What are the main advantages of recycling?
What are the main advantages of recycling?
As a business, you have tons of considerations to make every day. Accounting, sales, advertising, HR. Recycling is probably one of the last things on your mind.
Why not make recycling one less thing to consider by using a professional shredding service? There are so many advantages of recycling. We run through a few in this latest blog.
Protecting our environment
The most obvious and main advantage of recycling is environmental. Did you know that around 80% of all paper is currently recycled in the UK? Recovery rates are higher in the EU. Paper is one of the easiest materials to recycle and can be repurposed into a number of useful products such as new paper, cardboard packaging and toilet tissue.
Reducing the consumption of energy
Reducing air, water – Manufacturing virgin paper uses more water than producing recycled paper. Sending your paper waste to a shredding company ensures that every scrap is shredded, baled and sent to a paper mill for repurposing into other paper products.
Reducing pollution and landfill waste
You can easily prevent computer hardware from polluting the environment. Simply wipe your hard drive, remove any batteries and all components can be collected, shredded and recycled by a shredding company. The components can then be repurposed to make new products. Precious metals within IT hardware may also be sorted and recycled.
Reduce carbon emissions
Our mobile shredding truck routes are planned meticulously to be carbon efficient and minimise unnecessary trips which contribute to unnecessary carbon emissions.
Increase business security
One of the main advantages of recycling paper via a shredding service is to keep your data secure. Shredding is the best way of protecting your records. Paper is shredded to 4mm particles, often on mobile shredding trucks. Shredding is not limited to paper either. Shredding companies can recycle your products, uniforms, hard drives and IT equipment, separating all components so they can be reused to make other products.
Enhance your corporate social responsibility
Handling business waste responsibly is a positive message to send to your customers and clients. It helps cement trust and contributes to building a reputation as a responsible business. It reveals commitment to the protection of the local environment and economy. Appoint a member of staff to oversee recycling throughout the company, heading up small alterations that can be made to become a more eco-conscious business. Simple measures such as shredding bins, posters reminding staff, reusable cutlery and ban on single use plastics are all simple measures that will deliver tangible results.
The Shredding Alliance are committed to promoting the advantages of recycling. If you require assistance with shredding and recycling your redundant materials, find out more here.