Green Meadow Nursery and Hardware helps complete

the recycling loop by selling Agromin products.

If you run a business or own a multi-family complex, you know the importance of mak-ing a good fi rst impression. If your property

needs a fresh coat of paint, or your landscaping requires an extreme makeover, chances are you will lose potential customers or tenants.

Agromin Premium Soil Products can help – with your landscaping needs, that is.

You know all those grass clippings, tree branches and leaves that you place in your green waste container at home and, perhaps, at your business? Well, they go to good use. For the past 15 years, our trucks have transported them to Agromin, which uses cutting-edge technology to convert the green waste materials into organic mulches, compost, wood chips and other products that naturally fertilize plants and trees.

Time and effort has fi nally paid off, and bagged products, under Agromin’s PowerMix la-bel, are now available locally. Agromin has devel-oped and manufactured more than 240 premium soil products, now sold at 41 retail locations in Ventura County and throughout Southern Califor-nia. In Camarillo, Agromin products are available at B&B Do It Center, 698 Mobile Ave. 388-1067; Green Meadow Nursery, 10825 Santa Rosa Rd. 482-2822; and U Rent, 92 N. Dawson Dr. 484-7961; and in Somis at AG Rx, 3250 Somis Rd., 386-2674.

All have stepped up to the plate to do their part by selling locally manufactured and environ-mentally friendly soil products– from your yard waste barrels to their shelves. PLEASE TRY IT – you will be forever pleased by the results.

These products help reduce the use of non-or-ganic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides – mak-ing our air and water cleaner. They also save valuable space in landfi lls, thus completing the green waste recycling loop.

You also can order Agromin products online in

addition to learning valuable gardening and land-scaping tips from the company’s website, www.agromin.com.

For more information, call 1-800-AGROMIN (247-6646).

BusinessesHelp us keep green waste,

a natural resource,

out of the

landfill.

Recycle Your Green Waste

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Recycling News for Camarillo Businesses & Multi-Family Complexes

Fall 2008

Organic Agromin Products Meet Your Landscaping Needs

Unicycling Fills Key Gap in Camarillo

The support and participation of Camarillo’s business community is vital to ensure that the city continues to divert more

than 50 percent of its waste stream from the landfi ll. Nearly all local businesses participate in some type of recycling program. Some businesses that generate a large amount of waste and recyclables participate in a traditional source-sep-arated recycling program, where-by a recycling bin is provided in addition to a trash container. This approach is straightfor-ward, but is not cost effective for business customers that generate smaller amounts of waste.

To make recycling more cost effective for these cus-tomers, E.J. Harrison & Sons developed an innovative recycling program called “Unicycling.”

UnicyclingUnicycling is a system designed for smaller

waste generators that uses a single bin for both trash and recycling. The messy trash (lunchroom and restroom trash, for instance) is bagged in plas-tic bags and placed in the same bin as loose recy-clables. Gold Coast Recycling processes all loads from the Unicycling program and receives a fee to remove the bagged trash, then sorts the remaining recyclables to recover as many items as they can.

Camarillo has many smaller waste generators currently participating in the Unicycling program. The program is ideal for Camarillo in that it lim-its the number of trucks required to pick up trash and recyclables and also limits the number of refuse bins placed throughout the city, reducing so-called “container pollution.”

Multi-family ReycyclingResidents of Multi-Family Unit (MFU) com-

plexes like apartments and condos must have the same access to recycling as their neighbors resid-ing in single-family homes. In Camarillo, all MFU complexes have recycling bins or barrels placed at every location where there is a trash bin to make recycling easier for residents. In the past, some

complexes had the recycle bin “hidden” in the least used trash enclosure, making it more

diffi cult for residents to recycle. This new easy-access policy has increased the amount recycled by MFU resi-dents.

Rolloff ContainersGold Coast Recycling and EJ Har-

rison & Sons offers a service which recycles construction & demolition loads

as well as mixed roll-off loads for a small pro-cessing fee. Harrison also offers a reduced rate for clean yard waste loads as well as all dirt and all concrete loads. These highly successful programs signifi cantly increase what is recycled and reduces the amount

of material that goes to the landfi ll. For more information and roll off rates, call 647-1414.

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Buy Recycled PaperSeparating out recyclables from trash is

only part of recycling. Unless we buy recycled paper, there

will be no markets for the paper that is collected. The more recycled paper that is purchased, the less expensive it becomes. Make sure your offi ce uses recycled paper.

