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Buying Other Recycled Products
Welcome to the Stanford Recycling Center's web page on purchasing recycled products at
Stanford! This page has information about why it is important to purchase recycled products,
myths about recycled products, and easy ways to find recycled products.
For information about buying recycled paper, please click here.
Buying Recycled...
- Saves Natural Resources - By making products from recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land
and reduce the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.
- Saves Energy - It usually takes less energy to make recycled products; recycled aluminum,
for example, takes 95% less energy to make than new aluminum from bauxite ore.
- Saves Clean Air and Water - In most cases, making products from recycled products
creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.
- Saves Landfill Space - When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don't go into
landfills or incinerators, so landfill space is conserved.
- Saves Money and Creates Jobs - The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills
or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.
Source: California Recycles Day
- Recycled Products are Hard to Find
- This used to be true, but no longer. Stores now sell thousands of products made from or packaged in recycled
content material and several recycled products are currently included in Stanford's campus wide purchasing agreements.
Consumers can also encourage suppliers to offer recycled-content products simply by asking for them.
- Recycled Products Aren't As Good as "Virgin" Products
- This is simply not true. Recycled products have the same quality, reliability, and dependability.
A recent survey of hundreds of corporate purchasing agents showed that 97% of respondents were
pleased with the performance of recycled content products. These days recycled-content products
undergo the same stringent testing and exacting performance documentation that virgin products are subjected to.
- Recycled Products Cost More
- Simply put, recycled products are priced competitively with their non-recycled counterparts. Sometimes products manufactured with
recycled products cost less. And yes, sometimes they cost more. But the same can be said for everything in the marketplace.
Bottom line? Take time to investigate prices.
Source: California Recycles Day
- Stanford Purchasing Agreements
- Stanford's campus wide purchasing agreements include several types of recycled-content products. In addition to recycled paper,
you can purchase recycled Post-It note pads (on-line catalogue item number MMM653A or MMM656A for 1-7/8" notes or MMM654A for 3" notes),
recycled scissors (ACM44218), recycled desk drawer organizers (MMMC71) and recycled-content storage boxes (FEL00724). You can include the term
recycled when searching for products to identify items with recycled content.
- Recycled-Content Products Database
- The California Integrated Waste Management Board offers a comprehensive on-line directory of companies that sell recycled-content products ranging from
paper, other office supplies, landscape and garden supplies and even construction materials at http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/rcp/.
The directory lists several businesses that sell a given recycled-content product and contact information for each firm.
Here are a few companies that sell awards,
clothing,
household items,
office products,
plastic lumber products and
promotional materials
made from recycled materials. This
list is provided for your information only; the Stanford Recycling Center does not
endorse any of these businesses.
Amazing Recycling Products
Amazing Recycled Products offers award clocks and plaques. Check out
http://www.amazingrecycled.com.
Rainbow Environmental Products
Rainbow Environmental Products sells trophies and plaques made from recycled
materials. Check out http://www.ecopromo.com.
Resource Revival
Resource Revival sells awards, promotional products, and other unique items made from old bicycle parts. Check out http://www.ResourceRevival.com.
Rivanna Natural Designs
Rivanna Natural Designs sells environmentally responsible plaques, awards, and gifts. Check out http://www.rivannadesigns.com.
Weisenbach Specialty Printing
Weisenbach sells clocks, round glass awards, and other products. Call (800) 778-5420
or visit http://www.weisenbach.com.
Amazing Recycling Products
Amazing Recycled Products offers T-shirts and shoes. Check out
http://www.amazingrecycled.com.
Clothes Made From Scrap, Inc.
Clothes Made From Scrap sells 100% recycled content cotton clothing and accessories. Check out http://www.ClothesMadeFromScrap.com.
Greenweave International
Greenweave International is a manufacturer of recycled content apparel and canvas products using Fortrel EcoSpun (recycle soda pop bottles) and Reclaimed Cotton. Check out www.greenweave.com.
Impressions Marketing
Impressions Marketing sells gifts, meeting and promotional merchandise using recycled and recyclable materials. Check out www.recycled.ca.
Morning Star Trading Company
Morning Star Trading Company sells 100% recycled T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, and caps. Check out http://www.mstartrading.com.
Patagonia/Beneficial T's
Although Patagonia has discontinued the Beneficial T's clothing line, see this webpage for referrals to organic cotton t-shirts and tote bag suppliers that Patagonia has worked with in the past. Check out
http://www.beneficialts.com/suppliers.html.
Rainbow Environmental Products
Rainbow Environmental Products sells custom recycled T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts
and caps. Check out www.ecopromo.com.
Shasta Visions
Shasta Visions sells earth jewelry made from recycled glass. Check out
www.shastavisions.com.
