Sustainability Principles CleanRiver™ recycling containers and waste bins are designed using environmentally responsible materials made with the highest percent recycled content available for the application. In keeping with our philosophy to reduce, reuse, recycle, and repurpose, CleanRiver™ recycling stations can be recycled at the end of use to complete a cradle-to-cradle (C2C), waste free, life cycle. Our products exceed EPA guidelines for post consumer recycled content to support LEED Certification Credits and BOMA BESt initiatives. Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement CleanRiver’s manufacturing processes follow manufacturing principles focused on continuous daily improvement. Through a disciplined approach called Kaizen (the Japanese word for improvement), we have been able to reduce our lead times while providing better quality recycling containers and waste bins at a lower overall cost. We reclaim, recycle, and reuse the cut offs and plastic debris chips that are created by our routering and milling operations when creating our plastic lumber products. The cut-offs and debris chips are cycle shipped back to our plastic lumber supplier and are used once again in the manufacturing of new lumber and this process continues over and over, closing the loop. |  Vacuum extraction collects all scrap HDPE to be recycled. |