You may have recently read that Navstar introduced our Green IT program. We are very excited about this business line and the opportunity it provides for us to make a difference and help our community.
With that in mind we are happy to provide some green tips in our blog to help our local community.
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Did you know that most of us recycle less than we can?
In some communities we recycle up to 50% less than is possible. Your first explanation for this would be that a lot of us don’t care and are lazy. We dispute this claim.
In our experience, time and time again, we find that simply educating folks works. It works wonders.
To do our part we looked into our local counties/cities and their recycling programs. We found many helpful pages provided below. Each link takes you to an information page about recycling for that community.
A tip for these pages is to check back regularly. Most municipalities add to the list every year; I mean why not, the more they recycle the less it cost. That’s right, recyclable materials get sold as a commodity whereas they pay to landfill our trash.
Lastly, if you’ve got a little green in your heart we recommend creating a recyclables list. It helps you to memorize what can be recycled and you can post the list for your housemates to read.
- DC
- Arlington, VA (pdf)
- Fairfax, VA
- Montgomery, MD (pdf)
- Prince Georges, MD
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Steven Mandzik is our Director for Green IT and a member of the Enterprise 2.0 team. You can follow his tweets @robotchampion and tips for @acleanlife 
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I was very excited when I came home from the Defrag conference in Denver to see that Prince George’s County Recycling had dropped off my long awaited big blue bin. Its 2x the capacity of the 55 gallon drum I had bought (I had two of them), that I spray painted to be my recycling containers. Since following @acleanlife practices of green for the home, we have reduce our actual trash waste tremendously. What we can, we compost and most everything else is recyclable.
Since we have friend’s in Calvert County who are not as fortunate to have bins for their house, we are donating our old bins to them.