Thankful For My Recycling CommunityNovember 23rd, 2011 10:43pm - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
One of the most important lessons I took from business school is that I do not have to be the smartest kid in the class as long as I surround myself with brilliant, genuine people who share a passion to succeed. As I’ve started collecting things together for Thanksgiving with my family this year—the cranberries, the turkey, the freshly washed and folded napkins—my mind has turned once again to the people in this amazing recycling community who have helped me on my quest and who have helped make the world a brighter – and greener—place for everyone.
I have to put my husband, Matt, at the top, of course. Without his help, we would not still be in business today. Not only did I convince him to sell his Toyota (the other love of his life) so that we could buy our first recycling truck—a 1978 Ford ¾ ton 4X4 work horse—but he then spent much of the next few years on his back underneath it on the side of the road. We finally gave up on it when it broke down for good (I still have it, though!), but remarkably, he never gave up on me. For too many back rubs to count and for always telling me, “Oh, honey…you’ll figure it out!” when I’m stuck on something—thank you!
I am thankful for my supportive family—my kids, my parents, and for Matt’s mom, Linda, without whose regular help at the warehouse I could not function! How many times have I had to rely on them when I needed just 15 minutes to help out a customer or to hoist something huge like a television into the truck so I wouldn’t have to send out a second one? My kindergartner, Gavin, pulls more than his weight entertaining his little brother or carrying flyers for me, as well.
I am thankful for Eco-Cycle, and especially for Eric Lombardi who took me under his wing early on and helped me learn how to turn the materials I was hauling to them into dollars. Eco-Cycle has been instrumental in helping me align our recycling community outreach with theirs so that our message was consistent and easy to understand. Special thanks also goes to Dale Ekart for being willing to meet with me early in the morning on many occasions to advise me on recycle-routing and employee selection. (Did I mention I’m thankful for caffeine, too?)
I am thankful for Boulder County—specifically for Jeff Callahan, Gale Elstun, Hilary Collins, Lou Perez and especially Amy in the scale house who works with my drivers daily to make sure we are on target with recycling delivery to the County and giving them the best streams of material we can. Without their encouragement and the COP (Boulder County Outreach Program) grants, we would never have grown like we have. I've always said, without that first 2004 grant which helped us buy our first hydraulically dumping 4x4 mountain work truck, we never could have achieved the level of success necessary to acquire Green Mountain Recycling later that year.
I am immensely thankful for the awesome GGR team who has become an extension of my family in so many ways: Jesus Medina (8 yrs.), Israel Lozano (4 yrs.), Claire Rozinek (3 yrs.), Dean Morrison (3 yrs.), Troy Shively (3 yrs.), Sean Morrison (1 yr.) and our traveling mechanic, Trini Medina (3 yrs.). We would not be in business without their commitment to offer consistent, safe, and reliable recycling services throughout the Boulder, Larimer and Weld Counties.
I am thankful for the people we’ve partnered with to help make the business run better: Michelle Webb with Webb Impact Solutions who handles our SEO (search engine optimization) and Erika Rae with 2 Cups of Copy who helps with education, outreach and grant materials. I’m also excited to announce the addition of Jeff Chamberlin as our new Education and Outreach Coordinator. Thanks to him, we’ll have some much-needed help with grant follow-through and our RCAB membership.
Lastly I want to thank all of our AMAZING customers, both residential and commercial, who recycle and who have green hearts. Without the people who continue to pay us to help them get recycling to the correct places, my dream of providing the most affordable, complete and reliable recycling company would never have been realized.
