CONSULTING
The main focus of our company is helping to reduce the costs of waste disposal to our customers. This is accomplished by beneficially reusing and recycling materials that would be land disposed (land filled).
Since the implementation of our business model we have successfully diverted over 16,000,000 pounds of construction scrap from ending up in landfill. In addition to materials from the construction industry, we also work with manufacturing, distribution, retail, wholesale, schools, churches and other entities to organize and restructure the way their typical waste streams are handled.
The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program offers a great outline for integrating energy savings programs, such as enhanced use of materials and resources. We use these guidelines, which were developed by the United States Green Building Council and the US EPA, to provide effective goals and benchmarks for our programs. LEED principles are about increasing and maintaining sustainable values in the already existing environment.
People, Profit, Planet
Evaluating the needs and potential savings in waste management programs for our clientele is job priority number one. In the past we have had successes and failures. Our successes offer us opportunities and lessons that we use to improve methods, and our failures teach us more about what we need in order to achieve success.
Solutions for Business and Industry
Whether it’s shipping materials and cardboard, plastic purge, or just office paper, Green Recycling Solutions has a solution to fit every business.
These products are brought to our warehouse and packaged for transport to be used as feed-stock in re-manufactured or recycled new materials.
For example:
Paper from office waste is often shredded and baled. Twenty ton loads are then transported to mills for use in re-manufactured paper products such as: ledger paper, paper towels, and tissue.
Cardboard containers are compressed and formed into half ton bales, loaded onto a trailer, and hauled to a processing plant where they are ground, pulped and used in the manufacturing of new cardboard materials.
Plastic purge pellets, spools, off-cuts, and product overruns are packed into four yard gay-lords, plastic films and straps are baled for shipment. they are then sent to facilities where they will be used in the manufacturing of new plastics.
We offer chain of custody documentation, documents of destruction, and tracking for Lean Manufacturing, ISO commitments, and other environmental tracking.
Solutions for Construction
We partner with home-builders to increase efficiency, while at the same time decreasing the amount of waste that is land-disposed. In doing so, we have successfully eliminated over 18,000,000 pounds of construction scrap from the waste stream that would normally have been land-filled. Through our unique four-step collection process for residential builders we also eliminate the need for dumpsters entirely.
The construction scrap is sorted and staged in the garage by the contractors, and then we retrieve it as they finish each stage as follows:
Frame: All framing scrap, including stick and sheet lumber are removed during the first stage.
Siding/Mechanical: All vinyl siding scrap, PVC, and cardboard boxes from siding and utility installation are removed during the second stage.
Drywall: All drywall scrap, boxes, and left over materials are removed during the third stage.
Final: And finally all remaining construction scrap such as cardboard boxes and packing materials from cabinet and hardware installation, as well as molding scraps and miscellaneous remaining lumber are removed.
Once at our facility: The wood scraps are chipped to be used as feed stock for landscape mulch, re-manufactured for wood products such as particle board, or pelletized for heating purposes. Drywall can be used as an industrial abrasive, or as an absorbent agent. Vinyl and PVC scrap is melted down and is then used in the thermo-formation of new vinyl siding and PVC items.