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We painted the inside of our Oregon office with Recycled paint produced by Metro. By using and supporting Metro’s efforts to recycle leftover paint, we are helping organizations around the world save more than 64 million gallons from going to the landfill.

Guayakí recycles all office and scrap paper, cardboard, cans, bottles, and plastic in the blue bin. We salvage and recycle any metal or wood waste; as well as obsolete or unusable electronic and computer components to prevent adding heavy metals to landfills. In our office, we “recycle, reduce, and re-use” as a daily practice. Real…

Recycling takes consumer materials — mostly plastic, paper, metal and glass — and breaks them down so their base materials can be remade into a new consumer product, often of lesser quality. When you upcycle an item, you aren’t breaking down the materials. You may be refashioning it — like cutting a t-shirt into strips…

Itaipu develops the largest reforestation program ever conducted by a hydroelectric power plant in the world. Since 1979, it has helped plant over 44 million seedlings, equivalent to 100 thousand hectares or 60% of the Iguazu National Park area. Today, an area of less than 2% of the reservoir protection strip awaits reforestation. Of the…

The rainforest is one of the most precious gifts on our planet, however, how many organizations work with this valuable resource, instead of against it? Guayaki Yerba Mate, a rainforest grown, certified organic, fair trade yerba mate is different from any other drink on the market. It has the caffeine from coffee, theophylline from tea,…

Imagine that your organization set a bold goal of positively influencing 1 billion lives by 2050. What type of spillover would this have on the way your organization operated internally every day? Additionally, how would this alter the way your company treated its stakeholders? Thanks to the game-changing work of Mindvalley, a leading digital publisher…

Relan, who began in 1995 as a boutique lifestyle company that repurposed banners into fashionable products, has transformed into a world-class company whose mission is to empower individuals to make conscious purchasing decision for sustainable products. Organizations are learning that customers and employees want the organization’s they buy from and work at to be environmentally…

Itaipu is a company that cares about its employees’ personal fulfillment. It constantly seeks to provide ways that improve employee quality of life. They have a robust Caring for Employees Program that includes: a. Reviving One successful initiative is the Reviving program that has promoted health, sports and citizen participation actions since 1994. The program…

When it comes to inspiring action, we like to take a page out of Isaac Newton’s playbook. Sure, Recyclebank wasn’t around when he wrote that “an object at rest tends to remain at rest unless acted upon by an outside force,” but we’d like to think that we’re living, breathing proof of that First Law…

The SPLASH team (Society of Platonic Love, Appreciation, Smiles and Happiness) surprises everyone with special treatments such as a French picnic with cheese and wine, a breakfast spread and a pop-up chocolate bar or juice bar. Nobody knows who’s on the SPLASH team. It’s truly a secret society.