I am so thankful to have these amazing people in my lives, as well as so many others who I have not named here. I go to bed each night and am beyond thankful for the opportunity to make a difference in our community and on this planet. I am doing something that I love, that I am passionate about and that makes me happy each day. Posted in: Recycling CommunityView / Add Comment | 1 Comment(s) | Rating: 5 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookMonster CartsSeptember 22nd, 2011 2:27pm - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
Every now and then a project comes along that reminds me just how fun it is to be in the recycling business. Not that I’m short on fun opportunities. This year alone I’ve helped raise money for a playground, collected recycling for Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy Days, and enabled some nursing students to get medical supplies to the rainforests of Belize – but this one competes with all of them. Sure, these were all big projects, but this time…I’ve been asked to create a monster! Recently, Green Girl and Green Mountain Recycling had the privilege of developing a recycling plan for Balarat Outdoor Educational Center. As many of you may know, Balarat provides a unique outdoor outreach to Denver Public school children. Each year, more than 10,000 students from the 3rd grade on up through high school visit their beautiful mountain campus to study the environment, Western history and outdoor leadership skills. It’s fun, educational, and in a gorgeous setting. So, when they asked us to help customize a program for them to not only help them be more environmentally responsible, but to also help make recycling fun for kids, I could not have been more pleased. Little did they know that I was going to get some help from a world-class animator! Paige Moore is the real deal. Not only has he landed animated space on BET’s prime time, but he is also one of the creators of the well-loved children’s series, Wow Wow Wubsy!. He has imagination and he has talent. When I asked him to help turn a few poly-carts into something wild and creative, he was all over it. A coat of juicy yellow coupled with some eyes and fangs and we no longer have ordinary poly-carts – we have MONSTER carts, helpfully holding up a list of everything on their diet (which with single stream recycling, means pretty much anything recyclable). He even let me help. The one on the right with the gaping jaws is mine! From Class A office space to large campuses to the less traditional non-profit where kids run free and monsters abide, we love it when groups ask us to develop a recycling program that will work for their space. Not only will we do free recycling audits with businesses or homes, but we'll get containers into their space that will work. We go way out of our way to create, educate and implement programs individually designed for each customer. And as you can see, we love to do it! Visit our FaceBook fan page for some great pics of Paige at work!
Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 4 Comment(s) | Rating: 5 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookThrowing a Green PartyAugust 15th, 2011 7:30pm - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
I’ll happily admit it, I love to throw a good party. As a matter of fact, Green Girl Recycling’s roots can be traced to quite a few parties that may very well be etched indelibly in the history books. But here’s the ugly truth: throwing a party generates waste. Whether it’s an adult summer BBQ by the pool or a child’s birthday at the park, every event has the potential to generate enormous amounts of waste. The good news? If you plan ahead, you can eliminate a great deal of it and you can use the opportunity to educate and inspire your guests. Here are just a few tips I’ve learned over the years to keep a party as close to zero waste as possible. Invitations Think paper invitations add a nice touch by hand? Have you ever thought about the footprint? Thanks to a little tool called The Internet (I’m sure you’ve heard of it), you no longer have to drive to the store, purchase paper invitations (created by trees, heavy machinery, gasoline, chemicals, electricity, etc. and packed in unrecycled plastic before being shipped to the store by diesel truck) burn more gas on the drive home, fill out and stamp said invitations, and send them out to recipients using a fleet of trucks and airplanes. Plus, sending out an invitation through evite.com or some comparable site has the extra bonus of the “reminder” feature, as well as the ability to add an event directly to one’s digital calendar. Turns out a lot of people appreciate that. Venue Keep it simple. People love getting together with friends at the home or the park in the summertime. Pick a place that allows guests to be a part of nature. The added benefit of not having an event at a retail place is that you have control both over how the food is served and the waste is collected from an environmental perspective. Food Buy local! Use delicious whole foods that are in season. One rule of thumb is to use food items that “remember what they used to be.” Potato chips, for example, actually look like a slice of potato. Super spicy cheese blasted corn tubes…not so much. If you can, visit the farmer’s market to save on the footprint from shipment—and don’t forget a reusable bag! Drinks Whatever happened to the old tried and true pitcher? Sure, bottles of water are “convenient”, but they are also incredibly wasteful. Juice boxes, too, take a lot of energy to make. Try fresh squeezed lemonade in a pitcher, punch bowl or thermos instead. Add strawberry puree for some variety. It’s just novel enough these days that it will get a big “wow” from your guests. Cutlery and Plates Buying biodegradable and compostable plates, cups, cutlery and napkins these days is so much easier than it used to be. While they may be a little tricky to find at some of the chain retail stores, you can usually find them at the greener stores. And if you don’t know where to look, try online (The Internet, again!). They are not that much more expensive than plastic non-recyclable plates and cutlery, and are a far lighter toll on the landfill. Table