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Recycling can reduce waste disposal costs, enhance businesses’ reputation and benefit the community and environment. These fact sheets provide advice on how small and medium-sized businesses can avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle different materials.

Using recovered concrete, brick and asphalt materials for the construction of pavements, earthworks and drainage has several advantages, including potential cost savings and conserving natural resources.

While large quantities of glass are recovered for recycling, the collection and sorting process generates crushed grass (glass fines) unsuitable for re-manufacture into glass containers.

The recycling rate for expanded polystyrene (EPS) is growing due to major investment in recycling infrastructure coupled with a boost in industry awareness and knowledge.

Planet Ark, in partnership with the EPA, produced a Business Recycling directory, an online directory and associated hotline that make recycling easier for small to medium-sized businesses.

The EPA has provided these waste and recycling resources for promoting recycling facilities at events, workplaces and home. Download and use these graphics and signs, copyright free, for any reasonable purpose.