Recycling is here to stay, and anyone even trying to suggest that recycling isn’t valuable would be incredibly wrong on a number of counts. Recycling is valuable in more ways than can even be described in one article. Even still, consider these facts:

•Hundreds of paper mills in the USA use at least a portion of recovered materials to manufacture new paper products.

•In America we use 4 million plastic bottles an hour and most of them are thrown away. Have you ever thought about how many plastic products there are?

•More than 1.5 million tons of construction materials are manufactured every year from paper products

•More than 200 paper mills produce paper products entirely from recycled materials

•More than half of office paper is recovered with recycling

•Recycling aluminum cans drastically decreases the loss of raw materials

•There is no limit to the number of times aluminum can be recycled

•The Aluminum Foundation reports that during a 12 week program, over 105 million beverage cans were recycled, earning over $2.3 million for charities.

With just a few of these facts in mind, it becomes extremely clear that the value of waste does not end at the trash can or the dumpster. Business waste such as paper, plastic, and metal all have value even after they appear to have served their purpose and they can contribute immensely when it comes to making more money through better business recycling.

Independent businessmen and women across the country have learned to look at waste differently, turn it into savings, and earn money in the process.

By simply changing their perspective on business waste, they have saved and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars by providing valuable waste consulting for businesses in a variety of industries.

In the end it really is only a matter of perspective, seeing waste within the context of a green business opportunity makes a difference in many ways. The value is there, so why not act on it and cash in?