Decorations Two pieces of advice for keeping table decorations “green” is to go for either plant matter or reusable. Flowers or branches are far nicer than balloons, for example. An old sheet that has been decorated with fabric markers or a bolt of cloth from the fabric store make for a far lovelier table setting than a sheet of brightly colored plastic. Gift Wrap Wrap your gift in a reusable bag, basket or fabric to avoid wrapping paper. Also, who doesn’t love a handmade card? Reuse and decorate old paper, trash bags and gift bags -- and even cut pictures from magazines to create a colorful collage. Get creative! And last, but definitely not least… Trash and Recycling Separating the trash from the recycling is so much easier than most people think. All you need to do is have two (or three) bags: one for real trash, one for recyclables, and one for compost. Label them so partygoers know what is expected of them. If you’re away from home and are not sure how to put out your bags effectively, consider purchasing a reusable pop-up style bin (called a ‘fling bin’) to make the sorting easier. These parties are also fun because you get to educate people on composting. I've actually had people say, “OK…I know the plate and cup goes in the compost bin...but what do I do with my left over food?” The hardest part about any party is remembering to just 'educate' your crowd. People aim to please especially when at a party so just telling them what your expectations are is more than half the battle. When there are no expectations, people always assume you are just tossing everything. I can't wait for a day where people expect to recycle and compost and if there is just trash, they pack stuff home to properly take care of it. And above all, with everything you buy for your party, ask yourself: do I need it? Can I reuse it? With a little planning, you can significantly cut down on the waste your next party generates. And that’s…something to celebrate.
Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookRecycling for the CommunityJune 17th, 2011 11:55am - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
Anyone who thinks recycling is a tedious endeavor should pay a visit to the annual Green Clean Up Event in Jamestown, CO. Jamestown is, quite simply, the most unique community of people I have ever had the opportunity to work with. Getting together with them sometimes feels more like hanging out with a bunch of naughty cousins than neighbors. Just about anything can happen. The set-up for the Green Clean Up alone was a blast. Not only was there fun and laughter all around, but it seemed there was no end to the hospitality of the community. People offered me everything from bagels and lox to food off the constantly going grill. We sat in a giant circle of 35+ chairs and talked well into the night by the light of an impressive bonfire. The main reason for my excitement, of course, was that all of this took place at the edge of Elysian Park, to where all of Green Girl’s electronics recycling profits from the Green Clean Up Event would be donated for some badly needed playground equipment for the children of the community. Green Girl partners exclusively with certified US electronics handlers to ensure that 100% of the electronics we recycle are handled appropriately, are broken down in America and never shipped overseas. I left early, but the party went well into the night. The next day was just as impressive. From early in the morning until mid-afternoon, a steady stream of people came to donate and to reuse. There was a table run by community artists to collect trash items that could be used for art, a swap & exchange area to help people discover treasure in other people’s trash, the Green Girl truck collecting electronics, single stream recycling, and CHARM (hard to recycle) items, a hazardous household waste collection area, and large roll-offs for the unsalvageable. When it was all over, I had everything from old monitors to clothes to Styrofoam #6 to old toilets to old bicycle tires. Phew! At the end, people packed up, cleaned up, and left the place as they had found it – as if it had never happened. It was unbelievable. At last count, Green Girl & Green Mountain Recycling is donating $431 for the playground fund to be used toward a set of swing sets, slides, or monkey bars. A plant sale at the Clean Up Event yielded $106 for the playground. For a community filled with bright children in need of a safe, energetic outlet, this money couldn’t be put to better use. Here is a list of some of the other stats from the event: Electronics: TV's & Monitors = 750 lbs Laptops/CPU's = 150 lbs Speakers/Stereos/Printers/etc.= 523 lbs All went to an ISO 9000 & ISO 1800 rated electronics recycler in Ft. Collins. Clothing: 3 55-gallon drums Foam:10 bags of #6 block Styrofoam Toilets: 2 Used Food Grade Oil: 53 lbs Cell Phones: 46 lbs Rubber Tires: 18 lbs Packing Peanuts: 7 40-gallon bags full All put to reuse through our artisan program and kept out of the landfill. Single-Stream Recycling: 1,945 lbs (one full truck load) Green Girl & Green Mountain Recycling Also Donated to the Event: Gas to run Trucks, Employee Time, Marketing time, etc. $400.00 for the playground fundIf you are interested in recycling your old electronics for a small fee to go toward the playground fund, please let me know right away. There is still time! You may also write a check made out to Green Girl Recycling, put “Elysian Park Donation” on the memo line, and we will make sure those funds get to the right place. Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookYour Old Electronics Could Save a LifeMay 11th, 2011 9:09pm - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
You already know that there is some magic in recycling. Plastic bottles, for example, can be turned into everything from fleece jackets to carpets to lawn furniture. But did you know that your old computer parts can be turned into a child’s smile? This summer, Green Girl & Green Mountain Recycling is turning your old broken down electronics into swing sets, slides and even medical aid for saving lives. How, you may ask, are we going to accomplish this green alchemy? By getting involved in two very cool community projects.
