The EBSCO Green Team is a group of employees who are passionate about conserving and preserving our environment. The team is charged with finding ways to lessen EBSCO’s environmental footprint by providing employees with easy ways to be green at work and home.

The EBSCO Green Team organizes green initiatives and events and educates the EBSCO population on the importance of thinking green.

These include:

Aluminum can recycling: Headquarters has installed aluminum can crushers in the cafeteria and break rooms for employees to use for can recycling. Want one in your department? Contact Becky Caldarello to make arrangements.

Beverage bottle recycling: EBSCO has installed bins in break areas and the cafeteria for employees to use in recycling their beverage bottles. Want one in your department? E-mail Becky Caldarello to make arrangements.

Household recycling center on campus: Many EBSCO employees do not have curbside recycling at their homes, so EBSCO installed a recycling center in the small parking lot on the right-hand side as you head to the SouthEast Building. Employees can bring plastic, glass, aluminum and mixed paper from home and have it recycled.

Paper recycling: Large blue bins on wheels are stationed around copiers and places of great paper waste at Headquarters, providing employees with easy paper recycling.

Ink cartridges, cell phones and pagers: Bring your used ink cartridges, cell phones and pagers to be recycled. Look for the Cartridges for Kids boxes throughout Headquarters. Can’t find a box? Interoffice mail them to Rachael Crawley, Corporate Communications.

Fluorescent Bulbs and CFLs: Once only open to EBSCO’s waste, Administrative Services now permits employees to bring their fluorescent bulbs and CFLs from home for proper disposal. When your bulbs burn out, bring them to Johnny Williams at the West Building loading dock for proper disposal.

What’s in the future? You!
The EBSCO Green Team is always thinking of new, innovative ways help EBSCO and employees become more responsible stewards of our world. They also realize that the future lies in both their hands, and those of their co-workers. No matter how big or how small an initiative is, it makes a positive impact.

The Green Team encourages ideas, feedback and success stories from EBSCO employees across the globe. Tell us what you are doing at your office or home, what you would like to see made available and what you think about existing endeavors.