by Kyle Knapp | Oct 8, 2021 | Camarillo, Carpinteria, Fillmore, News, Ojai, Residential Recycling, Ventura
An urgent appeal to all Harrison customers: In choosing which cart to use, please make sure it’s recyclables ONLY in the blue cart; green waste ONLY in the tan cart*; and trash ONLY in the green cart*.
We’re now picking up all three carts weekly, giving you more room to recycle all that you can; we hope you’re taking full advantage of that. Trash cart contents go unsorted to the landfill, so any recyclable items that end up in there will needlessly take up space and organic waste will emit harmful methane gas that’s contributing to climate change.
Historically, Harrison customers have done a remarkable job of recycling, but the need to recycle has never been greater and cannot be overstated. With strict new state mandates taking effect on Jan. 1 – when food waste recycling will be added to the organics mix – it is now an imperative.
Thank you once again for working with us toward a better future.
* In the coming years, as a new statewide color-coded system slowly rolls out, tan yard waste carts will change to green and green trash carts will change to black.
For more information, call: Ventura’s Environmental Sustainability Division at 805-652-4525 or Daniel Harrison of E.J. Harrison & Sons at 805-647-1414, ext. 4321.
For recycling guidelines click here.
by admin | Sep 4, 2021 | Camarillo, Carpinteria, Channel Islands Beach Community Services District (CIBCSD), Commercial Recycling, Fillmore, News, Ojai, Recycling, Residential Recycling, UA Ventura County, Ventura
In observance of the Labor Day holiday, employees of Harrison Industries will be taking the day off on Monday, Sept. 6. As a result, Harrison will collect trash, recycling and green waste one day later than usual during the week of Sept. 5-11.
The regular schedule will resume the following week.
Harrison Industries serves the cities and surrounding unincorporated areas of Ventura, Ojai and Camarillo as well as the unincorporated areas of El Rio, Somis, Ojai Valley and Channel Islands beach communities as E.J. Harrison and Sons; Fillmore and surrounding unincorporated areas as Santa Clara Valley Disposal; and Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park and surrounding unincorporated areas as Newbury Disposal.
by admin | Jul 14, 2021 | Camarillo, Carpinteria, Fillmore, New Services, News, Ojai, Residential Recycling, Ventura
You no longer have to remember which cart to put out each week. E.J. Harrison & Sons is now collecting ALL THREE carts – trash, recycling and yard waste – every week, at no additional charge!
Note: Your pickup day of the week will not change. Simply set out all three carts on your regularly scheduled pickup day.
This service upgrade will provide more room for you to recycle and allow Harrison to divert more recyclables and organics from the landfill.
For additional information, call 805-647-1414.
by admin | Jun 23, 2021 | Community Support, News, Ventura
Sister and brother Nora and Emmett Allen have both earned scholarships to attend a weeklong LEGO Summer Camp – the grand prize in an innovative contest to create the best home-crafted trash truck.
The local siblings’ winning entry was announced on June 18 by the Museum of Ventura County, which sponsored the contest.
The trash truck contest was the highlight of a weekend, recycling-focused drive-thru event hosted May 1-2 by the Museum of Ventura County.
Harrison was the main sponsor of the youth-oriented family event, which also included the giveaway of grab bags full of fun and educational goodies.
“Small Footprints: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” was the theme of the simple, COVID-safe “Grab-and-Go” event, which sought to promote the vital importance of children learning to recycle and protect the environment, for their own future.
“The Museum of Ventura County is grateful to have a long and meaningful relationship with E.J. Harrison,” said museum development director Eric Knight, “and we’re honored to have this opportunity to once again work with the Harrison family, in bringing this message of sustainability to the public.”
by admin | Jun 9, 2021 | Camarillo, Carpinteria, Fillmore, New Services, News, Ojai, Residential Recycling, Ventura
Beginning the week of July 5, E.J. Harrison & Sons will begin weekly curbside collection of ALL THREE carts – trash, recycling and yard waste – at no additional charge! Note: Your pickup day of the week will not change. Simply set out all three carts on your regularly scheduled pickup day.
ALSO the week of July 5: There will be no delay in service due to the Fourth of July holiday.
The new three-cart service upgrade will provide more room for you to recycle and allow Harrison to divert more materials from the landfill.
For additional information, call 805-647-4141.
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Camarillo, Carpinteria, Channel Islands Beach Community Services District (CIBCSD), Fillmore, New Services, News, Ojai, Residential Recycling, UA Ventura County, Ventura
E.J. Harrison & Sons will begin delivering new trash and recycling carts that will comply with California’s Senate Bill 1383, which creates a statewide uniform color system for all carts, bins and roll-offs. The new containers will slowly roll out across the state in the coming years.
Meanwhile, residents will continue to use their green, blue and tan carts.
Here are the color changes coming, based on SB 1383 rules:
• New black carts will replace green trash carts.