Green Girl Project #1: Medical Aid to Belize, Westminster, CO – May 13th & 14th
Electronics Recycling Event
Green Girl Project #2: Elysian Park Kids Playground, Jamestown, CO – June 4th
Green Clean Up Event Please come out and show your support for both of these amazing causes. You’ve got to get rid of that old stuff anyway. All you need to do is bring your old electronics, pay a small fee, and they will be off your hands and disposed of in a safe, earth friendly way. In turn, we will turn the profit from both of these events into tangible help for the children of our community and across the world. Recycling magic! We have been so fortunate with the community support we’ve been given. This spring, we’re giving back! Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookThe Green Girl Video – A Guest Blog by Erika RaeApril 16th, 2011 10:07am - Posted By: Erika Rae
Anyone who knows Bridget is aware of her superhero status. She runs an amazing business with a noble mission. She is an artist. She is a philanthropist. She is passionately loyal to her family and friends. She cooks gourmet meals, lays tile, hangs drywall, and xeriscapes her backyard all with a child strapped to her back and before lunch. I don’t think she has slept in about 4 years. I have photo evidence that she can fly. She can drive a trash truck, people. Story creation is my passion. I love exploring an idea, digging into characters, and, if everything aligns right, making people laugh. So when Bridget asked me to help her make the video for Green Girl, I was stoked. Not only would it be a chance to help put together her story, but I would get to follow her around and see firsthand just how she does it. I’ll admit it, I would get a chance to snoop. We started out at the Green Girl and Green Mountain Recycling Warehouse. My partner in this production, the lovely, edgy and super-talented podcast specialist Megan DiLullo, and I followed her around as she explained how the various components worked. She showed us how secure paper shredding works. She showed us her hoards of Styrofoam peanuts that she finds a way to give new life. She showed us her trucks, her containers, her neat stacks of materials all lined up and waiting to be recycled. Later, she took us to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) to show us how the materials get sorted. We watched as people picked through milk jugs and colorful bottles whizzing past them on conveyor belts. We watched one of her trucks make a drop-off (thanks, Matt!) and eagerly collected every square inch of footage we could get from the mountains of cardboard, aluminum cans and bottles within the facility. At one point, we were even escorted off the premises (OK, run off) by a man driving a zippy little vehicle, carrying loads of materials from one place to another. It was fantastic. We were officially like rock stars in her wake. From there I followed her and her team around as they did commercial pick-ups, residential pick-ups, and event pickups. I even followed her up to Nederland where I caught her on camera as she set up to collect recycling for the Frozen Dead Guy Days, an act that alone has ensured her sainthood with the amount of, um, accoutrements that must be sorted out of the recyclable materials after such an event. Truly, the knowledge she possesses about recycling and what happens to each and every material is enough to make the average person’s head spin. And throughout it all, her passion for what she does shines through. If you haven’t watched the video yet, I encourage you to do so. It’s a peek into the world of recycling and the journey Bridget has taken to build Green Girl into what it is today. Following her around and listening to her story may just be one of the most amazing experiences I have had in my life, and truth be told, I’m exhausted. The woman is pure energy. Erika Rae is the founding editor of 2 Cups of Copy, which provides professional writing and social media services to businesses and individuals. She is also nonfiction editor and contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookGreen Girl ReportingFebruary 16th, 2011 8:38am - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
Every year at this time, my dining table turns into a mountain of papers as a whole new batch of year-end reports makes its way (somewhat miraculously) out the door. What a process! The folding and signing alone takes days. Luckily, my family is somewhat good-natured about having to eat elsewhere while stacks and stacks of neatly folded reports grow up down and sideways through the room. At the end of it all, it was with great excitement that I sent off these reports. This year, in particular, I had so many cool things to tell everybody about 2010 for Green Girl – not least of which was about the launch of this our new Web site and blog! We were humbled to report the receipt of two honors this last year. In May we were awarded an Eco Hero Award from the Boulder County Business Report, complete with a huge article and photograph. Then, in July, we were listed as a Mercury 100 