Buisness, Schools, Events
Businesses, farms and schools are regulated differently than homeowners when disposing of waste and therefore must utilize licensed contractors.
Borrow
our bins for your next Event! Please complete and return this entire
application at least 14 days prior to your event.
Recycling Services
Contact your waste hauler or look in the Yellow Pages under ‘rubbish & garbage removal’ for companies who may pick up your recyclable wastes.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment Recycled Materials Market Directory lists companies who provide recycling services for various materials around the state.
Download the EPA Business Guide to Reducing Solid Waste
The following companies offer recycling of common buisness wastes.
| Company | Location | Phone | Link | ||
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Recycling Concepts | N/A | 616.942.8888 | N/A | Accepts post-industrial plastics and other materials for recycling. |
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Bata Plastics | N/A | 616.452.5300 | N/A | Accepts post-industrial plastics for recycling. |
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Comprenew | 629 Ionia Avenue, Grand Rapids |
616.451.4400 | Website | Electronics Recycling. Businesses must call first for availability and instructions. |
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Valley City Environmental | 1040 Market Avenue Grand Rapids |
616.235.1500 | N/A | Electronics Recycling. |
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Waste Management eScrapTracker | N/A | N/A | Website | |
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Green2LiveClean | Atlanta, GA | N/A | Website | FREE electronics recycling services for companies located throughout the United States. NO CHARGE for pick up & delivery |
Hazardous Waste Disposal
Look in the Yellow Pages under ‘environmental & ecological services’ or ‘hazardous waste.’
| Company | Location | Phone | Link | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment | N/A | 1.800.662.9278 | N/A | Grand Rapids District Office, 616.356.0500. |
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Michigan Clean Sweep | N/A | Scott Schroeder, Ottawa County Clean Sweep, 616.393.5645 Elizabeth Robins, Ionia County Clean Sweep, 616.527.8219 |
N/A | Free service for farms only; accepts banned, unused and unusable pesticides, fertilizers & mercury from farms. |
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Valley City Environmental Services | N/A | 616.235.1500 | Website | Fluorescent Light Bulb Disposal |
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Waste Management LampTracker | N/A | N/A | Website | Fluorescent Light Bulb Disposal |
Managing Your Hazardous Waste - A Guide for Small Buisnesses (PDF)
Are you a company that works with small and large companies in Kent County to responsibly dispose of fluorescent light bulbs? Contact us to get your name on this list!
'Greening Your Grounds'
Many local businesses & schools have already taken steps to reduce waste and become more sustainable in their everyday activities. Click on the businesses below to read about their 'greening' successes - maybe there are some ideas you can implement in your business or school too!
Have you made changes in your business or school to help you 'Green Your Grounds'? Here's your chance to brag! Sign up to be listed as one of our 'Greening Your Grounds' success stories!
Spectrum
Health Reduces Waste!
Grand Valley State University (Pew Campus)
The New
Look of School Milk at Dexter Community Schools
Woodcreek Magnet
School Receives Award for Innovative and Creative Composting Project
Helping
Your School 'Go Green'
There are many other programs that are available to schools to help in your 'greening' efforts. Do you know of one not listed here? Contact us!
Resources
Master Business Recycler Manual
Businesses today are constantly looking for ways to be lean and more profitable
in their everyday operations. The Master Business Recycler Manual (PDF) gives
experienced recyclers new ideas for their programs and gives those new to
the program step-by-step instructions to evaluate their waste stream, reduce
their waste, design a recycling program and implement it effectively.
Michigan
Retired Engineer Technical Assistance Program (RETAP)
RETAP provides free, confidential, onsite pollution prevention and energy
efficiency assessments to businesses (with 500 or fewer employees in Michigan)
and institutions of any size. To date, RETAP has conducted over 1225 assessments,
with the capacity to assess 125 facilities per year. For each assessment,
the RETAP assembles a team of retired engineers appropriate for the operations
of the facility to be assessed.
Currently, 51 retired engineers participate in the RETAP, each having 30-40 years of professional experience. For additional information or to request a RETAP assessment, please contact David Herb at 517-241-8176 or herbdw@michigan.gov.
Small
Business Pollution Prevention Loan Program
The P2 Loan Program provides loans of up to $400,000 at an interest rate
of 5% or less to existing, independently owned businesses with 500 or fewer
full time employees. Eligible projects include those that eliminate or reduce
waste at the business location, result in environmentally sound reuse and
recycling of the loan applicant's generated wastes, conserve energy or water
on-site, or are a qualified agricultural energy production system.
Print free labels for your recycling bins!
EPA Business Guide to Reducing Solid Waste
Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment
Setting Up A Business Recycling Program
Michigan School Recycling Programs, Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment
