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Aluminum is infinitely recyclable, and the aluminum can is the only package that can be used, recycled, and back on store shelves in as few as 60 days. What’s more, there is no limit to the number of times a can may be recycled into a new can. Alcoa and the aluminum industry have a goal to increase can recycling rates in America to 75% by 2015. To hit this goal, Alcoa and the Alcoa Foundation have distributed more than 75,000 recycling bins, launched our Make an Impact calculator to help families live more sustainably, created the Aluminate™ recycling app and, in the last five years, invested nearly $3.5 million in community recycling programs across the country! If every American recycled just one more can per week, we would reach our goal! Join us in this important effort, download the app, and recycle!
Waste Management, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management services in North America. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides collection, transfer, recycling and resource recovery, and disposal services. It is also a leading developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. The company’s customers include residential, commercial, industrial, municipal and higher education customers throughout North America. To learn more information about Waste Management visit www.wm.com or www.thinkgreen.com.
SCA is a global hygiene and paper company with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, that develops and produces personal-care products, tissue, packaging solutions, publication papers and solid-wood products. Sales in 2010 were $15 billion. SCA conducts sales in some 100 countries and has approximately 45,000 employees.
SCA‘s North American Tissue Division, headquartered in Philadelphia, offers a complete range of Tork brand products and services. Through customer understanding and particular expertise in hygiene and sustainability, Tork has become a market leader in many segments, such as away-from-home washrooms, healthcare, food service and industry. To make its environmentally-friendly products, the company recycles over 750,000 tons of paper a year, over half post-consumer. Solutions include napkins, toweling, tissue, specialty wipers, soap and dispenser systems—like Xpressnap and Elevation—featuring innovative design and functionality for hygiene and efficiency. The company has manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Alabama, New York and Wisconsin, and employs more than 2,000 in the United States and Canada. Learn more: www.torkusa.com.
Coca-Cola is dedicated to increasing recycling as part of our Live Positively commitment to make a positive difference in the world. Through redesigning the way we work and live, we consider sustainability as part of everything we do. As we act with an eye toward future generations, we will focus on driving business growth and creating a more sustainable world.
The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands. Through the world's largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy our beverages at a rate of 1.7 billion servings a day. With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, our Company is focused on initiatives that reduce our environmental footprint, support active, healthy living, create a safe, inclusive work environment for our associates, and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. Together with our bottling partners, we rank among the world’s top 10 private employers with more than 700,000 system employees. For more information, please visit www.thecoca-colacompany.com or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/CocaColaCo.
Keep America Beautiful is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to engage individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments. KAB pursues this mission by focusing on three areas:
- Waste Reduction and Recycling: Reducing the impact of solid waste in our communities through integrated programs including responsible consumerism, source reduction and reuse, recycling and education about landfills, composting and waste-to-energy.
- Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the causes, and reducing it by organizing cleanups, and promoting proper handling of discarded waste in our communities.
- Beautification: Improving the visual aspects of our communities through programs that beautify and naturally clean our environment including community gardens, restoring vacant lots, highway and shoreline beautification, urban forests, native and wildflower plantings, and graffiti prevention and abatement.
Through a grassroots network of over 600 local affiliates and public / private partnerships, KAB strives to improve communities by providing educational resources, and encouraging individual responsibility and volunteer action. For more information about Keep America Beautiful, visit: http://www.kab.org.
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The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is the national trade association of the forest products industry, representing pulp, paper, packaging and wood products manufacturers, and forest landowners. Our companies make products essential for everyday life from renewable and recyclable resources that sustain the environment. In 2010, 63.5 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling. In keeping with the forest products industry’s legacy as a leader in sustainability, AF&PA has announced a new initiative called Better Practices, Better Planet 2020: Continuing AF&PA’s Commitment to Sustainability. This comprehensive set of quantifiable sustainability goals is the most extensive to date for a major U.S. manufacturing industry and includes a goal to increase paper recovery for recycling to exceed 70 percent by 2020. For educational resources and material, recycling data, community, workplace, and school recycling best practices, and a variety of other interactive features, visit paperrecycles.org.
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. HP began electronic recycling in 1987, and has recycled more than 2 billion pounds of electronics and HP supplies since then. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com; more information about HP reuse and recycling programs is available at www.hp.com/go/reuse-recycle.