Stan Miller and Associates
Stan Miller offers a wide variety of promotional materials with recycled content, including T-shirts. Check out
http://www.millerpromotions.com.
T.S. Designs Inc.
Provides apparel solutions through innovation and sustainability. GREEN LABEL ORGANIC™ is proud to introduce a few styles from their new 100% Organic Cotton, domestically made pre-print line, featuring REHANCE® print and dye technology from T.S. Designs, Inc. Check out
http://www.tsdesigns.com/.
Fire and Light
Fire and Light sells dinnerware made from 85% recycled glass bottles.
Call (800) 844-2223 for more information or check out http://www.fireandlight.com.
Green Glass
Green Glass converts empty discarded bottles into elegant glassware. Check out http://greenglass.com.
Interface Flooring
Interface introduced the first carpet tile to be made with 100% recycled face fiber and a layer of 100% recycled vinyl in the backing. Today, Interface is setting the pace for development of modular carpet by using materials and processes that take less from the environment while delivering improved performance. Check out
http://www.interfaceflooring.com for more information.
Oceanside Glasstile Co
Oceanside Glasstile sells Oceania tile, 85% recycled glass tile with a cobalt tin overlay.
Visit http://www.glasstile.com for more information.
Resource Revival
Resource Revival sells unique gifts and home furnishings made from old bicycle parts. Check out http://www.ResourceRevival.com.
Shaw Industries
Shaw Industries sells carpet made out of 100% recycled PET bottles under the brand
name Philadelphia Carpet. Call (800) 882-8846 or visit
http://www.shawfloors.com for more information.
Stoneware Tile Company
Stoneware Tile manufactures glass and ceramic tile using over 70% recycled glass
under the brand name Terra Green.
Call (765) 935-4760 for more information.
GreenLine Paper Company
GreenLine sells a wide variety of environmentally friendly office products, including
filing and presentation products, desk pads and calendars, pens and pencils, trash & recycling
supplies, cleaning/maintenance products, office paper, tablets, pads and notes, and tissue and
towel products. Check out http://www.greenlinepaper.com.
Master Mark Industries
Master Mark Industries a variety of lawn and garden products made out of recycled plastic, including
landscape edging, lattice, lawn and garden accessories, decking, fencing and ponds. Check out
http://www.mastermark.com.
Plastic Lumber Company
The Plastic Lumber Company makes signs, decking, picnic tables, park benches, waste receptacles,
site furnishing and play structures from recycled plastic. As these durable earth friendly
products never splinter, rot, crumble or need painting, they have many advantages over products
made from wood, concrete and metal. Check out
www.plasticlumber.com.
RENEW Plastics
RENEW Plastics is a leading manufacturer of recycled plastic products such as
boards, sheets and finished items. Check out
http://www.renewplastics.com.
US Plastic Lumber
US Plastic Lumber sells plastic lumber suitable for decks, docks, and other uses as well
as furniture and waste receptacles made from plastic lumber. Check out
http://www.usplasticlumber.com.
Adapt Ad Specialty
Adapt Ad Specialty offers mugs, pencils, bookmarks, rulers, pens, clipboards,
calendars, paperweights, magnets, watches and more. Check out
http://www.adaptadspecialty.com.
Amazing Recycling Products
Amazing Recycled Products offers mugs, pencils, bookmarks, rulers, pens, clipboards, calendars, paperweights, magnets, watches and more. Check out
http://www.amazingrecycled.com.
Delta Industries
Delta Industries sells 25-50% recycled bottles. Call (800) 435-7338 for more information.
Morning Star Trading Company
Morning Star Trading Company sells 100% recycled bags and backpacks in addition to clothing. Check out http://www.mstartrading.com.
Impressions Marketing
Impressions Marketing sells gifts, meeting and promotional merchandise using recycled and recyclable materials. Check out www.recycled.ca.
Molded Container Corporation
Molded Container Corp sells Frisbees and water bottles made from 100% recycled plastic.
Call (503) 233-8601 for more information.
Rainbow Environmental Products
Rainbow Environmental Products sells custom recycled pens, pencils, mugs, water bottles
and other promotional products. Check out www.ecopromo.com.
Stan Miller and Associates
Stan Miller offers a wide variety of promotional materials with recycled content, including
mugs, pencils, pens, key chains, T-shirts, magnets, etc.
Contact Information:
25955 Aurora Road, Cleveland Ohio 44146
(440) 232-4510
Fax (440) 232-1732
Weisenbach Specialty Printing
Weisenbach sells water bottles made from recycled plastic. Call (800) 778-5420
or visit http://www.weisenbach.com.
If you know of another company that should be listed on this page, please email
Julie Muir
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