The case for recycling is strong. The bottom line is clear. Recycling requires a trivial amount of our time. Recycling saves money and reduces pollution. Recycling creates more jobs than landfilling or incineration. And a largely ignored but very important consideration, recycling reduces our need to dump our garbage in someone else’s backyard.
– David Morris of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance

When I first read this quote it made me think of how important recycling in our every day lives.  By recycling we are not only preserving the environment, saving energy, or reducing pollution.  But recycling is also largely overlooked in the sense that it creates 1.1 million jobs across the United States.

One of those opportunities could be for you, in the form of starting your own green business focused on making a difference with recycling. Yes, thanks to trash you can have the ability to be your own boss, create your own work schedule, and work from the comfort of your own home. All the while, you can make a residual income helping businesses of every scale save more by optimizing their waste streams so they waste less, recycling more, and spend less on unnecessary disposal.

As a result, your clients make more of an impact on the environment by reducing their impact, your community benefits, your landfill shrinks, and you earn part of what they save.

I understand that starting your own business that has a sole focus on trash does not sound like a successful business opportunity at first.  But with the right knowledge and training, starting your own green business gives you the unique (and recession proof!) to earn a very attractive residual income. In the past, independent business owners with similar businesses in the recycling industry have made up to six-figures! All by helping businesses save more by wasting less. Let’s face it, businesses are always looking for new ways to cut costs, and they would rather not do it by downsizing their work force or slowing production. By helping them minimize costs related to waste disposal you could be the solution to their problem!

So the next time you are taking out the trash, think about how you could be the owner of your own successful and green home based business!