Any company, large or small, can implement a paper recycling program. If you are a small company with 20 office workers or less, you can either take your paper to a recycling center or join together with other companies in your building and recycle together. By joining together, you will easily produce enough paper to hire a recycler to pick up your paper.

Before you begin to develop your recycling program, contact your building manager to find out if a recycling program is being planned. If not, try to encourage the manager to help you start one. If there are other tenants in your building, it will help if the manager knows that other tenants also want to recycle. It's important to involve the building manager because this person will be important when it comes time to set up a paper collection system and hire a recycler.

In general, office paper recycling programs can be implemented anywhere there are people throwing away office paper. This would include:

• Commercial businesses
• Institutions and civic organizations
• Schools
• Libraries
• Hospitals
• Government offices
• Multi-tenant commercial buildings and complexes

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