E.J. Harrison & Sons Blog
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Minimize Thanksgiving Food Waste and Reflections on a Year of Gratitude at Harrison Industries
A Sustainable Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a time for food, family, and gratitude—but it’s also a time when food waste skyrockets. Did you know American families waste about 1,160 pounds of food annually? Around Thanksgiving alone, an estimated 305 million pounds of...
E. J. Harrison Thursday and Friday customers Trash Collection Delayed for Thanksgiving 2024
Harrison’s Thursday and Friday customers will have trash collection delayed one day for the Thanksgiving holiday. In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, employees of Harrison Industries are taking the day off on Thursday, Nov. 28. As a result, customers who...
Trash Collection Resumes for Mountain Fire Affected Areas
E.J. Harrison and Sons, Inc. is here to support the residents affected by the Mountain Fire. Today, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department gave us clearance to resume regular trash pickup service to those affected areas. Regular pickup day for those areas is...
Trash Collection Schedule Unchanged for Veterans’ Day 2024
Harrison Industries will maintain its regular trash, recycling and yard/organic waste collection schedule during the week of Veterans Day, Nov. 10-16. Remember that Harrison’s residential customers can place all three carts curbside every week, as Harrison collects...
Halloween Reminder: Pumpkins are Food Waste!
When October rolls around, We sure do love our pumpkins! And I’m no different! Whether we’re carving them up for Halloween or putting them on display to honor Autumn, most of us make an annual trip to the store or local pumpkin patch to pick up a few. But we also know...
Trash Collection Schedule Unchanged for Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024
Harrison Industries will maintain its regular trash, recycling and yard/organics waste collection schedule in Ventura County for Indigenous Peoples Day. The holiday falls on Monday, Oct. 14 this year and is celebrated annually on the second Monday of October. Remember...
Join the Ventura Coastal Cleanup Day on September 21st, 2024: Make a Difference for Our Shores!
This year marks the 40th anniversary of California Coastal Cleanup Day. Harrison Industries hopes you’ll celebrate by joining the annual cleanup of our beaches, creeks, watersheds and ocean on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 9 a.m. to noon. Nearly every body of water in...
Reducing Methane Is Everyone’s Business
A worldwide heat wave in June set off alarms for climate watchers around the globe and produced a collection of frightening headlines. Among them: “Billions of people just felt the deadly intensity of climate-fueled heat waves” – Washington Post, June 22, 2024 “Well...