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Running *** business opens doors and it can also open new paths to protecting our planet. Today we'll explore how visionary entrepreneurs across the country are transforming sustainability into smart business from partnerships that reduce waste to innovative and creative recycling processes. These leaders are not just making *** living, they're making *** difference. Thanks for joining us. I'm Stephen Alberton. For our first round of stories, we spotlight businesses that join forces to tackle our waste problem. First up, WCBB reporter Doug Meehan shows how two Boston area companies prove that one person's trash is another's treasure. Inside the historic Laurel Lake Mill building in Fall River, *** company called Accurate Services is making these small, comfortable positioning support devices used to hold preemie babies while in the hospital. When *** baby is really severely premature and they're intubated, they have tubes and whatnot, the products are used to sort of keep. tubes from weighing down on the baby. That's the plus side of what's manufactured here, but Accurate has encountered *** minor downside. When you're making *** multitude of products, there's waste. That waste comes in the form of leftover fiber fill used for the baby's head rests. So these are the Cast offs, the end cuts. State legislation which prohibits disposing fabric waste in the trash. This would just end up in *** landfill somewhere. Companies like Accurate Services are facing an accumulating problem. When you have bags and bags each week of castoff fabric, it's really hard to get rid of that. The answer to this disposable dilemma. Another local manufacturer, Diucchini Apparel Company. *** customer just asked me if we would make pillows. Talk about timing. The two companies now teaming up to upcycle the fabric waste instead of needing to purchasing pillow inserts from another company. Deucchini now has access to Accurate's very local leftover fiber fill. Owner Caitlin Shea calling it *** win-win not only for both of these manufacturers. But for the environment as well, the carbon footprint of that decision was significant because there is no transporting, there's no manufacturing somewhere else, and how big it can get is all based on you know the customers out there that want to help support this initiative. If we each make *** little difference, we're making *** difference.