Green Recycling Products Blog

Even though recycling efforts have improved, municipalities and parks still face mounds of jettisoned drink containers. City Managers across the country continue to promote and invest in recycling.  In New York City alone, in the recent past, almost 150,000 new recycling bins have incorporated as either permanent resources within New York’s public space or reused at city managed events.  But more needs to be done.
 
The Mayor of New York is engaged upon a campaign to double recycling in the city by 2017. It is estimated that only about 15% of New York’s total waste is being recycled. The New York Department of Sanitation says 182 tons of glass bottles and jars go into the trash every day.

According to the Container Recycling Institute, an anti-waste organization that tracks data on the topic, Americans used 38.6 billion glass beverage containers and 71.9 billion plastic beverage bottles in 2010.  The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only about 33% of glass bottles, and as few as 27% of plastic bottles, are recycled. City managers across the country want to do something in a big, visible way.  

Despite higher emphasis on recycling and more Americans taking part, recycling rates remain low, so aggressive city managers constantly search for fun and engaging ways to motivate change.  One of the most effective tools is the voice of local business owners who improved both their business reputation and brand via the use of custom labeled recycling bins and recycling containers.  American consumers remain loyal to environmentally friendly business.

For information regarding the use of custom recycling bins to promote your company’s brand or your cities “green image”, and to increase customer loyalty, contact the The Fibrex Group, America’s first choice for custom branded recycling equipment.

The Fibrex Group manufactures customized Recyling containers and bins tailored to the specific needs of your business.  These recycling collection tools are supremely functional while simultaneously communicating your business’ commitment to “going green”.

For indoor use, our highly popular “Mobius Recycling Stations” come with multi-color lids and in a wide variety of colors certain to blend perfectly within your business space.  They are perfect for inside public and commercial buildings such as offices, airports, malls, hotels and schools.

Want a fire-proof aluminum or steel to torecycle bin that is attractive and functional? Our RecyclePro recycle bins are ideal for every location. Every part of these recycling receptacles is constructed with recycled metals in the U.S.A.

Until April 30 take advantage of our “March Madness Logo Sale”. We are offering free customization on all of the Mobius and RecyclePro Recycling Bins and Waste Receptacles. Your organization’s logo and colors will shine bright with digitally printed logo decals.

Mobius and RecyclePro recycling bins are designed to function in the most demanding public spaces. Great for commercial LEED buildings, office complexes, convention centers, airports, schools & universities. 

Promote your green image, while collecting recyclables and diverting waste from landfills with Fibrex Recycling Containers. Our beautiful high-gloss gel coats, satin aluminum and satin brass finishes are built to last. Custom drop-in openings give you an opportunity to create and choose a style that you’re your businesses collection methods.

FREE PERSONALIZATION OF FIBREX RECYCLING CONTAINERS - Offer is valid for new quotes and orders only.  Recycling container product must be purchased to receive free personalization - expires April 30, 2012. Contact The Fibrex Group for further information.

Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Organizations, businesses and municipalities can do their part by instituting recycling programs and installing easy to use and locate recycling containers.

By installing recycling programs, organizations and communities help society be more conscientious. By making recycling easy, with easy to locate and use recycling containers, recycling becomes a habit that is easy to pass on to future generations.

The steps in the recycling process generate financial, environmental, and social returns, and many of the benefits have local as well as global effects.

The steps in the “recycling loop” entail collections of recyclable materials with recycling bins, processing those materials, manufacturing products such as picnic tables and swing sets from those recycled materials and then the buying of recycled products. This creates a circle or loop that ensures the overall success and value of recycling.

Purchasing recycled products completes the recycling loop. By “buying recycled,” governments, as well as businesses and individual consumers, each play an important role in making the recycling process a success.

Contact Fibrex Group for more information on recycling containers and recycled products.

All qualifying government entities can purchase Fibrex’s full line of Profile Used Oil Collection Containers, our ever-popular Recycling Container Boxes, and the newest line of RecyclePro Recycling Receptacles through our GSA Contract #GS-07F-0239M.

The Mobius 2 Recycling containers are attractive indoor recycling containers which combine high-end design at an affordable price. The innovative Mobius 2 Recycling Station comes standard with two compartments featuring molded drop-in openings for collecting bottles and cans, paper products and trash. Each compartment holds up to 25 gallons and is fitted with a rigid plastic liner. These indoor recycling stations are available in an unlimited combination of colors and finishes, and are perfect for even the most discriminating locations.

Profile Used Oil Collection Containers

The Profile Used Oil Collection Containers make it easy to collect used oil from the Do-It-Yourself oil changer. Conveniently located used oil drop-off sites equipped with attractive and user-friendly tanks are an essential element for any successful used oil program. The Profile Oil Container is specially designed to accept used oil from the public. This attractive unit is very user-friendly which improves program participation and aids in keeping the collection site clean.