Fastest Growing Company. In addition, we were pleased to announce that we have been busy updating. Earlier in the year, we began replacing all of our single-stream poly carts in Boulder County with funds we received through a Resource Conservation Grant awarded in 2009. We scrubbed out each cart and stuck new labels on them listing the new materials we are able to now haul (plastics #1-7 and attached water bottle caps!). We are so excited to be able to haul such a wide variety of recyclables for our customers, including all electronics, small appliances, packing peanuts, #6 Styrofoam block, books, wood scrap, wood pallets of all sizes, in addition to the usual. We even offer a shredding service for sensitive materials. We can help people turn a special private event into a zero-waste event – and will even do free recycling/garbage audits for anyone who wants to green-up. Often, when an office changes old habits and truly begins to recycle all materials, they can offset garbage costs, which in turn can cover most recycling services. As always, if you refer us to somebody who uses our service, we will gladly give you a credit on your next month’s recycling bill! It is because of the commitment of our customers that we have been able to come so far this last year and have made it the greenest year to date. Our customers saved 1852 tons of recycling last year alone! If you haven’t done so yet, please follow us on Twitter @GREENGRLRECYCLE or see what we are up to and connect with us on Facebook @Green Girl Recycling. One of the things we should have ready for you soon is a new short video explaining Green Girl’s recycling process. Stay tuned for that and more. Something exciting is always happening – don’t miss out! Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookPacking Peanuts: The Gift (Around the Gift) That Keeps on Giving...January 13th, 2011 5:38pm - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
The holidays are over and if you’re anything like me, you’ve been left with a house and heart blessed with the warmth of friends and far too many generous gifts. Of course, if you’re anything like me you have also been left with the byproduct of so many generous gifts: an enormous collection of packing peanuts. It’s not necessarily the gift-giver’s fault. So often these static-filled wonders get stuffed into boxes of cheer ordered online so that the contents don’t shift during shipping. By the time they reach your house they have been charged by friction and dry air and are fully prepared to literally jump from the box and attach themselves to your eager, unsuspecting person: the perfect accessory for any hand embroidered reindeer sweater in need of a touch of relentless snow. But then what? Once you’ve managed to un-stick yourself from the mess, what do you do with all those peanuts? If you’re lucky, you’ve been the recipient of the variety of packing peanuts made from vegetable matter: a cornstarch or wheat derivative. If you’re unsure, stick one under the faucet and see if it starts to dissolve. If so, these are a no-brainer. You can literally dump them in the sink and let them dissolve down the drain or heap them onto your compost pile. While I would not recommend it due to obvious hygiene reasons, you can even eat them. Sprinkle some cheese powder on them and serve them to surprise guests. I’m told they taste like cheese puffs. If they don’t pass the dissolve test, though, you’re faced with a conundrum. Throw them away and they get put in a landfill. They may be comprised of about 90% air, but the oil-based polystyrene literally takes hundreds of years to decompose. Do pay attention to the color coding. If they are green, it means that they were created by recycled materials and will break down in the environment after five years or less if exposed to organic material. White or pink means that the materials used to create the peanuts were at least 70% raw (unrecycled). In addition, pink means that they’ve been treated with chemicals that help prevent static cling (and therefore a poor choice on two counts for snowballs for the reindeer sweater). The color tells a lot about how they were made, but the destruction verdict is still the same: non-recyclable. And if you can’t recycle them, then there is only one thing left to do: reuse them. Part of the great thing about running Green Girl is that I’ve had the opportunity to intercept a lot of these peanuts that would otherwise be on their way to the landfill. Shipping companies, artists and other companies who ship in large quantities - such as Lumia Organics - come to our warehouse and pick them up. The peanuts have already been created and now they are being given a second, third or even tenth life. There are a lot of ideas floating around on the Web on how you can even reuse packing peanuts at home: Reuse them for your own shipping needs: Store them in a large, dry bag in your garage and use as needed. Make a pet pillow: Is the stuffing in your zippered pet pillow beyond help? Replace it with polystyrene peanuts! Drainage for plant containers: Line the bottom