Blue Skies Recycling

Welcome to Blue Skies Recycling! Our recycling company specializes in organics, single-stream & glass recycling solutions. We’re the premier disposal service company servicing our hometown of St. Louis, MO, and beyond.Blue Skies Recycling can customize a program to fit your organization's needs - big or small - for commercial, industrial and institutional recycling.Blue Skies represents three generations of recyclers with a clear mission to create a more sustainable community for future generations by limiting the items sent to landfills. Cleaner land, air and water will create better overall health and protect our most valuable asset - our future.

Founded on three generations of waste collection expertise and environmental stewardship, Blue Skies’ recycling program aims to change the world for the better by changing the way people think about recycling.Over the past couple decades, recycling programs have made significant strides in the United States. Practically every office recycles paper, glass, aluminum and plastic these days, as do a significant percentage of homes and apartment complexes. However, landfills here are still constantly in danger of overfilling, which can cause a host of environmental problems, including excess methane emissions.You may wonder why overflowing landfills are still a problem if we’ve gotten so much better at recycling recently. The answer is two-fold:

• A significant percentage of the country still doesn’t recycle glass, aluminum, plastic and cardboard, which we call single-stream recycling.
• An even more significant percentage of the country does NOT compost organics. Blue Skies hopes to change this fact, one customer at a time.

We take a proactive approach to recycling rather than reactive in order to divert waste from landfills and improve the environment. Through customized waste collection, valet pickup, “green marketing” services, and workplace/school sustainability programs, Blue Skies Recycling makes it easy for clients to do the right thing by properly recycling organics, single-stream, and glass.While technology and times have changed, our commitment to our clients and to advancing a sustainable environment remains solid. With more than 80 years of experience, we will help your company meet and exceed your recycling goals.

BLUE SKIES’ COMMITMENT TO OUR CLIENT

Blue Skies Recycling has a strong commitment to clients, which is demonstrated in every phase of the relationship. From full service “valet” pickup to knowledgeable service and state-of-the-art technology, Blue Skies Recycling puts in that valuable extra effort that a lot of businesses lack these days. With Blue Skies recycling collection services, recycling becomes easy. Examples of our extra effort include:

• Rigorously cleaning and sterilizing our signature yellow bins after emptying its contents and before returning them to our clients.
• Providing top-notch marketing services.
• Having support staff just one call away.
• Providing FREE training classes and educational signs to clients to help make the transition to organics recycling easy and successful.

We want to do everything possible in order to not only implement organics recycling at businesses, but to make our clients’ organics recycling programs successful. We want you to enjoy recycling and look forward to partnering with Blue Skies.

BENEFITS OF RECYCLING

Why should I recycle? You haven't in the past and it hasn't changed your company's bottom line or success. Why start now?At Blue Skies, we say 'Why not?' Everyone has a responsibility to do the right thing for future generations when it comes to our resources and environment. Recycling is not just an environmentally conscious decision; it's also good business! Recycling is easy and can save your business time and money by reducing the overall volume of waste in your workplace.Recycling is an important way for individuals and businesses to reduce the waste they generate, reduce the negative impact of that waste, save money, and create jobs.

Here are just a few benefits of recycling…          

• Recycling Conserves Natural Resources – Many plastics use petroleum as a main component. Making products from recycled materials instead of virgin materials, conserves land and reduces the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.

• Recycling Saves Energy – It usually takes less energy to make recycled products; i.e. recycled aluminum takes 95% less energy than new aluminum from bauxite ore.

• Recycling Saves Clean Air and Water – In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.

• Recycling Saves Landfill Space – When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don't go into landfills or incinerators, so landfill space is conserved.