B-Green Recycling

Recyclable paper, cardboard, and bottles & cans currently take up more than 50% of our nation’s landfill space. The good news is that these wastes are some of the most valuable and readily recyclable materials in America’s waste stream. The paper and cardboard recycled today goes into thousands of products that we use every day from ceiling tiles and building insulation, to business cards and newspapers. Plastic, metal, and glass bottles & cans are recycled into thousands of products, many of which we use every day. Many environmental experts believe that recycling is the single most important environmental effort that businesses in the New York metro area can engage in. It reduces disposal costs and hauling requirements, reinforces a commitment to efficiency and smart business which is appreciated by customers and employees, and greatly diminishes pollution in the local environment. Of the efforts taken to help the environment, recycling is one that makes a difference you can see every day, on our roads and in the air.

It is time to ask yourself: Do you know if your business is recycling as much as you can? Do you know where your recyclable materials go, or how much you produce? Would you like to know more about how expanding recycling can help your business both environmentally and economically? Contact us, and our experienced team, will conduct a detailed analysis of your current recycling programs and present opportunities for improvement to those programs at no cost to you. With B-Green, your business may have the opportunity to participate in dollar-saving recycling programs never before available in your area.

Composting is the decomposition of plant remains and other once-living materials to make an earthy, dark, crumbly substance that is excellent for adding to houseplants or enriching garden soil. It is the way to recycle your yard and kitchen wastes, and is a critical step in reducing the volume of garbage needlessly sent to landfills for disposal. It's easy to learn how to compost.

There are a tremendous number of options for containing your compost. Some people choose to go binless, simply building a compost pile in a convenient spot on the ground. Others build bins from materials such as recycled pallets, or two-by-fours and plywood. And, of course, there are many commercial bins on the market.

Composting is not a new idea. In the natural world, composting is what happens as leaves pile up on the forest floor and begin to decay. Eventually, the rotting leaves are returned to the soil, where living roots can finish the recycling process by reclaiming the nutrients from the decomposed leaves. Composting may be at the root of agriculture as well. Some scientists have speculated that as early peoples dumped food wastes in piles near their camps, the wastes rotted and were terrific habitat for the seeds of any food plants that sprouted there. Perhaps people began to recognize that dump heaps were good places for food crops to grow, and began to put seeds there intentionally.

Today, the use of composting to turn organic wastes into a valuable resource is expanding rapidly in the United States and in other countries, as landfill space becomes scarce and expensive, and as people become more aware of the impacts they have on the environment. In ten years, composting will probably be as commonplace as recycling aluminum cans is today, both in the backyard and on an industrial scale. Many states in the USA have stated goals or legislative mandates to drastically reduce the volume of waste being sent to landfills. Utilizing yard and kitchen wastes (which make up about 30% of the waste stream in the USA is a big part of the plan to minimize waste overall.

You can contribute to the 'composting revolution' by composting your own yard and kitchen wastes at home. If you have a large yard, you might prefer the ease of composting in a three-bin system out by the back fence. Cities and towns can promote composting through home composting education efforts and the collection of yard wastes for large-scale composting. Whatever your style of composting, there's plenty of room to get involved!



B-Green makes the difference by transforming recycled PET beverage bottles to finished Food Grade Containers for you. This process is the very first of its kind in the U.S. to utilize 100% recycled bottles to make each recycled product.

We manufacture our products right on site at our Brooklyn recycling plant. Recycling post consumer PET in this agile way is extremely cost effective, with the savings passed on to you. Being green just makes 'cents'!