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How to Perform a Facility Recycling Audit

This ebook takes a close look at how recycling can benefit your business and why you should perform a recycling audit to […]

10 Actions Your Facility Can Take Toward a Blue Planet

Infographic with 10 simple tips on how to improve a facility’s sustainability and recycling efforts. Includes links to additional resources where facility […]

The Building System Carbon Framework

This paper proposes a new framework which can be used as a common language for carbon emissions, by all actors of the […]

Healthy Options for Sustainable Facilities: Hand Dryers Versus Paper

After many years of air dryer systems without significant improvement of comfort and reduction of drying time, it was possible by a […]

Sustainability How-To Guide: Sustainable Landscaping

This guide reviews the design, construction and maintenance stages of landscaping, explaining how to incorporate sustainability at each phase, decrease maintenance costs […]

7 Steps to Develop an Effective Recycling Program

Today, many businesses are seeking to reduce and minimize the amount of waste going to landfills. When it comes to waste and […]

Handprints Over Footprints: Combining Social Impact with Environmental Stewardship to Create Net-Positive Enterprise

Objectives: • Define what a handprint is and why handprints are important • Learn how individuals and corporations can create handprints • […]

What Can Be Recycled: Acceptable & Unacceptable Materials

Recycle for a sustainable future. Know what to throw – paper, cardboard, metal, and hard plastics. Learn how to recycle electronics, batteries, […]

Sustainability How-to Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Waste Stream Management

This guide presents a multifaceted approach to waste reduction that entails both resource and waste stream management. Life cycle assessment is discussed along […]

The Lean, Green Workplace: Thinking Beyond Sustainability

Lean represents a new way of working and thinking, which will enhance efficiency, fuel collaboration, extend the building life cycle and protect […]