Recycling Makes Financial Sense and Good Corporate Citizens
This article originally appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of NCIA News. For more information on NCIA News, please go to National Correctional Industry Association(link is external).
Several years ago, while ordering material for our commodities manufacturing shop, Al Wesley, a regional manager for Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI), noticed that the cardboard and plastic used to manufacture corrugated boxes and trash can liners were made from recycled materials. So when Wesley made the next order of materials for the production of mattresses, he asked his supplier where they got their raw materials. The supplier informed Wesley that most of the material was comprised of recycled clothing and linens. At the time, Arizona prisons were simply throwing out discarded clothing and linens, so Wesley asked the supplier if ACI could sell these discarded items for recycling and thus partially off set the cost of the cores and padding that ACI was purchasing. ACI and the supplier agreed. A deal was struck and a new partnership was forged … one where it’s not only good for the environment, but good for both businesses as well.
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