Local Community Involvement
Recycling is quickly becoming a way of life! That’s why Waste Management, the Paradise Valley School District, and the Arizona Diamondbacks teamed up for the first annual Recycling Challenge. Fifth-grade students district-wide competed to see which class could build the best “new” product utilizing recycled materials they collected from home. Here are the contest winners.
1st Place: The Waste Management Boat
Two Whispering Wind Academy Science classes took home the grand prize for this amazing boat shaped like a Waste Management truck. All 60 students got a pizza party and D-Backs tickets. The students even tested it out on Lake Pleasant to make sure it worked properly!
2nd Place: Recycled Decorator Bags
5th Graders at Desert Cove Elementary got 2nd place for their line of beach bags made from recycled materials. They also enjoyed a pizza party, courtesy of Waste Management. The top two entries were showcased at Chase Field during a Dbacks game.
Waste Management of Arizona took part in several Earth Day events to help educate the community about all of our sustainability initiatives and to reinforce the importance of recycling. Here are some of the event highlights!
Keep Phoenix Beautiful’s Earth Day Event, 2010
Waste Management joined forces with Keep Phoenix Beautiful to sponsor the biggest Earth Day event in the Valley of the Sun. Cesar Chavez Park in Downtown Phoenix came alive with earth-friendly offerings and businesses that were there to showcase their “green” programs.
Earth Day Shred-A-Thon, Phoenix
Waste Management teamed up with the Children’s Museum of Phoenix and ABCO Recycling to host a free Shred-A-Thon on Earth Day. More than 50 cars stopped by and the museum was packed as busloads of students checked out all the museum has to offer.
Earth Day Shred-A-Thon, Tucson
Our Tucson Recycling Facility also hosted a Shred-A-Thon and collected nearly 3 tons of material—that’s enough paper to save 70 trees and more than 20-thousand gallons of water!
Earth Day Expo, Sedona
Waste Management’s new Solar Powered Trash Compactors were front and center at Sedona’s Earth Day celebration. The event featured local green businesses, as well as plenty of organic food and drinks!
Recycling Innovation
This “Crowd Pleaser” Port-O-Let was headed for the landfill, but employees at the 7th Avenue Transfer Station in Phoenix had something else in mind—they renovated the entire building to make a fully functional scale house. Talk about thinking outside the box…
CASS Charity Event
The WMAZ team came out in full force to help the homeless over the holidays. More than a hundred volunteers and family members volunteered on Thanksgiving Day to help the residents of the Central Arizona Shelter Services Vista Colina family shelter. The volunteers served turkey dinner, and staffed several craft stations for the kids.
Marana Food Drive
The WM Southern Arizona team stepped up this year when they heard about a food shortage at the Marana Food Bank. The team launched the “Pound For Pound” challenge—for every pound of food donated, WMAZ also donated a pound. In all, we raised more than 20,000 pounds of food.
Habitat for Humanity Green Build
Waste Management teamed up with Habitat for Humanity this fall to help build Habitat’s first “Green Build” in Glendale. The home was built over a two-week period. WMAZ provided Port-O-Lets and recycling services that helped Habitat achieve LEED certification for the home. The house was built with environmentally-friendly technology, which will save the new homeowners money on their energy bills.
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