EcoPods NZ Ltd – Member profile for SBN
Published in the January 2010 Sustainable Business Network Newsletter
"Recycling can be easy and enjoyable!"
EcoPods NZ provides businesses with the perfect recycling solution – a unique, smart and user- friendly method of segregating and handling recycled waste within the workplace.
Versatile and adaptable, the colour coded pods with matching jumbo size biodegradable sacks, take the hard work out of recycling and makes the whole process enjoyable rather than a soul destroying exercise.
The waste is contained ready for collection, in the 115 litre/15 kgs capacity sacks which are easily handled, with low risk of cross-contamination of waste and means no bin to clean out.
Based in Napier, in beautiful Hawkes Bay, the company has been trading for 18 months and during this time has built up a solid customer base throughout New Zealand.
'Clean and Green' Te Mata Peak, Havelock North
So who are using the Pods and why?
Many businesses are now keen to instigate a recycling programme within their organisations, driven often by their own employees, who having devoted a lot of time, energy and passion into recycling at home, are disheartened by having no place to recycle at work.
Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that staff morale and loyalty to a company is improved by having a recycling programme, as all are involved in the one common purpose of striving for a green environment.
Removing recyclables from the waste stream also lowers the environmental ‘footprint’ of a building through reducing waste to landfill.
This can of course also result in substantial cost savings to a company as following on from the recent increase in landfill charges; it is now much cheaper to recycle.
Our customers include educational establishments, district councils, local, national and multi-national businesses, Government organisations and light and heavy Industry.
We believe that having an effective recycling programme can make an immediate and highly visible impact on all levels of an organisation, environmentally, psychologically and socially – as the old adage says “You only get out what you put in”!