Happy New Year

Hope everyone that reads this had a good holiday season! Can't believe that 2009 is coming fast. We continue to work to get leads for the business. Being on the Light Rail route (office location), we were afforded the opportunity have an expo booth at the Dec. 27 MTA Kick off celebration in downtowm Phoenix. People would come to our booth and ask questions about our company. I had an interesting fellow from the US Census come to me and ask about our servcies. He invited me to the official kickoff of the Census process here in Phoenix. For those that don't know, the US takes an offical census of people every 10 years. I am meeting the decision maker and hopefully can land that job after the Census is taken. Still working on the large client for getting rid of food scraps. My teenage daughter and friends will work this event separating scraps from plates, etc. Alex wants to be eco-friendly, sometimes its not all attractive the work that needs to be done....... Later.

Season's Greetings All

Just a couple of lines to let you know how things are going with AZDS. We have expanded into the logistics of the catering world and recycling. We are working with one major client on their food scraps for recycle. I found a rescue hog/pig farm that will take the used food. Plateware made from compressed leaves and sugar kane utensils, who would have thought. I was also presented with a request for vinyl banner recycling. In our network, I found a person that will take them to give a vocational school and what can't be used, will be made into wheelchair liners for the handicapped. Who would have "thunk" that from a document destruction company.
Toodles.....for now.

Starting anew

Just some random thoughts on where the company is at and things in general. When Lisa asked me to come on board to start the business, I thought that we would only be focused on document shredding and electronic media recycling. What I have found is that there is a whole new world out there with recycling, and reuse. One area that we have expanded is the collection of water bottles and aluminum cans at client sites. This is really taken off with two clients using this service. We are working with another client that doesn't want food scraps going to the landfill. The two options I found are composting or feeding livestock. I learned more about composting that I ever wanted to and am comfortable explaining what should go into a compost pile and what shouldn't. Did you know what 'bokashi' is? Google it. Ok, I tell you. It is the natural composting meat, fish, dairy products using enzymes. Crazy that I know that now coming from the IT world. I have been able to share this information with St. Mary's food bank who are trying to use all their products and be green. Anyway, don't know how long I should write as this is probably boring. Will update in a few days. Chris.

Hello - First Ever Blog

First time run for blogging. Hope all is well with everyone.