Using less paper benefits you, the bottom line, and the environment. Paperless Express demonstrates the steps to reduce paper at your desk, in the mailroom, by using new technologies, and in many other ways. See how smarter paper buying choices can reduce cost and waste.

Junk mail is a waste, and it costs businesses real money to handle and recycle unwanted mail. Getting off of unwanted mailing lists gets clutter out of your mailroom, frees up staff time, and protects the environment. It takes 17 trees to make a ton of paper. That means nearly 100 million trees get used for junk mail every year in the U.S. Let's keep the trees in the forest, and get the junk mail out of your office.

Waste prevention and recycling are important practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—which are the cause of climate change.

While recycling is great for a company’s bottom line, preventing waste by reducing and reusing can be even better. By stopping waste before it starts you can reap even more benefits and cost savings than recycling alone. There are many different approaches that can have a big payback. Browse our success stories to see what local companies are doing, and consider putting some of these tried and true practices to work in your company:

Many companies are realizing the benefits of recycling already. Below are some success stories highlighting different recycling projects. 

StopWaste offers companies and institutions in Alameda County free help to lower operating costs, increase efficiency and protect the environment through waste prevention improvements.

From redesigning consumer product packaging to improving the efficiency of transport packaging systems, optimizing the packaging materials your company uses can be a key to significant cost savings and other benefits.