-needed support to office building owners, operators and tenants to increase recycling at work.” said Shannon Reiter, President of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. “For existing programs, Recycling at Work provides a unique opportunity to renew an organization’s commitment to recycling and provides valuable tools to augment what is already in place.”

Recycling At Work Webinar

Businesses interested in taking the Recycling at Work pledge are encouraged to attend a webinar on October 9. The session will offer ways to promote recycling in the workplace and to celebrate the pledge as part of America Recycles Day, which takes place on and around November 15.

America Recycles Day, an initiative of KAB, is the only day dedicated to a national celebration of recycling.

Industry leaders Microsoft, through its Greener IT Challenge and Alcoa Foundation are proud to make Recycling at Work possible.

Visit the Recycling at Work website to take the pledge or attend the upcoming webinar. 

10/7/2013