Business Recycling
GOING GREEN AT YOUR BUSINESS IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK
SWACO offers advice, programs, and more to help your company. When you recycle and reduce waste at your place of business you not only help the environment, you may boost your bottom line. Many times, less waste means less money your business has to spend. So let’s get started!

WASTE AUDITS
First step, what are you throwing away that really doesn’t need to go in the dumpster? There are some haulers that specialize in certain products when it comes to recycling and they may be able to give you a better overall deal based on their needs for things like cardboard or clean office paper. A good way to get some answers is to perform a waste audit on your business.

There are private companies that will do the job, and your trash hauler may offer this service as well, but SWACO offers a do-it-yourself waste audit swaco.org/WasteAudit.aspx. Print it out, and walk through your building. You might be surprised at what you’ll find.

OHIO MATERIALS EXCHANGE
We also would like to direct you to the Ohio Materials Exchange website. OMEX is like an online "swap shop." You have unused materials around your company and so do your counterparts. By listing those old shipping materials, overruns, and manufacturing by-products you may be able to empty your storerooms, and find a bargain on what you need. To try OMEX go to www.myomex.com

PACKAGING
Okay now that you’ve plucked the low hanging fruit; paper, cardboard, cans, bottles etc, let’s climb the tree a bit and go for the middle branches. When you receive your products, how are they packaged? Can you work with your suppliers to come up with reduced packaging?  Many companies have done just that. Less packaging brings less impact on the environment and it gives you more room for storage. It can also cut your shipping costs.  

SWACO BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Good learning should be shared, SWACO's Business Roundtable (BRT) can help you learn from fellow businesses.  The BRT meets four times a year and is hosted at a different BRT member site every meeting.  Representatives from small and large businesses, government organizations, and institutions get together to share lunch, hear the latest on SWACO, and most importantly share lessons learned. Success stories range from simple lessons on how to pick a recycler to the more advanced stuff like how to recycle specific items.  If you’d like more information on SWACO’s Business Roundtable, contact Kristi Higginbotham at 614-871-5100.
 

List of Recyclers in the Franklin County Area:

Ace Iron & Metal                              614-443-1403
   (aluminum, copper, brass, stainless, automobiles,
   precious metals)

Arca-Ohio, Inc.                                  614-777-5666
   (appliances, also with freon)

Bargain House Recycling                  614-279–6416
   (appliances, also with freon)

Buckeye Recycling                            614-235-4886
   (aluminum scrap and siding, catalytic converters,
   transmissions, nonferrous metals, copper, brass, steel,  
   radiators)

Central City Auto Parts                     614-276-9617
   (appliances and scrap metal)

Central Ohio Contractors                  614-801-0480
   (construction demolition materials)

CycleMet, Inc. West                          614-276-0202
   (steel, brass, copper, glass, plastic, lead, radiators, zinc,   
   siding, newspaper, corrugated cardboard)

Joyce Iron & Metal Co.                     614-299-4175
   (aluminum, copper, steel, brass, insulated wire,
   computer scrap)

Recycling Exchange North               614-471-5956
   (mixed office paper, IBM cards, copper, aluminum, brass,
   nonferrous metal, plastic, corrugated cardboard)

Royal Paper Stock Company, Inc.   614-861-7326
   (mixed office paper, magazines, phonebooks, and large
   quantities of newspaper)

Rumpke Recycling                           614-421-0032
   (mixed office paper, newspaper, phonebooks,
   magazines, aluminum, plastic, glass, corrugated
   cardboard)

SBC Recycling Corporation             740-893-3567
   (mixed office paper, newspaper, phonebooks,
   magazines, corrugated cardboard)

Smurfit Stone                                 614-445-8188
   (mixed office paper, newspaper, phonebooks, corrugated
   cardboard, scrap metal, aluminum)

Tire Shredding Facility                  614-871-8097
   (car and truck tires)

Universal Paper and Plastic, Inc.  614-774-3360
   (cardboard, mixed office paper, wooden pallets,
   some plastics.

Worly Recycling                             614-237-2330
   (aluminum, copper, steel, brass, siding, radiators, mixed
   office paper)

Association of Ohio Recyclers (AOR)
Ohio Material Exchange (OMEX)
www.myomex.com