U.S. Bank expands recycling program for smaller work facilities

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U.S. Bank expands recycling program for smaller work facilities

 

By Greentech Lead Team: U.S. Bank announced that Eco2Go
Recycling Solutions will expand bank’s recycling program. U.S. Bank launched
the new Ohio business to solve the problems of developing a cost-effective
recycling program for smaller work facilities.

Eco2Go Recycling Solutions will provide an efficient way
to help U.S. Bank recycle cans and plastics from approximately 1,100 of its bank-owned
facilities. It is expected that more than 50,000 pounds of materials from the
bank’s smaller sites will now be recycled annually.

The bank, along with its waste management consultant
Consolidated Waste Management (CWM), determined that there wasn’t a good market
alternative to traditional recycling services. As a result, the idea for Eco2Go
was spawned and a new company formed.

“We had to think creatively to identify a recycling
service that met the needs of each of our bank-owned premises. Employing the
Eco2Go concept makes sense for many of our traditional branches and smaller
sites where we have fewer than 50 employees because it takes advantage of a
cost-effective distribution system that’s used only when needed,” said Lisa
O’Brien, senior vice president and director of environmental affairs at U.S.
Bank.

Eco2Go will make user-friendly containers that would not
only be able to collect employee’s recyclables, but also be durable enough to
ship to the nearest recycling center when they were full.

U.S. Bank will place environmentally friendly Eco2Go
portable recycling containers at its smaller sites to collect recyclable
materials, including those with plastic recycling symbols 1 through 7,
aluminum, tin and other metal cans, plastic grocery bags and plastic bottles
with lids. When the Eco2Go box is full, it will be picked up by UPS, which
already made regular delivery and pickups at U.S. Bank locations, then
delivered to a nearby recycling center.

“The Eco2Go concept eliminates the need for a waste
collection truck to make weekly or bi-weekly pickups, resulting in the
additional benefit of reducing carbon emissions and fixed monthly costs
associated with those services,” said Mark Wiseman, principal and vice
president of CWM.

The program was piloted in 60 U.S. Bank branches and most
boxes were returned within six to eight weeks.

U.S. Bancorp and East West Bancorp recently created a $47
million fund to finance renewable-energy projects that Borrego Solar Systems
Inc. will install in California and Massachusetts.

 

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