Recycled paper can be requested through most paper distributors and used for all your paper needs — annual reports, stationery, busi-ness cards, advertising and direct mailings.

Pay Bills On LineYou can now pay your bills on

line with a credit card or e-check. It’s easy. Go to www.ejharrison.com and check out your payment options.

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Fall 2008

Recycle Those Phone Books

Place your phone book loose in the recycling bin.

Old directories will be processed for use as new paper products or for use as

packing paper. Recycling phone books saves trees, water and electricity.

Roll-Offs, Bins Available to Businesses

Harrison Industries offers roll-off service and bins for businesses with big jobs that require large solid waste disposal. Roll-off containers can be rented on a tem-

porary basis, and are available in a size – 3, 10, 25 and 45 cubic yards of space – to fi t your needs.

u 3-yard bins are ideal for home, garage and garden cleanup.

u 10-yard bins are for concrete, dirt, asphalt and sod removal. They are also good for removing other heavy

materials.

u 25-yard bins are for larger concrete, dirt, asphalt and sod removal projects.

u 40-yard bins are ideal for construction sites, roofi ng projects, land clearing and weed abatement and demolition. They are also good to remove large furniture

and appliances.

Service is fast, reliable and economical.For more information and rates, call 647-1414.

3-yard bin

10-yard bin

25-yard bin

40-yard bin

Expand Your Recycling Horizons

Plastic containers with the codes through are accepted in your recycling con-tainer. Also rigid plastic items such as

5-gallon buckets, crates, storage contain-ers, margarine and yogurt tubs, nursery fl ats and plastic toys are being accepted so they can be recycled into new useful prod-ucts. Styrofoam in any form, plastic bags and plastic fi lm (shrink-wrap) are still not accepted for recycling.

Only clean paper such as cardboard, newspaper, junk mail, magazines, catalogs, offi ce paper, cereal and cracker boxes, egg cartons, envelopes and paper bags are recyclable. Please put any paper that has had food or moisture on it (paper plates, cups, towels, tissues) in

the trash. Don’t forget to include metal

and aluminum cans and other met-als in your recycling container. Labels may be left on the cans but make sure they are empty.

Athletic shoes can also be recy-cled now, thanks to the Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program. Please don’t place any boots, sandals or other non-athletic shoes in your recycling container.

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Harrison Commercial CustomersRecycling, Unicycling and Yard Waste Guidelines

Magazines

NewspaperPaper/

Junk Mail

Aluminum & Metal CansGlass

Containers

Cardboard

PlasticsAll hard plastics including

nursery pots are recyclable.No Styrofoam, No film plastic.

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Step 2: The rest can go in Loose

Step 1: Bag the Messy Trash*

The ONLY MUST for all Unicyclers.Customer provides bags.

This container is for BOTH Trash and Recycling

*These items need to be bagged because they are messy:Food Waste, Bathroom Waste, Coffee Grounds, Light Bulbs, Wet Material,

Anything that will contaminate the recyclables.

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Household Hazardous Waste Program

Accepted Items: Antifreeze, solvents, pesticides, household cleaners, pool & garden chemicals, household & car batteries, lancets (in approved containers), fl uorescent light tubes, cathode ray tubes (CRT’s), compressed gas cylinders, fi re extinguishers, oil based & latex paint, mercury-containing devices, motor oil & fi lters and expired medication (no controlled substances).

Drop-off events are held the second Friday & Saturday of every month. For an appointment, please call:

City of CamarilloCity Manager: Jerry Bankston

Mayor: Charlotte Craven

Vice Mayor: Don Waunch

council Members:Kevin Kildee, Jan McDonald & Mike Morgan

Got a lot of trash?Try a Harrison roll-off or bin rental. Convenient & Affordable.

Got a little bit of trash?Take it to Gold Coast Recycling & Transfer Station.

Got some yard waste or need some mulch?

Call California Wood Recycling.

5275 Colt St. • Ventura(805) 642-9236www.goldcoastrecycling.com

www.ejharrison.com

(805) 650-1616www.agromin.comwww.calwoodrecycling.com

(805) 647-1414 1-800-41 TRASH

Printed on Recycled Paper

987-0717

Items NOT Accepted: Explosives, amunition, fi reworks, tires, radio-active waste, infectious waste, smoke alarms or business waste.