Immersion Research 2010

Recycling day is an exciting day at IR for many reasons. There is the obvious reason of constantly trying to reduce our impact on the environment, but mainly, we are excited to free up the space that our recycling bins take up. As you can see in the picture, we place 125 cubic foot cardboard gaylords on palettes and line them up throughout our facility, and being that our pickup is every four weeks, we end up with about 6 full containers here. With that much recycling going on, we don’t even fill up our dumpster in two weeks.
We use a company called Jasar Recycling out of eastern Ohio (www.jasarrecycling.com) to pick up our goods. Pickup is free as their revenue is generated on the back end. They take almost everything and are currently working on ways to recycle styrofoam. They recycle unwanted mail, old packing lists, bottles, cans, shrink wrap, overthruster scraps etc. One of the coolest things that they do is recycle shrink wrap by melting it down and making it into little pellets and sell them to a company that makes hula hoops. They are used as fill to make the rattling noise!

Ways you can help us reduce our footprint:
-when sending back garments for repair, don’t use extra packaging. Skirts don’t need to be protected by styrofoam peanuts!
-send us boxes that we can reuse. Exception: the box you send to us has been re-used lots and is fit to be recycled
-have us email you order confirmations and invoices as opposed to mailing them
-email us our invoices and order confirmations
-recycle our packaging and packing slips and reuse our boxes.
-support our efforts by checking out our ever increasing line of goods made from sustainable materials: Enviroskin Products, Thin Skin Products, Basec T’s, Arbolito Pants and Shorts and See Change Jacket.