Texans: Are you Ready for Texas Recycling Day?

Got plans for Sunday, November 15th? Join up with folks across Texas to participate in Texas Recycles Day. Texas Recycles Day is a statewide public awareness campaign that aims to educate Texans on the environmental and economic benefits of waste reduction and recycling. As a sustainability consulting firm located in Houston, Texas, we're excited to share the eco actions of our home state.

The mission of the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling (STAR) is to promote and enhance recycling and diversion activities in the State of Texas. As we explain in our eco friendly training, recycling can be an introduction to sustainability concepts in your life, leading to a more sustainable lifestyle. For businesses, a recycling program contributes to business sustainability programs. Why recycle? Following are some of the benefits shared in our eco friendly consulting:

Recycling benefits the air and water by creating a net reduction in ten major categories of air pollutants and eight major categories of water pollutants.
In the U.S., processing minerals contributes almost half of all reported toxic emissions from industry, sending 1.5 million tons of pollution into the air and water each year. Recycling can significantly reduce these emissions.
A national recycling rate of 30% reduces greenhouse gas emissions as much as removing nearly 25 million cars from the road.
Recycling creates 1.1 million U.S. jobs, $236 billion in gross annual sales and $37 billion in annual payrolls.
Thousands of U.S. companies have saved millions of dollars through their voluntary recycling programs. They wouldn't recycle if it didn't make economic sense.

If you are looking for recycling events to help spread recycling eco awareness, or curious to learn how to recycle questionable items, visit the website.

Our sustainability consulting approach emphasizes that changing habits is the key. Once you have raised your eco awareness in one area of a sustainable lifestyle, it's easy to find new ways of embracing eco awareness in other areas of your life. Recycling is a great place to start.