Our businesses exist to benefit society.

Our AIM to Make a Difference program warehouses our customers’ surplus furniture that would otherwise be headed for the landfill and repurpose that furniture, for free, to Arizona nonprofits. Since 2008, 110 organizations have received over $1,000,000 worth of furniture though our program. AIM to Make a Difference has become a national model copied by…

Our packaging material is a minimum of 100% recycled corrugated cardboard with 30% post consumer, although most are 100% post-consumer waste. Our packaging peanuts are made of plant based materials (dissolve in water) or salvaged and cleaned from other companies that we collect from inbound materials. Our plastic pallet wrap is recyclable. Our bottle shipper…

The Cultivating Good Water program is based on national and planetary documents and promotes the company’s social-environmental initiatives related to the conservation of natural resources. Its focus is on the quality and quantity of water and on people’s quality of life. The name Cultivating Good Water highlights the idea that, just like we cultivate the…

If you’re around DUMBO, Brooklyn on a Friday morning, you just might stumble upon a strange and seemingly silly sight: a small group of Etsy Admin on bikes, outfitted in full-body jumpsuits and helmets, about to embark on what’s become a routine mission – taking our office compost to the farm. They ride alongside the…

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.

Guayakí recycles all office and scrap paper, cardboard, cans, bottles, and plastic in the blue bin. We salvage and recycle any metal or wood waste; as well as obsolete or unusable electronic and computer components to prevent adding heavy metals to landfills. In our office, we “recycle, reduce, and re-use” as a daily practice. Real…

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…

Their purpose is to advise the company on our mission to inspire and reward smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future. As we grew our business, creating innovative partnerships, expanding our digital reach and venturing into new conservation and sustainability arenas, we realized it was critical that our long-term commitment to environmental stewardship and…

We partner with a local food shelf to reuse the cardboard boxes from their food shipments for shipping our products. We partner with a local business to reuse their bubble wrap in our packaging. The bubble wrap was being discarded into the dumpster. Not a bad way to recycle and reduce shipping costs!

We take trash seriously. Every night we weigh our landfill waste, e-waste, recycling, and compost at each of our primary office locations. We even built our own dumpster scales to facilitate these measurements. Continuous tracking helps us measure the effects of programs designed to lower our overall waste and increase recycling and compost rates. For…