The Green Committee, which I founded and lead at the software company where I work, has been developing an initiative for zero waste. Last week I met with our building’s facilities manager to discuss the partnership the committee has forged with EcoMovement Consulting & Hauling. They are a local startup who will soon collect our recyclables and compost – a move that excites me to no end. Our company’s facility is the first large office building in coastal New Hampshire to pursue zero waste by “reducing and reusing, then composting and recycling what’s left.”
Our facilities manager told me that she just launched a single stream program with Waste Management at one of the other buildings her company manages. She said if all goes well, in a few months Waste Management will be contracted to pick up my company’s recycling as well. She was happy to tell me that EcoMovement could still collect our compost and went on to explain that for her it would be much easier to have one vendor provide hauling services to the several dozen properties she oversees.
I suddenly saw the position she was in and wondered what I would do. I had specifically sought alternatives to Waste Management when creating our zero waste program. If I was managing multiple locations, would I continue to follow my strong inclination to support local vendors or would I instead employ the national company that I had been using for years?
Source: Triple Pundit
By Matt Courtland