Manage HR Magazine | Thursday, December 02, 2021
The RightCycle Program, which began in the US with a few scientific manufacturing customers, is now available in nine countries across Europe and North America, with a diverse customer base that includes universities, zoos, laboratories, manufacturing facilities, breweries, and a wide range of other businesses.
Fremont, CA: After being a leader in contamination control solutions for classrooms and laboratories for a decade, Kimberly-Clark Professional has celebrated its 10-year anniversary of The RightCycle™ Program, the first large-scale recycling effort for non-hazardous lab, cleanroom and industrial waste. Since 2011, the program has enabled more than 800 customers to divert over 1,400 metric tons of waste.
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) such as garments, masks, gloves, and goggles that were previously difficult to recycle are collected by the RightCycle Program. These items are then recycled by regionally based recycling partners, who turn them into new pellets that are then used to make consumer goods and durable goods. Flowerpots and lawn furniture, as well as benches and bicycle racks, are examples of these.
The RightCycle Program, which began in the US with a few scientific manufacturing customers, is now available in nine countries across Europe and North America, with a diverse customer base that includes universities, zoos, laboratories, manufacturing facilities, breweries, and a wide range of other businesses.
Many customers have benefited from the RightCycle Program. Since 2018, a collaboration with the Dallas Zoo has resulted in the diversion of over 2,444 pounds of gloves – roughly the weight of the zoo's female hippopotamus.
The RightCycle Program is part of Kimberly-2030 Clark's goal of improving the lives of one billion people in underserved communities around the world while reducing the company's environmental footprint by half. Kimberly-Clark recognizes that a strong and long-term focus on protecting natural systems is just as important in assisting people to live better lives. To that end, the company is concentrating its efforts in the areas where it can have the greatest impact: climate, water, forests, and plastics.
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"When these gloves go to a landfill, they can be consumed by wildlife, or they can wind up in our oceans and harm marine life," remarked Shannon College, a Dallas Zoo animal supervisor who runs the zoo's "Green Team." "Anything we can do to reduce that impact is vitally important to us."
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