Preface
This guide was prepared under the direction of the Steering Committee of the Buy Recycled Business Alliance (BRBA), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. The Buy Recycled Business Alliance, founded in 1992 as a partnership of the National Recycling Coalition, is a group of organizations committed to increasing the procurement of recycled content products through education and leadership by example.
The National Recycling Coalition is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of recycling, source reduction, composting and reuse by providing technical information, education, training, outreach and advocacy services to its members in order to conserve resources and benefit the environment.
As an advocacy group, the BRBA has developed support and outreach projects including:
- Workshops on buy recycled programs for purchasing managers
- Case studies on green building projects
- Technical data sheets on recycled content products
- A two-year informational program about buy recycled programs targeted to CEOs of Fortune 1000 US companies through the Harvard Business Review, and
- Updated educational support through our website: http://www.nrc-recycle.org/brba
Our latest achievement is this managerial guide, which we hope will be a useful reference both to those companies who are initiating programs as well as those who are attempting to grow or reinvigorate existing buy recycled efforts.
The following companies comprise the BRBA 2002 Steering Committee:
American Plastics Council
Armstrong Building Products
Boise Cascade Office Products
BuyReman.com
The Coca-Cola Company
C & A Floorcoverings
Council for Textile Recycling
Milliken & Company
Patagonia, Inc.
Southern Company
Steel Recycling Institute
Target Stores
Tetra Pak Inc.
United States Postal Service
Verizon
Walmart, Inc.
Waste Management