Sarah Kite, recycling manager for the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation since 2007, manages the state’s recycling programs, as well as recycling operations at the 200-acre state Central Landfill in Johnston where the materials are processed.
The outdated cell phone or laptop you have hanging around the house could have a cash value. At the least, it should be recycled. A new company called Second Rotation can help in either case.
Being a certified “green” company can be a great marketing tool, but for many businesses the designation is an afterthought resulting from initiatives that save money.
Local law and accounting firms are slowly changing the mindsets of employees, colleagues and clients by instituting recycling and energy-reduction programs.
The tourism industry has jumped on the “green” bandwagon, moving to protect and enhance tourism destinations and to make lodgings and attractions more enticing to earth-loving travelers.
Go Green, young man. Nearly 160 years ago, Indiana journalist John B.L. Soule first pointed hardy citizens toward the vast Pacific with the enduring words “Go West, young man ….” Written in an earnest plea for expansion and a better way of life and later more famously usurped by Horace Greeley, the decree quickly became the soundtrack for the latter 19th century.
Every employee of Cox Communications in Rhode Island who arrived to work on a recent Monday morning found a green wastepaper basket parked under their desk.
