News

award

Check out this article about our community improvement in the Queen Anne neighborhood...

"The west half of Queen Anne is a close second to win a stake in a $50,000 community project through a city-wide contest held by Seattle waste management company CleanScapes.

 

Running from September 2010 to September of this year, trash collection areas are competing against one another to make the largest reduction in trash, yard waste and recycling compared to the previous year."

 

Continue reading at Queen Anne View

Central Seattle Wins New Playground by Reducing Waste

CleanScapes is delighted to announce that a new playground at Washington Park is the featured $50,000 community project chosen as the 2009/2010 waste reduction competition award.

Read more...

Check out this article about when we won the Small Business Award in Seattle...

There's nothing glamorous about picking up trash or cleaning up human waste in the streets and alleys of Pioneer Square.

 

But someone has to do it. That someone is CleanScapes, a winner of one of the 1999 Mayor's Small Business awards.

 

Pioneer Square resident Chris Martin started CleanScapes in January 1997 as a public/private partnership with the Pioneer Square Community Council, with two ideas in mind: To make the neighborhood a cleaner and safer place and to provide employment opportunities to those living in neighborhood shelters.

Continue reading at the Puget Sound Business Journal

Bike Recycling and Waste Reduction Rewards Programs Honored

SEATTLE, WA – (August 24, 2011) –This week the Solid Waste Association of North America awarded CleanScapes both a Silver and Bronze Excellence Award at their National Conference in Nashville Tennessee.  The silver award was granted in recognition of CleanScapes bike recycling program and the bronze award was for CleanScapes Neighborhood Reduction Rewards programs. 

CleanScapes launched their bicycle recycling program in June of 2010 – placing the first collection station at Seattle’s North Transfer Station.  Since the inception of the program, collection stations have expanded to Seattle’s South Transfer Station and King County’s Shoreline Transfer Station, and CleanScapes and their partner Bike Works have recycled over 2,000 bikes.

Read more...

Mayor Keith McGlashan and CleanScapes Announce Winner and Present $10,000 Check

SHORELINE, WA – (April 21, 2012) – On Saturday, April 21st, CleanScapes’ Waste Zero Manager and Shoreline Mayor Keith McGlashan announced the winner of CleanScapes 2011/2012 Neighborhood Reduction Rewards Competition. CleanScapes, the solid waste company serving Shoreline, awarded a $10,000 community grant to the neighborhoods of Hillwood, Innis Arden, Richmond Beach and Richmond Highlands.

Read more...