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It’s official: Strategies for recycling your pens

I’ve just come across a brilliant article on the world.org website about how to recycle your personalised pens, or any plastic pens for that matter.  It’s proposes several ideas on how to reuse the various parts of a pen, for example suggesting you use the main tube to protect old-style mercury thermometers, or using the pen caps on pencils so they don’t pole holes in bags or leave graphite residues in mugs.

They even offer ways to combine reuse of different recycled products, such as using the main tube to protect clothes hanging on your clothes hanger, homemade with their instructions using recycled materials!

Good work !

Pressure on Manufacturers to make Recycled Personalised Pens

BrandRepublic recently published an article discussing the increasing pressure on manufacturers of personalised pen to improve the extent to which their personlised pens are environmentally-friendly. It seems that companies increasingly have environmental targets to hit, and that corporate responsibility is increasingly a priority.

As such, manufacturers of pens are following an interesting range of strategies to make their pens more green. The article notes the use of recycled materials and of renewable resources such as corn starch and recycled paper pens, the recycling of materials wasted in the manufacturing process, the design of refillable pens and use of vegetable inks, and finally the application of the same sorts of strategies to the pens’ packaging. The article also mentions the use by Senator of energy-efficient manufacturing machinery and processes.

What the article neglects to discuss is the extent to which manufacturers of pens are communicating with their customers about how to effectively recycle the products when they reach the end of their useful lifespan. You might like to read this article about how to recycle pens after use.

DIY Notebooks: Recycling Copy Paper

Most businesses throw away vast amounts of paper that is generally even less than half-used. This video shows how you can recycle this paper using common office materials into very professional looking recycled paper notebooks.

How to make a recycled notebook (Video)

Given that you can cut the notebooks to any size, you’re likely to cut off any usage of the paper you’re recycling anyway, leaving pristine sheets inside your recycled notebook. Further, it looks like a snap to do, so won’t take substantial time from your day. Now you just need some recycled paper pens to go with them!

Business Recycling Resources

I’m going to compile here a small list of resources about introducing recycling and generally environmentally-friendly practices into your business that will, over time, grow into a valuable resource.

• How to go green at work – Planet Green, Discovery
• Business Management of Econvironmentally-Friendly Practices – The Green Office Guide
• 8 Tips for Recycing in Business – Earth 911
• The 10-Minute Green Business Audit – Friends of the Earth Scotland

Recycling in Glasgow

One way of introducing recycling into your business is to research where you recycle what local to your business.

Dear Green Place is a volunteer-driven web resource about recycling and reuse in and around Glasgow, and allows you to search for recycling opportunities close to the postcode of your business. You can also search for where to recycle a certain product near to a certain location. Thus for example, if you wanted to recycle your printer’s ink cartridges, you could search for where in the North-West of Glasgow you could do this.

The Business of Recycling

This is a new blog about the business of recycling – that is, recycling in business. Our aims is to raise awareness about the many opportunities for recycling in a business setting and the consequent benefits to your business of recycling.

So let’s kick things off with a basic introduction to what exactly recycling is (from wikipedia). This article describes recycling as processing of used materials into new products, so as to prevent waste, reduce the use of energy and materials, and to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases. Materials commonly used in the business environment that can be recycled include glass, paper, metal, textiles, electronics and plastics. The article goes on to provide further background into recycling, its viability, and how it is acheived.