Wednesday, February 25, 2009

AZDS Provides Green Solution for the NBA

Greetings all,



So much has changed since our last update. In December, we were contacted by the NBA, yes, National Basketball Association, to help them with a single night event. They wanted AZ Docushred to recycle all the material produced from the event. We recycled plastic bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard, and food scraps. Our backend recyclers were readily available to handle the output, but the food scraps were a challenge. We found a hog/goat rescue farm to take the food scraps. Commercial farms could not take it.



A few days after we solidified the one night event, the NBA called and wanted AZDS to handle the entire Block Party from pre-event to post-event. This was for the NBA All Star week in mid February. We setup five recycle stations in the same manner as the Friday night event, staffed them, and sorted the material. The NBA sent glowing remarks on the execution and how clean we kept the Block Party.



Overall, the Friday night event resulted in only 33% going to the landfill. The other 67% was recycled accordingly. The Block Party did not show the favorable results we anticpated. 32% was recycled and the other 68% went to the landfill.



We are now a "green" company that has the NBA as a client. Toodles.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Green Status Update

Hope everyone is having a good start to the new year. With our new president taking bold actions in his first week, things look promising. Lisa and I feel the same with AZ Docushred. The past month has left us believing that there are people like us who want to succeed, are not afraid to work hard, and network like crazy. We have a lot of pokers in the fire.

We secured a 2 good size contracts for our recycling services for a large client in February. This will stretch us to implement good planning and execution. We have been asked to go from start to finish to make sure all recycable material does not go into the landfill. AZDS is truly standing by our Zero Landfill policy.

AZDS is starting to work with organic farms to see if there is market for compost/soil generation for them to use. Also, we are looking at pulerizing glass for other uses as well.

Signing off and will write soon.