If you read earlier in the week, I wrote about August, the little known fact that August is otherwise known as “National Panini Month,” and the reality that green business opportunities can be seen everywhere when you take a second to look at all the food we eat, and all the waste created at restaurants.
Well, now it’s almost September and while it may not be as exciting as “National Panini Month” there are a lot of opportunities to look forward to – opportunities to be your own boss and work at home – all through the value of recycling.
Every time September Rolls around, it’s hard not to think about all the kids everywhere going to school. From kindergartners all the way up to college students – they’re all getting ready to head back. However, the one thing I can’t stop thinking about is how much trash they must create! Think about all that paper!
We wrote earlier in the month that recycling all the newspapers in the country could power 50 million homes for 20 years! Now imagine if the same was done for writing paper and computer paper thrown away every year in schools across the country.
Think about all of those schools, and then think about how many of them don’t recycle, or of the ones that do, how inefficient they are at it. Hauling all that paper to the dump is money spent, energy wasted, and money thrown away that could be saved instead.
Just like businesses, schools have budgets too – and they’re always looking to cut costs. If you can help a school save money – you could be saving someone’s job, or making sure certain programs have the funding they need to buy supplies. That’s how big of a difference recycling can make. It’s undeniable that waste has value, and all you have to do to earn more money with a green business opportunity is spread the knowledge.
