Marketing and Recycling
Imagine you own a store that sells consumer electronics. If you do, that shouldn’t be hard. Why would you want to go to the bother of offering battery recycling to your customers?
Well, for starters, it won’t cost you anything, and the hassle will be minimal. When Oregon instituted the nation’s first bottle [...]
Recycling and the Shipping Industry
Shipping relies upon several different types of materials that may or may not be recyclable. For instance, the cardboard boxes that items are shipped in are highly recyclable, and the shipping industry actually saves money when cardboard resources are supported by recycled paper fiber.
On the other hand, the Styrofoam and plastic bags that are [...]
Ancient Recycling
It turns out that recycling isn’t new at all, even if it is new to us in its present incarnation. Whether done at home or as part of a larger, organized civic program, the far-reaching consequences of society overstepping its boundaries has always been of major importance. This is apparent when studying the [...]
Free Market Recycling
As was evidenced toward the end of 2008, free markets don’t always work s they’re supposed to without a bit if intervention. The same is true in the case of recycling. There would be no such thing as municipal recycling programs if it were not for public monies to help these industries get [...]
