Keith Lee: Turning Retail Packaging Green
by Christina Lee on December 4th, 2008
As a Carnation, Wash. dairy employee, Keith Lee’s father used to watch large metal vats of ice-cream flavoring get discarded once empty. Then one day, Lee’s father approached his boss with an idea. “Can I take those out of the trash, and fix them up, and resell them to someone on my own?” he asked. When his boss agreed, Lee’s father took them home to be cleaned. For such a task he recruited his son, who at the time was less than 10 years old. This early employment became Lee’s first experience with recycling. Since then, he, as president of... Read more »