How We Are a Green Company

Since 1995 our company has been taken great efforts to recycle to reduce our carbon foot print, and this is how we do it!

Recycling on Job Sites

When we do a job for you & there is debris to remove from the site; it is demoed (i.e. old walkway, decks, stoops, etc), separate from other debris, & taken back to our shop yard or to the necessary facilities, like The Loading Dock.

At our shop yard we have different areas for different debris - concrete, natural waste, fill dirt, re-usable dirt, & pallets.

We keep most of our leftover material (brick & stone) from jobs and try to work them into future jobs. We can also offer discounts on these materials for pick up only.

Contact us for more details: pallets, fill dirt, old concrete brick/fill material, leftover materials, or plastic plant pots.

Recycling in The Office

Much of our office is electronic, however, we realized years ago that we use A LOT of paper products. Between contracts, estimates, pictures, invoices, statements...and more...it could be a tremendous waste...but we don't let that happen. This is how:

• We have our faxes (junk or not) come into a computer and then we only print out what we need
• We re-use scrap paper for messages and sketching pads
• We have started emailing bills to clients instead of printing them, putting them in an envelope, stamping them and mailing them.
• We do 90% of our bill payment online
• We take all our printer cartridges back to Office Depot to recycle.
• We give all our old computers to the Providence Center. And what they don’t want we take to electronic recycling facilities.

Recycle at our Shop

So much waste comes from our workers, job orders, job sites, and boxes from purchases. We try to separate everything as best we can and put it out on the curb.

As you can see in the picture, ALL employees recycle. It's just better for everyone!

Though we don't use a lot of it, "hazardous waste" does come up:

• Oil from the trucks
• Glue/primer from pipe jobs,
• Stain from fencing/deck jobs, etc.
• All of this is disposed of on the Hazardous waste days at our local dump.
• We even take in our old batteries from our digital cameras, timers, radios, and cell phone.
• We do not use dumpsters! All of our waste from jobs is separated an disposed of as previously explained

Links to other "Green" companies we work with:

West Annapolis Green Festival - Great festival in Annapolis with a focus on Re-claimed items
Historic Annapolis Foundation - They have a green conference and provide information about green roofs and buildings in our area
Nor—Store in Baltimore that re-claims items and makes them into unique and usable works of art.
Pervious Pavement
Rain Barrels Annapolis
Woolly Pocket
More links to come!!