Recycle Box Recycling Container

The Recycle Box is a low cost collection solution for all types of recyclables. It’s available in both 32 and 44 gallon capacity and can be easily customized to fit your specific industry needs. It’s designed to enhance any establishment and will help you meet your going green goals by increasing recycling rates at your facility.
 
Recycle Boxes are very economical yet sturdy recycling containers and flexible enough to be used indoors and out. We offer many standard graphics, as well as great custom designs for use at grocery stores, schools, offices, warehouses, malls, churches, golf courses, stadiums, hospitals, airports, zoos and many, many more.

RecyclePro Recycling Containers

Supplied with heavy gauge, seamless, hand-spun aluminum covers, the RecyclePro Recycling Receptacles are durable as well as attractive. There are a variety of openings available for each recycling hole on the lid, allowing the RecyclePro to conveniently sort the recyclables in a way that is best suited for your facility.

RecyclePro Recycling containers have custom color covers and bodies that are silk screened with professional, clear messages and logos that last indefinitely.

Custom messages and corporate/government logos are easily prepared to customize your RecyclePro Recycling Receptacles.

Please contact us at 1.800.346.4458 for a custom quote or catalog.

Bordered by the picturesque Florida Bay and the aquamarine waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Hilton Key Largo Resort hotel is a stunning choice among Key Largo hotels. The Hilton Key Largo Resort, nestled on 12.5 acres of lush hardwood forestry along the Gulf of Mexico and the southern boundaries of the Everglades National Park, is a beautiful facility in a beautiful environment.

It is challenging to not be awed by the natural beauty that surrounds this hotel. It is easy to fathom why, just recently, the Hilton Key Largo Resort purchased the Metro Collection Unit for recycling.  These designer recycling containers fit in perfectly with the hotel's décor and high class atmosphere.

The Metro Collection recycling containers' clean lines and quality construction merge to create a container that is as visually stunning as it is functional. Metro Collection Recycling containers complement any décor, traditional or contemporary.

• 100% Made in the USA with over 30% recycled materials
• Constructed of fire-safe steel
•  Elegant tapered body is finished in Hammered Copper
•  Easy to remove lids
• Rigid plastic liners with 18-gallon capacity
• Entire Collection also available in Stainless Steel with Black texture
• Lids and Tops with Black decals.
• Also available in Single and Double Stream units 

For more information on recycling containers that would complement the décor in your resort hotel, please contact the Fibrex Group.

Searching for that low-cost recycling solution for your hotel/resort property, office, dorm, lobby, lunchroom, school or home? The Fibrex line of Box style Recycle Bins are the perfect, low cost recycling containers for all types of recyclables in all types of locations. It is available in 32 or 44 gallon capacity and can be easily customized to fit your specific recycling needs. The Recycle Box is designed to enhance any establishment and will help you meet your “going green” goals by increasing recycling rates at your facility. These durable but lightweight recycling containers are made of a corrugated plastic material to make them sturdy and semi weather resistant.

This box style Recycle Bin is very economical, yet sturdy and flexible enough to be used at a wide variety of indoor and outdoor venues. Fibrex offers many standard graphics, as well as attractive custom designs for use at grocery stores, schools, offices, warehouses, hotel/resort properties, malls, churches, golf courses, stadiums, hospitals, airports, zoos/aquariums and many, many more.

The Box Recycle bin is designed to maximize strength with minimal use of materials. The boxes fold flat for easy storage and transportation, and can be assembled in minutes. At less than two pounds and collapsible, this recycling bin is easy to move to the places where it is most needed. All Recycle Boxes are 100% recyclable and made with a minimum 30% recycled content.

Contact Fibrex for a free quote or to have any questions answered about the Recycle Box or any of our recycling solutions. Free shipping on the Box Recycle Bin ends on August 31, 2011.

Camping is the number one outdoor vacation activity in America, according to the Travel Industry Association trade group. They also report that one-third of adults in the U.S. have gone on camping trips in the past five years. Camping continues to be a strong and viable vacation option even in this uncertain economy. Many retirees opt for camping in their golden years, rather than staying in their homes. Families are also going tent and RV camping more frequently these days.

Most of us take the time to recycle at home. But when you are visiting different campgrounds, it is not as easy to recycle when the option is not made available to you. Surprisingly, many campgrounds do not recycle.

If a campground doesn't provide recycling receptacles for their visitors, the limited space in an RV can fill quickly while the visitor stores recyclables to be offloaded once they've left the park. Campgrounds need to make recycling containers available to the growing number of campers.

