Recycling and Reuse Programs
Campinas
Nortel in Campinas, Brazil has successful recycling programs in partnership with institutions to benefit children who live in orphanages. Campinas provides various organizations waste paper and wood for re-use, recycling or energy recovery. In one partnership with ABPF (Associação Brasileira de Preservação Ferroviária), the organization recompenses Nortel by providing orphan children with train tickets for leisure travel. The program benefits more than 240 children a year.
For electronic waste, Campinas sells the waste to Cimelia. The materials provided to Cimelia includes heavy and light board, connector boards with and without metals, soft and tense aluminum, mixed components, iron and copper. Paper, plastic, cans, glass and organic wastes collected at Campinas are provided for recycling by Motriz, a local company. Funds raised are used to sponsor about 100 children from two philanthropic organizations.
Westwinds
The Reuse and Recycling Room at the Westwinds facility in Calgary is filled with reusable items such as packaging material, foam, Styrofoam, cardboard boxes, binders, file folders and more. The items are placed in the room by employees, to be reused by employees. There are volunteers that help out, by promoting the room and checking supplies. The volunteers actively collect items from shop floors. Westwinds also has a recycling program for cardboard and paper, which generates approximately $3000 in revenue per month; the funds are returned to the business with environmental initiatives supported by the business.