of your planters with them instead of rocks. Plus, they weigh less than rocks, so planters are easier to move. Insulate your cooler: If you stuff a bag full of peanuts into your cooler, it will help the ice last longer. Floating keys: If you’re heading out on a river trip or to the beach, string some peanuts together and fasten them onto your keychain to keep it from sinking. Costume stuffing: Scarecrows and Santas alike all could use a little stuffing now and then. For the more creative among us, here’s a fresh take on a chandelier. And while you wouldn’t want to use packing peanuts as home insulation as they are not fire retardant, that didn’t stop this 12-year-old boy from making an insulated igloo out of them. But if you lack quite that much creativity, most shipping or mailing companies such as PacMail and the like eagerly accept donations over the counter. And if you NEED packing peanuts, by all means - give us a call at Green Girl and they're yours for the taking. Chances are...we'll have more than you'll need! Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 0 Comment(s) | Rating: 0 of 5 | Share: Twitter, FacebookLoving What I DoNovember 27th, 2010 10:25pm - Posted By: Bridget Johnson
It has been so amazing to be a part of a growing green movement and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Recently, Green Girl Recycling was written up in the Boulder County Business Report. The reporter, Beth Edwards, wrote a lovely and concise segment on how Green Girl got started. Reading it back through her eyes has given me a renewed perspective on just how far we’ve come. Starting in high school I collected aluminum cans from the surrounding farms in upstate New York. Later, in college, I would go into the boys’ dorms and collect beer cans by the garbage bag full to help fund Spring Break. When I moved to Colorado, it seemed like the most natural thing in the world to continue on that path. I lived on Sugarloaf Mountain at the time where there was no regular recycling service. So, for the cost of gas money, I would pack up my Jeep with recyclables from the neighbors and then sneak the recycling into the drop-off at Eco-Cycle under the cover of night. I was worried that they would force me to pay to drop off so much at a time, so when Eric Lombardi caught me at it on a rare daytime drop-off, I just knew it was over. He walked over to me and eyed my huge load of recyclables. “That’s an awful lot of recycling for one girl,” he said. “How often do you drop this stuff off?” I gulped hard and explained to him what I was doing. To my surprise, he then offered to pay for the recyclables, and not the other way around. Before long, I was picking up materials from 120 residences and commercial buildings. I had recruited Matt to work for me full-time by then (I made him give up his painting business to help me grow). He drove a black ‘93 Chevy diesel truck and I drove an old white 78' Ford (I still have that one - "Ol' Whitey"!). The year was 2003. In 2004 we were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to purchase Green Mountain Recycling from Brad Landers who was looking to grow more into a bio-diesel fuel business. We tripled in size adding a large commercial recycling base to our business and it was then that we hired our first 'real' employee and also moved into our warehouse located down in Longmont. Then in 2008 when the economy was just bottoming out, we were fortunate to again be in a good position to form alliances with Waste-Not Recycling (Anita Comer) and acquire over 400 accounts that Waste-Not was looking to redirect as their business plan had shifted. I think you have to be part crazy and really good at dealing with stressful situations to own and run a recycling company (and remain in business after twelve years!). Thank God we have always charged a little for our convenient front-door recycling services because when the finance industry crashed and Boulder County (Eco-Cycle runs the facility) could no longer pay for any tipping fees for recyclables - we were able to just stay afloat and move a little more into areas like electronics recycling, hard-to-recycle items (such as wood pallets, scrap metals, etc.), and of course data destruction (shredding services of sensitive paper materials). My father told me when I was little that it didn't matter what I 'did' in life, as long as I liked it: “If you love what you do, the money will come." I'm so glad he was right—although I believe you don't get into recycling for money, it will eventually follow (ha ha –after LOTS of hard work). You get into it because it feels so right. I love that when I wake up each day, I am making a difference. So, at this time of Thanksgiving, I want to thank all of YOU who have helped foster this amazing movement by choosing Green Girl Recycling. Together we are working toward the greater purpose of keeping our world green and healthy for the generations to come. Posted in: NoneView / Add Comment | 1 Comment(s) | Rating: 5 of 5 | Share: Twitter, Facebook |
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