Did you know that the US’s first comprehensive urban organics collection was pioneered by Recology? By composting yard trimmings and food scraps, Recology helps ensure that organic material is put to the best and highest use possible. Last year alone they composted 1.1 billion lbs of yard trimmings and food scraps, sold 296 million pounds…

Did you know that more than five generations ago, before recycling became fashionable or mandated by law, Recology was a pioneer in the industry? Recology believes it is everyone’s responsibility to protect the environment and create a sustainable planet. To accomplish this, Recology educates the general public and their employees about waste reduction practices. They…

We provide our employees with an employee assistance program that can be used by them and any member of their household. It is an 800 number that employees can call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Licensed counselors answer the phone and can assist employees with confidential counseling, assessment, referrals, and crisis intervention.

In order to support the employee quality of life, our Oregon office has a “Walkstation Treadmill Desk”. This “Walkstation Treadmill Desk” is whisper-quiet for the office environment and allows employees to sit, stand or walk and work. Employees can exercise while at work, increasing good health habits to sedentary workers. Movement improves brain function, mental…

Recology encourages each subsidiary company to engage in extensive cross-training of its office personnel such that employees are able to be versed in multiple job functions (example: Customer Service Representative cross-training as an Accounting Clerk). Through this cross-training, employees are exposed to various facets of the company and, through that, may encourage such employees to…

Employees are encouraged to provide feedback to their managers regarding their professional goals. With this information, managers are able to work with employees to determine a development plan that will facilitate such goals. This development plan is memorialized within an employee’s annual performance appraisal and the plan is reviewed on a regular basis by the…

A major contributor to our employees feeling empowered is our ESOP—Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Recology has a long history of employee ownership, dating back to the early employee cooperatives in 1921. As Mark Lomele, our Chief Financial Officer, likes to say, “We were an ESOP before there were ESOPs.” Today we are the largest employee…

Recology has helped San Francisco achieve an 80 percent landfill diversion rate, setting national recycling and compost rate records as the highest of any city in North America. Recology is on a mission to redefine the waste industry by making the best and highest use of all resources. In turn, finding new ways to process…

The Recology corporate office is decorated with art created by local artists participating in the Artists in Residence Program. The artwork is made from recycled items from the SF Resource Recovery Center, giving new life to discarded materials. The art educates employees and visitors on the usefulness of materials that are often thrown away.

Recology’s 2014-2018 Strategic Plan was publsihed in 2013 to guide the company in meeting our mission of ZERO WASTE in San Francisco by 2020. We formed a Strategic Plan Oversight Committee (SPOC) to be responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Strategic Plan. Recology’s Strategic Plan incorporates goals and milestones that will be tracked, while…

We painted the inside of our Oregon office with Recycled paint produced by Metro. By using and supporting Metro’s efforts to recycle leftover paint, we are helping organizations around the world save more than 64 million gallons from going to the landfill.