Recycling opportunities for campers and picnickers exist at all five full-facility Broward County, Florida campgrounds.  Broward County has been utilizing the Profile 6 Recycling containers to make it more convenient for campers to maintain their recycling programs when out in the wilderness, thus reducing their carbon footprint while visiting the beauty of nature.

The Profile line of containers, manufactured by the Fibrex Group, are very attractive in appearance and easy to use. Made from quality fiberglass with a high gloss gelcoat finish, these containers need little maintenance and will perform beautifully year after year.

It seems logical that campgrounds would be one of the most obvious places to be green and close the loop.  If you would like more information on how you can implement a recycling program at your state park, campground or picnic area contact the Fibrex Group.

Ahhh, the beach:  sand, surf, sun, & seagulls. There's something about the calming sound of the waves and the relaxing feel of the sand between your toes.

However, coastal development, erosion, and water pollution are issues that go hand in hand with shoreline development. Increasing numbers of tourists visiting beaches every year take an environmental toll, putting coastal areas and the wildlife that inhabit them at risk. Careless visitors and an insufficient amount of trash and recycling containers are a danger to our beaches and boardwalks.

The City of Miami Beach, Florida understands both the importance of keeping their city clean and their tourists happy, as well as the environmental implications of bad trash collecting and recycling habits. The City is utilizing the Envirodesign Recycled Plastic Lumber Recycling Centers for their beachfront areas. These recycling centers are made from 95% post consumer content recycled plastic (milk jugs) and are available in 25, 32, or 55 gallon options. They are made in many sizes and colors and are designed especially for the collection of both waste and recyclables at non-residential locations.

The Envirodesign Recycling Receptacles best serves the needs of the Miami Beach community because their modular configuration offers the perfect option for public area recycling and waste collection centers.

When visiting your local beach this summer, make a difference. Recycling is one of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Leave those footprints on the sand only!

With the summer months come family vacations and road trips. How many of you have stopped at one of the numerous Welcome Centers or Rest Areas at the side of the road en-route to your destination? Keeping these respites attractive, landscaped and clean is imperative to the face of the city or state in which they are located. The Town of Nags Head's Welcome Center in North Carolina understands this and has incorporated the Profile 6 recycling container in their welcome center and various locations throughout the beach community.

The Profile line of recycling collection containers, manufactured by The Fibrex Group, are very attractive in appearance and easy to use. Made from quality fiberglass with a high gloss gelcoat finish, these containers need little maintenance and will perform beautifully year after year.

Rest stops are built to allow motorists to rest on long trips, eat, refuel, and get directions and brochures from the information booth. Most states across the country have rest stops within the first 10 miles of their state border for tourists to visit. The point is to allow the motorist a place to stop without putting them on unfamiliar roads.  Since there is a large amount of waste generated at welcome centers on the highway, recycling containers are a must.

Welcome Centers and Rest Areas set the tone and image of the state in which they are located. It is essential to make it convenient for visitors to continue their practice of recycling while on vacation, as well as maintaining the ecology of the locality.  For more information on Recycling containers for the welcome centers and rest areas in your state, contact the Fibrex Group today.

Resort communities are part of one of our nation’s most important and fastest growing industries. Travel and tourism accounts for a large percent of all international trade. Since 1950, total annual expenditure on tourism has risen from $2 billion to annual worldwide revenues of $476 billion. This amount exceeds the combined Gross National Product of the world’s 55 poorest countries.
Every community needs a recycling program in place. However, for those communities that rely on tourism as a mainstay for their local economy, it is even more important.

It is human nature to care for our own space and communities more than we care for other's. Therefore, it is very important for areas that rely on scenic views and beautiful vistas to provide easy recycling and waste disposal for their guests.

As visitors to new locations, we do not necessarily notice when a resort location is spotless and clean, but we do notice when it is dirty and littered with trash. When a community counts on tourism, especially if it is seasonal, it is imperative that that community is clean.

However, aside from the economic benefits to recycling: tourism revenue, job opportunities and utilization of resources; there are obviously other benefits as well. Mountains and oceans comprise the majority of vacation destinations and represent more than half of the the earth's fragile life sustaining ecosystems.  Ocean and mountain environments are sensitive and are essential for normalizing climate. Increased access to these areas means that tourism has become a source of environmental stress and often significant environmental degradation. The tourism industry is obligated to minimize environmental degradation. 

Cities such as North Myrtle Beach rise to the challenge.  Fibrex Group supplied the Profile 6 recycling container to North Myrtle Beach to minimize the negative environmental effect of their tourism industry. With this area of South Carolina being a resort and recreation area, and reliant on the economics of tourism, Myrtle Beach felt obligated to keep the area clean by having access to recycling containers for visitors.

By taking the time to recycle, you reduce the need for landfills and incineration while simultaneously helping to conserve national resources such as timber, water, and minerals, sustaining the environment for future generations.