Eco days and Eco boxes
Enhance your CSR programme with an Eco Day or Eco Box from Sims Recycling Solutions.
Measuring the results and benefits of engaging a target CSR audience is often difficult. Sims Recycling Solutions' Eco days and Eco boxes offer benefits which can differentiate your cultural drivers through direct positive action. It is possible to influence target communities and demonstrate commitment to the environment by organising the collection of redundant electrical and electronic equipment.
Using recycled products such as metals instead of virgin materials during manufacturing, dramatically reduces pollution and carbon emissions, reduces energy and water consumption, and frees up much needed space for necessary landfill. By organising the recycling of e-waste, your company is actively contributing to these benefits.
As Sims Recycling Solutions European centres process all of their e-recycling in Europe, you can have confidence that hazardous materials from e-waste collected as part of an Eco Proposition activity will not end up in developing countries.
Many non European countries lack the high standards of environmental and employment practice evidenced in Europe. This can result in e-waste processing environments that expose individuals to hazardous substances or result in harmful materials entering local environments. Not all European recyclers can guarantee European only processing of hazardous materials found in waste electrical appliances.
Eco Days take the form of an amnesty day where your target audience, such as employees, suppliers or the local community are encouraged to bring in their surplus electronic equipment from their business or home for re-use or recycling.
A typical event might include:
- Pre-event support for publicity amongst staff, local businesses and community
- Sims Recycling Solutions support in creating a mutually agreed, detailed, operational plan for logistics and collection on the client’s site
- Provision of relevant containers and storage units for the safe collection and transport of equipment
- Sims Recycling Solutions staff manage the segregation of material on the client’s site
- Detailed report by weight and waste stream
- Factual conclusive report on environmental benefits
The benefits include improved staff and supplier relations, contribution to Corporate Social Responsibility objectives and positive PR opportunities.
Eco Boxes can be used as a standalone project or in conjunction with an Eco Day. The aim is to provide a physical presence to encourage the recycling of small electronic appliances and mobile phones on your site on an ongoing basis.
Eco Boxes can be positioned anywhere within your premises. These offer a visual reminder to employees and visitors to a site, of your commitment to the environment and sustaining resources. The boxes are robust units which provide safe storage until full, when Sims Recycling Solutions will arrange an appropriate collection.
To organise and Eco day or set up Eco boxes email or call us on +44(0) 800 008 7223.