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How Businesses Can Promote Recycling with a Virtual Workforce

As COVID-19 spread around the world, many sustainability initiatives that were helping to improve the earth for the long-term were put on the back burner. Things like recycling and conservation took a backseat to disinfection and improving IAQ.

It made sense.

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But we are now eight months into the pandemic and in honor of America Recycles Day on November 15, sustainability initiatives should once again move to the forefront of business strategies and employees’ minds.

During these last eight months, a lot of consumption has moved from the workplace, where millions of people would spend eight hours or more a day, to the home.

Millions of employees are working full-time from a home office during COVID-19, and others are splitting their time between the office and home. Even employees that have to report to a facility for work are taking steps to self-quarantine during their off hours in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus.

The world has changed, but the importance of recycling has not.

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