Green

Commercial trash can in a park over-filled with litter which just encourages more trash to be thrown around it

If you think your facility is 100% litter-free with plenty of commercial trash cans in place, you might be in for a surprise

Whether you run a restaurant, store, shopping mall, outdoor park, or any other facility, you are likely no stranger to the problem of littering. Even if your litter is kept to a minimum, there will still be guests who scatter their trash. They may be lazy, busy, or just inattentive. Guests will litter for a variety of reasons, but the key is how facility and property managers handle it.

There are plenty of steps you can take to reduce or manage litter at your facility—here are 10 to get you started. You may no

Business man recycling paper and tossing it into a blue recycle bin. More of this activity is encouraged as part of America Recycles Day

Tues., Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day and while vast improvements have been made in how households recycle, there is still much to be done in the workplace and at facilities. But the process can be as easy as adding a few recycling receptacles and then getting buy-in from people in your

 

Trash collectors face more mountains of garbage than eve

Cities can work on all types of new initiatives - sustainability, new museums, bike paths but there's one recurring problem that keeps popping its head up in new and ugly ways and that's trash receptacles.

Here's a new one for you. In Seattle, people complained that commuters were

Recycled Plastics Facts and Figure

Recycled Plastics Infographi

Note: The following infographic is brought to you by The Park and Facilities Catalog.

From Earth Day through May, The Park and Facilities Catalog is donating a portion of ALL sales of recycled park benches, recycled picnic tables and

These plastic bottles don't need to be here - they can become recycled plastic picnic tables and any number of products

Happy Earth Day fellow Earthlings! How will you honor the Earth this year? Recycling, cleaning up litter or writing to your congressmen are all a good start. But there's an essential part of going green that many people overlook: supporting recycling efforts by buying recycled products that range from recycled plastic picnic tables to paper for your copy machine.

The key to recycling is the reuse of our natural resources. That process starts with gathering recyclable materials. Offices and homes across America take the extra effort to have special recycling bins for paper, plastic, aluminum, glass, and other materials. They