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Hold an Eco Event for a tangible demonstration of your CSR

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Sims Recycling Solutions’ eco propositions provide an opportunity for your staff, suppliers and customers to recycle their redundant e-waste. This can be either a planned event or on an ongoing basis and is a very tangible and practical demonstration of your organisation’s corporate social responsibility.

Recycling can benefit your company as well as the environment

It can be a challenge for businesses and organisations to measure the effect of their CSR programme. Eco days can provide a very high profile demonstration of your green credentials, engaging your staff, suppliers, customers and local media.

Recycling of electronic waste such as computers, phones, hair dryers and entertainment systems prevents harmful substances such as lead and cadmium from entering the environment. Use of commodities recycled from waste electrical equipment, such as ferrous metals in manufacturing results in much lower energy and water use than extracting and processing virgin materials such as iron ore.

What is an Eco Day?

An Eco Day is a day or period of a few days when staff and other stakeholders can bring in their old small domestic electrical appliances for recycling. A typical event might incorporate:

  • Pre-event publicity amongst target audiences
  • Sims Recycling Solutions' practical support in administrating and setting up events
  • Provision of suitable containers and post event transportation
  • Segregation of e-waste types followed up with detailed client reporting
  • A factual report on the environmental benefits of the event

We have run many of these events in the UK over a number of years with global blue chip corporations, local councils and a range of government and commercial organisations and have witnessed the benefits such events can bring to each.

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Ongoing recycling - why not keep an Eco Box onsite?

A mobile phone - a typical small domestic appliance that can be recycled

An Eco Box for electrical and electronic equipment waste on your organisation's premises can be a constant reminder of your commitment to recycling

As a constant visual reminder of your commitment to recycling and the environment, why not host an Eco box alongside your paper recycling centre?

The boxes are robust units providing safe storage of remote controls, MP3 players and other small domestic e-waste items until full, at which point a collection can be arranged with Sims Recycling Solutions.

Reassurances

If your staff or other stakeholders have concerns about what happens to their waste if they take part in a Sims Recycling Solutions led eco proposition, we can provide reassurance:

  • All e-waste recovered by Sims is recycled at one of our European recycling centres. Each operates to environmentally responsible processes that meet (and often exceed) legislative requirements.
  • We guarantee data security – all data containing  products are shredded into tiny fragments – no-one will be able to get hold of private electronic data held on e-waste such as mobile phones, PDAs and satellite navigation systems.

Email us or call 0845 050 8470 to discuss holding an Eco Event, or to arrange delivery of an Eco Box for your premises.