Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Mission
BRIT’s mission is to conserve our natural heritage by deepening our knowledge of the plant world and achieving public understanding of the value plants bring to life.Founded in 1987 and based in Fort Worth, BRIT documents the diversity of plant life and conducts extensive research around the world. In the last ten years, BRIT scientists have located and described scores of species previously unknown to science.
Similar to the botanist-explorers of the 18th century, our scientists share the same desires and traits as Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, and Charles Darwin. We’re adventurous, curious, passionate, independent, and smart. In addition, we are teachers. We are driven to find new plant species and research plant life for agricultural, economic, environmental, medical, and social uses and to share that knowledge in the classroom and the research laboratory.
Current major projects are ongoing in Texas, Europe, Peru, and Pacific Islands.
Significance of BRIT
BRIT supports botanical solutions to address globally challenging problems ranging from pollution clean-up to sustainable food sources. By serving as a think tank and catalyst, BRIT inspires learning and forms interdisciplinary collaborations for critical research within scientific, educational, social, cultural, and business communities.Our work impacts our community and the world in many functional areas including: environment, by giving people a local sense of stewardship; medicinal plant efficacy , by contributing with colleagues to an appreciation of the nutritional and medicinal use of plants; society, by training a new generation of thinkers and problem solvers; and in agriculture by working with our collaborating institutions to create a better understanding of sustainable agricultural practices and preserving plant diversity.
Foster a culture of recycling in North Texas, provide outstanding service to businesses that care, and use our success to rally for the causes of good neighborhoodship and environmental awareness.
- Recycle Revolution Mission Statement
Recycle Revolution LLC (RR) is an independently-owned, non-landfill recycling company. We provide a one-stop shop collection service for a growing and diverse group of businesses and multi-family communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and waste consulting and project management services to establishments seeking LEED and zero-waste goals. We are also a Community Drop-Off Center for both traditional and Hard-to-Recycle-Materials (HaRM).
Since our founding in the Spring of 2008, RR has worked tirelessly to offer North Texans an alternative to landfilling, diverting a larger array of materials from landfills--including Styrofoam, glass, e-waste, and more--than any other local company we know of.
Today, in addition to offering North Texas's most comprehensive recycling collection service for businesses and multi-family communities, RR offers compost collection, secure document destruction ("shredding"), and environmental consulting for projects seeking LEED and zero-waste goals.
Our Team is proud to call some 100+ (and growing!) of DFW's most environmentally responsible establishments Our Clients, and to operate North Texas's most comprehensive Community Drop-Off Center.
We invite you to look around this site and study our processes and services, to contact us if you have any questions, and to swing by our office (bring your HaRM items!) if you're in the neighborhood.
We also invite you to rethink your current waste process, to reduce and reuse everything you can whenever possible, and to recycle the rest.
And, if you need help, we invite you to Join the Revolution!
