Ecology Action is a nonprofit organization committed to educating and empowering people to create a healthier environment through recycling and environmental education. The nonprofit created Austin’s first recycling program over 40 years ago, which now has expanded to provide comprehensive industrial and commercial recycling solutions for businesses in the Austin and Central Texas region. In collaboration with the City of Austin and the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD), its latest program, Austin Marketplace, brings together entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes to create closed-loop systems in which one company’s waste is another company’s raw material. At the time of writing, over 80 businesses are participating in the initiative.