Communities We Serve
Recology strives to provide excellent services. We also endeavor to support the communities we serve in many other ways. We support small businesses by purchasing local goods and services whenever possible and by hiring directly from the communities we serve. We are also committed to community involvement through a variety of education, art, and volunteering programs.
Education
Our education programs increase public awareness about resource recovery, bring together employees from all levels of the organization, expand our sense of community, and enable the public to see their trash in a different light.
Art at Recology
Artist in Residence Program (AIR)
Since its founding 20 years ago, the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program has supported more than one hundred professional and student artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been the subject of national and international press. Each year more than 5,000 children and adults visit art exhibitions and attend educational tours that allow artist to interact with the public while teaching important lessons about recycling and reuse. AIR in an award-winning program that was established in 1990. The program hosts professional, full-time artists for four-months and provides six artists per year with access to materials that would have otherwise gone to a landfill or recycling facility, a stipend, and exhibition space. Our program was honored with the Acterra 2009 Business Environmental Award for its leadership in Environmental & Sustainability Education.
Five Artists Chosen to Create Art from Discarded Material
May 11, 2011 (Portland, OR): Five Oregon artists have been selected to participate in the Pacific Northwest Art Program (PNAP), a new collaborative project developed by Recology, an employee-owned company that manages a variety of resource recovery facilities; Cracked Pots, Inc. an environmental arts organization; and Metro, the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area. The goal of the program is to educate the public about recycling, reuse and resource conservation while supporting the local art community and diverting materials from landfills.
Since its founding 20 years ago, the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program has supported more than one hundred professional and student artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been the subject of national and international press. Each year more than 5,000 children and adults visit art exhibitions and attend educational tours that allow artist to interact with the public while teaching important lessons about recycling and reuse. AIR in an award-winning program that was established in 1990. The program hosts professional, full-time artists for four-months and provides six artists per year with access to materials that would have otherwise gone to a landfill or recycling facility, a stipend, and exhibition space. Our program was honored with the Acterra 2009 Business Environmental Award for its leadership in Environmental & Sustainability Education.
Five Artists Chosen to Create Art from Discarded Material
May 11, 2011 (Portland, OR): Five Oregon artists have been selected to participate in the Pacific Northwest Art Program (PNAP), a new collaborative project developed by Recology, an employee-owned company that manages a variety of resource recovery facilities; Cracked Pots, Inc. an environmental arts organization; and Metro, the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area. The goal of the program is to educate the public about recycling, reuse and resource conservation while supporting the local art community and diverting materials from landfills.
View some of the art made by artists at Recology on Flickr
Purchase books about art at Recology
Purchase books about art at Recology
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Art at the Dump: The Artist in Residence Program and Environmental Learning Center at Recology |
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Recology Sketchbook: Portraits and Stories by Bill Russell of the Artist in Residence Program |
Volunteering
Recology's employees do a tremendous job in volunteering their own time and resources to improve communities. Each Recology company provides our customers with recycling help and environmental outreach programs aimed at continuously increasing recycling and diversion efforts. These programs include informational and hands-on educational efforts to help customers understand and participate in our collection and recycling programs, and provide partnerships with schools, community, and non-profit organizations.
Past volunteer projects have included providing food service to the homeless; applying recycled paint and other supplies reclaimed from the waste stream to a child care center and shelter for recovering addicts; collecting books, clothing and food for economically disadvantaged families here and abroad; creating a safe and sustainable landscaped playground for underprivileged youth; and assisting a municipal rose garden win the coveted status of "America's Best Rose Garden".
Past volunteer projects have included providing food service to the homeless; applying recycled paint and other supplies reclaimed from the waste stream to a child care center and shelter for recovering addicts; collecting books, clothing and food for economically disadvantaged families here and abroad; creating a safe and sustainable landscaped playground for underprivileged youth; and assisting a municipal rose garden win the coveted status of "America's Best Rose Garden".
Our Employees
Recology is committed to facilitating continuous education and training for our employees, and to fostering an involved and inclusive workforce. Recology employees understand the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling, and are empowered to transform their places of work, homes, and communities.
Recology is an employee-owned company.
Recology is an employee-owned company.
