Fun Facts

• In 1997-1998: Bridget Turner (now Johnson) knocked on doors in the mountains west of Boulder for over 100 days straight signing up houses to begin Green Girl Recycling – back then.. she was ‘The Green Girl’.
• The first recycling vehicle to haul Green Girl material was Bridget’s 1995 Jeep that pulled a modified 5’ motorcycle trailer (very hard to turn around with in tight driveways!).
• All recycling hauled from homes between 1998 and 2001 was kept in separate recycling containers (Rubbermaid bins from Target) because back then – each commodity needed to be delivered separately to recycling centers as a ‘clean stream’.
• The first official recycling truck bought in 1999 by The Green Girl was in a white 1978 Ford 250 4x4 flatbed named “Greystoke” that we had to fix monthly to keep in service (we still have the truck, but don’t use it on recycling routes anymore!).
• In 1999 Bridget married Matt Johnson and hired him as her first ‘official’ employee – he jokes that he is ‘the green guy – not the green girl!’.  Thankfully Matt loves the mountains and rock-climbing so he still helps run our mountain routes to this day (in between scaling a few rocks here and there).
• April of 2004 we moved the Green Mountain Warehouse from Boulder to Longmont and began more involved electronics, shredding and bailing services for all customers.
• Our first grant in 2004 came from The Boulder County Resource Conservation Department to purchase a 10’ hydraulic stake-bed that we put on a 1985 4x4 chassis and acts as our back-up mountain recycling/wood pallet hauling truck – fortunately another grant from BCRCD in 2006 went into a new Chevy recycling truck we still use to this day!
• In 2006 Gavin Matthew Johnson was born – making him our #1 ‘Green Kid’.
• We hired 3 employees from the Green Mountain merger and are lucky enough to say we still have 2 of those original guys working with us to this day – Roberto and Jesus, we love our employees!
• To keep up with the markets, economy and ‘big haulers’ we received a grant from Boulder County in 2008 to purchase 150, 96-gal poly carts to begin hauling single-stream recycling from businesses and restaurants.  Further to this grant, we also purchased our first trash-style truck from Arizona (Bridget drove it back to Colorado with her cousin Jeff..) and named it ‘Betsy’ after another cousin who lives in Arizona.
• 2009 we bought a second trash-style truck to run up in Ft. Collins and named that truck ‘Monty’.  
• In 2009 we grew despite the economy, were named in the Boulder County Business Report as one of Boulder Top Ten Fastest Growing Companies and hired an additional two employees to help us keep up with routing.
• In 2010, our second 'Green Baby,' Turner Johnson, was born.