Removes Long Term Concerns On Environmental Liability

• Recycling ensures hazardous materials are reused and not simply stored with the potential to cause problems in years to come.

Improves Human Health and the Environment

• Batteries may contain caustic or acidic liquids, and toxic or hazardous metals such as mercury, cadmium, nickel and lead.
  
  
• Fluorescent lamps and High Intensity Discharge lamps contain mercury. Mercury is released into the air upon breaking and mercury also enters the environment through leaching at garbage dumps.

Waste Reduction

• Many cities and regions have policies to slow down the rate of garbage flowing to the dumps. For example, the Greater Vancouver Regional District is working toward reducing per capita waste disposal by 50 per cent by the year 2010, a target set by the Province.

ISO compliance

Company policy

• Many companies incorporate their views, actions, and undertakings directly in corporate policy documents.

Exhibits Environmental Leadership

• Take BC Hydro, a provincial Crown Corporation, for example. Here's part of what they have to say on their web site: "BC Hydro is committed to producing and delivering electricity in an environmentally and socially responsible manner, but what evidence is there that we live up to that pledge? Environmental considerations are part of our daily operations." We are proud to have BC Hydro as a Nu-Life customer.

Builds Better Community Relations

• The University of British Columbia, another Nu-Life customer provides a good example. "The Waste Reduction Program orchestrates campus and residence recycling activities and provides education and information on waste reduction to the campus community. Our role is to instigate, coordinate and promote waste reduction, reuse and recycling activities at the University of British Columbia."