After a Covid-induced hiatus, Garmin’s Earth Day recycling occasion returned to the Olathe campus on April 22. Held within the northeast parking zone of Constructing 5, the drive-through occasion drew greater than 500 associates who dropped off e-scrap and paper waste throughout one in all two periods. In all, associates recycled greater than 11,000 kilos of paper and 68 pallets of e-scrap, in contrast with 6,000 kilos of paper and 28 pallets of e-scrap in 2019.
“Total, we just about doubled the amount of scrap recycled two years in the past,” stated Nick Funesti, Garmin Environmental Well being and Security (EHS) affiliate and occasion coordinator. “It positively blew me away seeing the response from associates who have been enthusiastic about it and confirmed up.”
The annual occasion encourages associates to complete up their spring cleansing by bringing in undesirable digital, paperwork and papers to a contactless drop-off website on campus.
Aided by staff members from amenities, safety, IT compliance and EHS — together with 7 Garmin volunteers — individuals efficiently diverted about 2,000 kilos of batteries and 160 cubic ft of cardboard from the landfill.
“We couldn’t have finished it with out these people who volunteered,” Funesti stated. “We will certainly maintain this occasion once more subsequent 12 months on Earth Day and proceed to do it yearly and hopefully we are able to scale and get the phrase out extra and get much more participation.”
E-waste is the fastest-growing waste product in America, and roughly one billion timber’ value of paper is thrown away yearly within the U.S.
