ZWZ Auxiliary Program
The ZWZ Auxiliary Program gives Participants guidance on avenues available to broaden their sustainable practices beyond the ZWZ Criteria, including social responsibility.
ELECTRONICS RECYCLING
UNICOR's unique, full service recycling program is an integrated part of a national e-scrap solution. UNICOR's commitment to the environment extends to its vendors, who are required to sign no-landfill certifications, follow a restrictive export policy, and agree to site inspections.With nationwide locations and approximately 950 highly trained workers, UNICOR offers exceptional value and competitive pricing. UNICOR provides recycling activities to federal, state, and local governments, schools, non-profit organizations and private industry while protecting the environment.
UNICOR is a Federal Prison System program that provides inmate job training designed to develop technical skills and work ethics. By participating in UNICOR’s program, ZWZ Participants incorporate social responsibility into their sustainable practices.
Contact:
Drew Short
U.S. Department of Justice/UNICOR
phone: 850-526-7040
email: dshort@central.iunicor.gov
GRASS ROOTS COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN
The Green Economy Diversity Initiative (GEDI), the nation’s leading green disadvantaged business advocacy organization is the official licensee of the Going the Green Mile (GTGM) Pledge and Challenge campaign. The community and businesses are asked to take their “First Steps" and take “Action” towards sustainability by signing the…..Going the Green Mile Pledge and taking the Challenge.
All participants are asked to implement the GTGM eco-principles – simple green practices in the following areas:
- Energy reduction
- Water conservation
- Waste reduction/reduce ,reuse, recycle
- Transportation
- Indoor Air Quality/Green cleaning
Contact:
Charles "Champ" Walker
Chair GEDI Green Economy Diversity Initiative
email: cwalker@greendivide.org
web: www.greendivide.org
SOAP RECYCLING
The Global Soap Project recovers and recycles soap from American hotels and facilitates a process by which it is sanitized, melted and remolded into new bars, then distributed to refugee camps in Africa.There is an almost infinite supply of available hospitality industry soap with 4.6-million hotel rooms in the United States; an estimated 2.6-million soap bars are discarded every day. Repurposing this waste can greatly improve the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, one bar of soap at a time.
Contact:
Derrick Kayongo
Global Soap Project
email: soaproject@aol.com
RECYCLE WINE CORKS
Since it's 2008 inception, Cork ReHarvest has led the cork recycling movement in the US and Canada, helping to collect and recycle some of the 13 billion natural corks produced each year.The Cork ReHarvest Mission is: Our organization is dedicated to the protection and sustainability of the Mediterranean cork forests and the families, who for generations have farmed these forests.
To learn more about Cork ReHarvest or to join the program click here.
