Tag: recycling

Billboard Insider Readers Talk Vinyl Recycling

Some reader comments on yesterday’s What Do You Do with Old Vinyl? post. A Midwest out of home exec Tom Giesken uses vinyls for slip n slides or sells them as covers or pond liners. I never dispose of vinyls. They come in handy for so many things; personal and […]

Rareform Recycles Billboard Vinyl

Rareform helps billboard companies promote sustainability by repurposing vinyl and PE.  Insider talked with Rareform’s CEO Alec Avedissian to get an update on what’s new. What’s your elevator pitch? Rareform takes freeway billboards and vinyls and repurposes them into bags and accessories.  We started five years ago.  We were featured […]

OOH Industry Environmental Track Record

By Nancy Fletcher, OAAA President and CEO A quarter-century ago, the US Senate debated billboards. Pro-environment Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland said in 1991, “I am up to my earrings in environmental problems.” Pollution in Chesapeake Bay, she said, is a real environmental problem. Cleaning up toxic-waste Superfund sites – […]

Tony Mariani on Recycling Vinyl for Cash

Tony Mariani of DDI Media has developed an innovative program for turning used vinyl into cash. During 2014 DDI handled 2,267 vinyl wraps. He saves old vinyl and sells it individually at $25/each of for $600 for a pallet of 40. He markets via word of mouth and an ad […]