Green Your Facility Through Recycling One of the easiest ways to start “greening” your facility is through recycling. Think of how much waste could be recycled that is currently going straight in the trash, such as office paper, soda cans and water bottles, etc. Your cleaning contractor is an obvious place to start the recycling discussion. After all, they take out the trash every night, and can probably guesstimate how much waste is truly recyclable in your facility. Have them help you conduct an on-site evaluation of your waste to determine how and what you can reduce, reuse or recycle. Also consider the following: Centralizing trash and recycling pick-up Providing not only departmental recycling containers, but also receptacles for all work spaces Asking local recycling resources in your area to determine appropriate disposal of hard-to-recycle items