• The blue recycle carts will remain blue.
• New green carts will replace the tan/brown carts that are used for yard/green waste.
While the state requires all carts to be replaced by 2036, Harrison expects to completely phase in the new carts within a few years
The state deadline for carts to begin to be replaced is Jan. 1, 2022.
The next generation of 32-, 64- and 96-gallon fully automated carts are slightly shorter than the ones they will replace, but they are wider and heavier, which should make them more stable during wind events.
New carts will be delivered to customers along with how-to flyers explaining exactly what to do with each cart.
For more information, call Harrison at 805-647-1414.
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Community Support, Events, News, Ventura
The vital importance of children learning to recycle and protect the environment, for their own future, is at the heart of a unique pair of family-oriented community events being sponsored by E.J. Harrison & Sons and hosted this weekend by the Museum of Ventura County.
“Small Footprints: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” is the theme of the simple, COVID-safe “Grab-and-Go” drive-thru events, which will begin both days at 10 a.m. – on Saturday, May 1, at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula and on Sunday, May 2, at the main Museum of Ventura County in downtown Ventura. The events will end as soon as the museums’ fun grab bags have been given out, so anyone planning to attend is encouraged to arrive early.
Those attending on Saturday should drive by the front of the Agricultural Museum, along Santa Paula’s Railroad Avenue. Those attending on Sunday should enter the parking lot off Ventura’s East Santa Clara Street behind the Main Street museum. Parking attendants will help direct visitors.
Drive-thru visitors will receive gift bags that include fun and informative recycling-themed activities and coloring books; copies of “Mateo Learns About the Three Rs,” an inspiring booklet about one boy’s education in recycling; educational materials on the 3 Rs and what goes in your recycle carts; sustainability-themed recipes from Food Forward; and templates and entry details for the event’s big draw: a family contest to find Ventura County’s best home-crafted trash truck. The contest winner will get a scholarship for a weeklong LEGO Summer Camp.
“The Museum of Ventura County is grateful to have a long and meaningful relationship with E.J. Harrison,” said Eric Knight, development director for the museums, “and we’re honored to have this opportunity to once again work with the Harrison family, in bringing this message of sustainability to the public.”
We’re proud to be the main sponsor of these awesome youth-focused museum events. The future is our children and we need to educate them however we can about climate change and the importance of recycling.
We also are happy to announce that this “Small Footprints” event will kick off our yearlong celebration of Harrison’s 90th anniversary in business.
by admin | Apr 14, 2021 | News, Tips
Earth Day is one day a year: April 22. But its message is ongoing.
Facing the dire effects of climate change, the Earth desperately needs our help. At Harrison, we do our part every day – running a clean company with our fleet of all natural-gas trucks and evident in our consistent place on the Climate Registry, which honors companies throughout North America that take voluntary steps to measure their operations’ carbon footprints.
Locally, we help year-round in our communities, by co-sponsoring cleanup events whenever asked, and we continue to support the Ventura Surfrider Foundation in its vital beach cleanups.
Through advanced recycling practices and community advocacy, we take great pride in doing whatever we can to prevent waste from ending up in the landfills, which emit the toxic methane gases that present the greatest threat to our environment.
As we do what we can to help, we hope that you will too, in the easy ways you can. Keep recycling, of course. Cut down on plastic. And help out in your community: Take a bag with you when you go walking and make a fun chore of picking up random trash, which would otherwise end up in the sewer system and ultimately our oceans.
Our wish for Earth Day and every day is that you’ll join us in doing your part to keep our beaches, the ocean and our land empty of trash.
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Climate Registry, News
We’re still leading the ecological charge, achieving well beyond carbon neutrality in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. According to the latest Climate Registry and Avoided Emissions Reporting, Harrison Industries has fully offset its direct GHG emissions surpassing net zero in emissions by 21 times.
“As you can imagine, any company just trying to get to net zero is hard,” said Bill Camarillo, CEO of Harrison partner Agromin, “but the Harrisons have been able to average, over 10 years, 21 times greater than net zero, which is a tremendous accomplishment.”
It’s a remarkable number but not unexpected. We have a well tracked history of avoided emissions – including a fleet of trucks that run entirely on clean fuel – and following all of the protocol. We see this as our greatest responsibility and our greatest success as a trash/recycle company.
We at Harrison are very proud of our annual high ranking on the prestigious Climate Registry, which monitors greenhouse gas emissions.
Harrison joined The Climate Registry in 2008 – just after the registry was formed – and it’s met its goal of remaining far ahead of the clean-air curve every year. The Climate Registry is a nonprofit organization designed and created in 2007 to manage and reduce businesses’ greenhouse gas emissions. Governed by U.S. states and Canadian provinces and territories, the registry operates GHG reporting programs globally and assists organizations in measuring, reporting and verifying the carbon in their operations in order to manage and reduce it.
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