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Recycling At Your Business (105k pdf)
"Waste is a symptom of business inefficiency"
-Ways to be a more efficient business:
- Reduce the amount of material required in the production of your goods and services.
- Reduce the amount of energy required in the production and delivery of your goods and services.
- Reduce toxic emissions.
- Design your products to be recyclable.
- Maximize the use of renewable resources in the production and delivery of your products and services.
- Design products that are durable and easier to repair.
- Design products that serve multiple purposes.
Step One - Reduce
- Minimize consumption of materials by controlling materials.
Step Two - Plan a Recycling Program
- Organize a Recycling Committee
- Learn about the Recycling market
- Anticipate and meet recycling needs in employment agreements and contracts.
- Use an accounting system that captures savings from reduced waste disposal costs to help fund recycling efforts.
- Education and Training
- Set clear objectives and goals of the recycling program
Step Three - Assessing Types & Quantities
- The quantity of items being recycled at your facility will depend on a number of factors.
Step Four - Analysis Cost and Benefit
Step Five - Identify Recycling Markets
Step Six - Educating and Training Staff
Salt Lake Valley Recycling Resource List
Call for recycling services and drop-off programs
Salt Lake City Businesses – 535-6999
Weyerhaeuser
2590 West 1500 South
– Contact: Chris Bell at 973-2082 for more information.
For businesses only, pick up is available
(No residential or apartment complex pick-up)
List of items to be recycled:
- Office paper
- Aluminum cans
- Corrugated cardboard
- White ledger paper
- Computer paper
- Newspaper
- Magazines
Green Fiber
3061 South 3600 West
– Contact: Burt at 910-2838 for more information.
List of items to be recycled:
- Newspaper
- Phone books
- Cardboard
- Magazines
- All paper products
Waste Management
8652 South 4000 West
- Contact Customer Service at 280-8200 for more information.
List of items to be recycled:
Plastics: #1 and #2 containers (soda and water bottles, milk and water jugs); Paper: corrugated cardboard, newspaper, office paper, phone books, shredded paper (bagged up), brochures, magazines; Metals: aluminum cans, plates and pans, steel and tin cans, small appliances, cookware and utensils, scrap copper, brass and aluminum.
Electronic Recycling-
The locations and hours of operation are as follows:
West Haven: 2433 S. 2050 W., West Haven, UT
Hours of operation: M - F - 9am - 3:30 pm
Phone: 801-731-5542
Orem: 1177 S. 1580 W., Orem, UT
Hours of operation: M - F - 9am - 3:30 pm
Phone: 801-226-6215
West Jordan: 8652 S. 4000 W., West Jordan, UT
Hours or operation: M-F - 8am - 4pm and Sat 8am - 3pm
Phone: 801-282-8271
Cost for NON Sony items are:
$5.00 - small Appliances, cell phones, keyboards
$10.00 - small TV's and monitors less than 22", DVD/VCR players, desk
printers/scanners, computer towers, laptops
$15.00 - large appliances, monitors and TV's larger than $22".
We cannot accept any wood consoles or cabinets and the total weight of any item must be less than 50 lbs. to be accepted.
Checks or credit cards only will be accepted at the sites.
Allied Waste (formerly BFI)
675 South Gladiola Drive
– Contact: Jerry Reed 972-4234
List of items to be recycled:
- Newspapers
- Corrugated cardboard
Paper and Document Destruction Recycling Services
Certified Shred– 972-4748
Shred it– 886-0622
Shred Pro– 977-0922
Rocky Mountain Recycling
2950 West 900 South
–Call 972-0220
Drop-off Location - 3110 South 900 West
Businesses need to set up an account (for pick-up service) and acquire recyclable material in tons. No services to individual residential homes.
List of items to be recycled:
- Newspaper
- Metal - Aluminum cans, Aluminum, Brass and Copper
- Plastic # 1, 2
- Corrugated cardboard
- White ledger paper
- Computer paper
Glass Recycle Group Inc.
–Contact: Mr. Leonard 521-9287 Cell: 520-9768
List of items to be recycled:
Guaranteed Recycling Xperts (GRX)
Freeport Center Building E-16
Clearfield, UT 84106
Contact number is 801-386-2533
List of items to be recycled:
- Any type of Electronic Equipment - computers, televisions, toasters, radios, monitors, central processing units (CPU).
SFI Computers Inc.
- Contact Ryan at 435-462-1965
List of items to be recycled:
- Computers (Large amounts only)
Lucency Corp.
1532 South Industrial Road (1900 West)
- Call 801-364-4733
List of items to be recycled:
Stone Castle Recycling
–Contact: Tony 801-731-9444 or 801-309-7380
List of items to be recycled:
Reusable Computers from businesses only, call "Computer for Kids".
–Contact number is 569-9577.
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