Business Waste Reduction

Waste Reduction and Recycling Posters and Stickers

The California Integrated Waste Management Board is pleased to provide colorful posters and stickers to help coordinate and promote your waste reduction efforts. These posters and stickers are available to California businesses, public service organizations, educational institutions, and local governmental agencies in limited quantities at no charge. For more information on availability, see Costs and Limitations on Mailing below. For more information, e-mail bzassist@calrecycle.ca.gov or call (916) 341-6363.

Order with the online order form, unless you are a California State agency.

California State agencies must order through the State Agency Assistance Section. Note: Some designs are not available to California State agencies.

Also see the recycling posters provided by the Department of Conservation.

Select the links below to view the posters by category. You can also view all the images at once, but this page might take a minute to open if you are connected to the Internet with a dial-up connection.

You can also download posters and stickers and print (or have them printed) yourself! For details on duplicating these images, see Permissions and Restrictions Regarding Duplication below. A PDF viewer such as the free Adobe Reader is required to open or print PDF files.

• Paper Management
• Reuse Office Supplies
• Close the Loop
• Utensil Reuse
• Battery Posters and Stickers
• Fluorescent Lamp and Tube Posters and Stickers
• Medical Waste Posters and Stickers
• Costs and Limitations on Mailing
• Applicability of Posters and Stickers Outside of California
• Permission and Restriction Regarding Duplication

Paper Management

Reuse paper.
Place near printers, photocopy machines, or places where paper is stored.

• Two Sides Are Better Than One--Out of stock, but you can still produce your own!
• Put Your Reusable One Sided Paper In This Box
• Use Both Sides

Recycle paper.
Your coworkers can't recycle unless they know what goes where! Affix to these posters samples of the paper that your office recycles. Display near your recycling bins. What goes where varies from city to city because different recyclers accept different things.

• Acceptable as Mixed Paper
• Acceptable as White Paper
• Unacceptable as Paper

Reduce paper use.
Computers make the best filing cabinets.

• PC Files not Paper Piles

Reuse Office Supplies

Promote reuse.
Keep a place for staff to return unused materials.

• Office Trading Post

Close the Loop

If you don't buy recycled products, you are not recycling.
Customers prefer to do business with businesses that recycle.

• Make it Your Business
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Buy Recycled

Utensil Reuse

Promote Mug Reuse at Coffee Shops.
If we all used reusable coffee mugs instead of paper, we would save thousands of tons of waste and trees. Bring your reusable mug to your favorite coffee shop even if they don't offer a discount, and drop a hint. Take one of these to the manager.

• Next Drop
• Take Your Cup for a Drink

Battery Posters and Stickers

Dangerous if disposed. Valuable if recycled.
They don't go in the trash any more. Promote the safe recycling and disposal of batteries.

• Battery Poster--Out of stock, but you can still reproduce your own!
• Battery Poster, Spanish
• Battery Sticker
• Battery Sticker, Spanish

Fluorescent Lamp and Tube Posters and Stickers

Great for energy conservation, but take care of the mercury.
They don't go in the trash any more. Promote the safe recycling and disposal of batteries.

• Fluorescent Lamp and Tube Poster--Out of stock, but you can still reproduce your own!
• Fluorescent Lamp and Tube Poster, Spanish
• Fluorescent Lamp and Tube Sticker
• Fluorescent Lamp and Tube Sticker, Spanish

Medical Waste Posters and Stickers

Health Care Facilities!
It is as important to keep the wrong things out of red bags as it is to put the right things in.

• Know Where to Throw Poster
• Biohazard Sticker

You can also view all the images at once, but this page might take a minute to open if you are connected to the Internet with a dial-up connection.

Safe Workplace Posters—The poster that says, "You Have a Right to A Safe and Healthful Workplace," is available in English and Spanish from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Costs and Limitations on Mailing

The posters and stickers displayed on these Web pages are available to California businesses, governmental agencies, public service organizations, and educational institutions in limited quantities at no charge. Quantities mailed to California addresses are limited based on actual need and the quantities in stock. Quantities mailed to addresses outside of California may be more restricted.

Applicability of Posters and Stickers Outside of California

Some of the posters and stickers displayed on these Web pages are specially designed to address waste challenges and waste regulations that are unique to California. Although, they might also be suitable for use within other states and countries, it is the responsibility of the people outside of California who request, print, or distribute these posters and stickers to assure that they accurately reflect the needs of the locations where they are used, as well as all laws applicable at those locations.

Permission and Restriction Regarding Duplication

The posters and stickers displayed on these Web pages were created by CalRecycle unless otherwise noted. CalRecycle encourages businesses, governmental agencies, public service organizations, and educational institutions to reproduce and distribute the material displayed on this page to help promote CalRecycle’s goals of waste reduction, recycling, and safe disposal. These materials may be used, resized, and reprinted by anyone for a nonprofit purpose without permission from CalRecycle. However, requests for permission to materially alter the design beyond resizing the design and adding information must be submitted to CalRecycle as outlined in CalRecycle's general use guidelines. E-mail your request to alter the design to opa@calrecycle.ca.gov or mail to:

California Integrated Waste Management Board
Public Affairs Office, MS 6
1001 I Street
PO Box 4025
Sacramento, CA 95812-4025

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