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Garten Zero Waste Events
Garten Zero Waste Events Project helps people reduce and recycle waste. However, we add another unique layer of service. We not only provide the public access to effective means to recycle/compost at gatherings and events – but we enable people with disabilities to help educate the general public on various aspects of reducing, reusing and recycling.
MINIMIZING OUR COMMUNITY’S WASTE STREAM. Garten Zero Waste Events Project will help reduce flow of trash to limited disposable resources. Oregon led the way in the 1970’s, and today recycling has become a national habit – a ritual now practiced by over 100 million people every day. Yet recycling alone will not end our dependency on landfills and incinerators, nor reverse the rapid depletion of our natural resources and resulting energy consumption. Rather than using our region’s dollars to build new landfills or incinerators, Garten’s Zero Waste Events Project represents an investment in reducing, recycling and composting items previously regarded merely as items to be discarded and disposed. Supporting Garten Zero Waste Events will reduce your costs by eliminating unnecessary trash disposal systems.
EMPLOYING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. The Zero Waste Event project is staffed by people who fulfill Garten’s mission. They interface with the general public and educate them on ways to walk more lightly on the earth. Garten Services exists to provide jobs for people with disabilities and has successfully fulfilled this mission since 1970. Our new Zero Waste Events Project is staffed by a team of zero waste workers and project coordinator / job coach, giving you the comfort and confidence that your event will result in a superior sustainability footprint.
CREATING JOBS. Garten is creating jobs by directing our precious human resources to the task of repurposing waste, rather than sending it ito landfills. Good for the community, good for the environment, good for people with disabilities.
SEEING THINGS A NEW WAY. “Zero waste” is a new way of looking at our community’s waste stream. Instead of seeing used materials as garbage in need of disposal, discarded items can instead be seen as valuable resources. These items represent jobs for people with disabilities, financial opportunity, personal independence – and raw material for new products or other purposes.
DEMONSTRATING OUR DEDICATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Garten Services is committed to sustaining the environment and our community. You can demonstrate your commitment to our environment by using our zero waste services at your events or gatherings. Garten makes it easy for you. Choose from four levels of service ranging from simply borrowing our recycling containers, to letting Garten do it all including the sorting and transporting for you. A menu of available services is on the back page. Garten’s Zero Waste Project will help our community be recognized as an environmental community. We help people who want to make a positive environmental action know how to do it. Ultimately, everyone “wins”.
TREAD LIGHTLY
Garten has always been a leader in recycling services.
Now we offer a comprehensive resource recovery service that moves well beyond basic recycling and will dramatically reduce waste while creating new jobs.
Turn your next event into a zero-waste event with Garten. You can make a difference. We’ll make it easy.
TIERS OF SERVICE
For more information, contact:
Judi Richards
Garten Zero Waste Events Coordinator
Garten Services, Inc.
(503) 581-4472, ext. 3901
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John Matthews
Sustainability Coordinator
Garten Services, Inc.
(503) 581-4472, ext. 3303
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