Golf Environment Organization

Purchasing recycled products completes the recycling loop. By "buying recycled," golf facilities and those staging golf events can play an important role in making the entire recycling process a success. 

Purchasing and using recycled products lessens the pressure put on natural resources and helps to keep functioning ecosystems intact. In addition, it saves energy and water, helps to preserve landfill space, supports recycling markets, and bolsters the economy.

So not only do you need to recycle your items when you are finished with them, but you need to consider buying from the increasing range of recycled content products to truly support the process.

Did you know that it can take up to three litres of oil to produce a single toner cartridge for your printer. That's three litres of oil every time you buy a new one.

As consumers demand more environmentally sound products, manufacturers will continue to meet that demand by producing high-quality recycled products.

Construction produces more than four times as much waste as  the domestic sector.  The environmental impacts of extracting, processing and transporting materials for construction, and then dealing with their waste, are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, toxic emissions, habitat and ecosystem destruction and resource depletion.

Sourcing recycled construction materials really can make a difference. Recycled and recyclable products are now widespread and readily available: they include glass sands and recycled processing sands, crushed aggregates, compost derived soils, timber, steel, plastic geo-textiles and pipework.

Buying recycled-content products ensures that the materials collected in recycling programmes will be used again in the manufacture of new products.

In relation to office and clubhouse materials, golf facilities can use recycled paper, cardboard, plastics,  crockery, napkins and many other day to day products and materials.  

Why not make 'buying recycled' part of your purchasing policy?

Many everyday purchases already contain significant amounts of reclaimed material. With increasingly refined manufacturing processes, the performance of the material is rarely affected by the recycled content, for example the use of recovered aluminium in beverage cans and glass in jars and bottles. The purchaser is unaware of the presence of reclaimed material and needs to make no conscious effort to select a particular product.

Other frequently used items regularly containing reclaimed materials are relatively low grade items such as cardboard boxes and brown envelopes. Before waste became a matter of general concern the inclusion of recycled material in such items was not publicised, and it may still not be evident.

Checking with your supplier should provide some information as to what extent items currently purchased include reclaimed content, its percentage and the source of pre- or post-consumer waste.

In other situations it will be necessary to specify that your company wishes to use products which are recycled, for example with photocopier or printing papers. There are many companies and government sponsored initiatives which specialise in providing technical information on recycled products, and also an increasing number of specialised suppliers of recycled office and construction products and materials.

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