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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
In The News | October 13, 2004Check out this article about our cleanup efforts in Seattle...
Now that Chris Martin has gotten rid of most of the foul-smelling, rat-infested Dumpsters in Pioneer Square, he's setting his sights on Capitol Hill.
Strolling through one of the few alleys in Pioneer Square that still has Dumpsters the other day, he said his quest began about seven years ago. He was an account manager for an ad agency back then, and he lived in a condo in Pioneer Square that faced an alley with Dumpsters.
Continue reading at the Seattle PI
In The News | October 14, 2004Check out this article about our founder's quest for clean streets...
Have you walked down a back alley lately? You might be surprised to find many of Seattle's dirtiest alleys are nearly spotless these days.
All because one man stepped in where the city feared to tread.
Chris Martin is president of CleanScapes, a for-profit trash collection company dedicated to ridding city alleys of dumpsters and the problems they cause.
In The News | September 15, 2002
Check out this article about our founder, Chris Martin...
Chris Martin will be the first to admit that he's wrong a lot. And he'll be the first to say that he doesn't mind making mistakes. It's a good way to learn, he said.
Martin is president of CleanScapes, which provides street maintenance and cleanup services while offering employment opportunities for men and women in Seattle's social services network.
Continue reading at the Puget Sound Business Journal
In The News | September 26, 2007Check out this article about our cleanup efforts in Seattle...
Chris Martin is busting open garbage bags in a Georgetown lot—three days' worth of accumulated waste from two downtown office buildings. He won't say which buildings they are. That's because (a) the tenants are mostly environmental advocacy groups, and (b) the results of this "garbage audit" are not going to be pretty.
Martin and his crew dump the contents on the ground, forming heaps of banana peels, coffee cups, energy-bar wrappers, McDonald's packaging, plastic bags, water bottles, bunched-up paper, and other by-products of office life. They sort through it all with rakes and hands, separating out the recyclables from the true trash—that is, doing what the tenants should have done in the first place.
Continue reading at Seattle Weekly
In The News | August 25, 2008Check out this article about our cleanup efforts in Seattle...
Chris Martin, an entrepreneur from Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, has a knack for creating efficient systems. More than a decade ago, Martin began using his neighborhood, an area once known as a haven for raucous night owls and the down and out, as a test bed for a waste collection scheme that has proven to turn profits and reduce the amount of trash headed to landfills.
With his company CleanScapes, Martin set out to make Dumpsters a thing of the past and reduce the waste stream to boot. Customers receive color-coded bags for trash, recycling and compost, all of which CleanScapes picks up multiple times per day. The program nearly doubled waste reduction efforts in Pioneer Square.
Continue reading at Sustainable Industries Magazine
In The News | August 24, 2010Check out this article about our Duwahmish Alive! event...
Hundreds of volunteers are needed to work at nine restoration sites along the Duwamish River at the semi-annual Duwamish Alive! work day set for Saturday, Oct. 17. “This is the last big volunteer outdoor event of the year and a great chance for families to get out and pitch in to make our community and our hometown river a better, healthier place,” said Dhira Brown, People For Puget Sound Restoration Ecologist and event coordinator.
Continue reading at the West Seattle Herald
In The News | August 30, 2009Check out this article about our bid for cleanup in the Kent area...
Only a few months after launching garbage collection services in Seattle, CleanScapes Inc. is trying to land a contract with the city of Kent. The contract for the city of 87,000 could be worth about $200 million over its full length of 11 years, said Kelly Peterson, environmental conservation supervisor for Kent.
Once again, the relatively small, Seattle-based CleanScapes will be competing with a few giant corporations, including the two biggest in the industry: Waste Management Inc., a Houston-based company with $12.4 billion in revenue, and Allied Waste, a Phoenix-based company with $6 billion in revenue that recently merged with Republic Services, becoming the second-biggest in the country.
Continue reading at the Puget Sound Business Journal
In The News | October 07, 2009Check out this article about how we've helped clean up Pioneer Square alleys...
What can a downtown alley be used for? More than you think—and a group in Pioneer Square has been working to prove it. The network of businesses connected to the historic Nord building, located near First Avenue and Main Street, has created a vibrant and charming social space in an unlikely locale: the alleyway behind their offices.
Todd Vogel of the International Sustainability Institute bought two floors of the Nord in 2007, and began using it for his own office space as well as renting space to a number of for-profit and non-profit tenants. When he moved in, he began doing small things to clean up the adjoining alley, wanting to send a signal to others to respect the space.
Continue reading at Northwest HUB
In The News | July 05, 2010Check out this article about our 4th of July cleanup event with Starbucks and Seattle Public Utilities...
With a 2-year-old strapped to his back, Hiroshi Fujita and his 8-year-old daughter combed through gravel near Seattle's Gas Works Park Monday morning, tossing trash from Sunday's fireworks fest into a yellow bag. Across the street, his wife and 6-year-old daughter did the same. The new transplants from Yokohama, Japan, celebrated their first American Independence Day here this year. And, Fujita said, it was only right for them to help with the next day's cleanup.
Continue reading at the Seattle Times
In The News | December 01, 2010Check out this video about our cleanup efforts in the Seattle area...
As you're getting ready for work this morning, 2000 workers are already on the clock sweeping and cleaning to make part of Seattle as clean as possible. Kiro 7 eyewitness news with Jeff live downtown, where that free cleanup is underway. They started about an hour and a half ago, CleanScapes, the company that Seattle contracts with for garbage cleanup and general cleanup, they're not just picking up the garbage cans today - they are cleaning up the alleyways, the sidewalks, they're tyring to make this pike-pine corridor of downtown as clean as possible.
In The News | December 06, 2010
Check out this article about our cleanup efforts in Seattle...
Earlier this year I began an effort to keep our downtown cleaner and enhance public safety. I told Chris Martin, president of Cleanscapes, one of Seattle’s contract solid waste, recycling, and yard/foodwaste haulers, of my work to improve garbage collection, to have cleaner alleys and to get the gum off the sidewalks. Chris immediately offered to volunteer time of his cleaning crews to help in my effort.
Continue reading at Seattle.gov
| April 30, 2011Date: 4/30/2011 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Cost: FREE. Bring event flyer or show proof of residency.
Location: Shoreline Park & Ride
Aurora Ave N at 192nd
Shoreline, Washington 98133
Learn More at the City of Shoreline Website
In The News | May 06, 2011Here's a great article about a community cleanup we're helping in Portland...
The Northwest District Association is adding graffiti removal to this month's litter cleanup in Northwest Portland.
The neighborhood association is partnering with CleanScapes, a street maintenance company in Northwest Portland, to remove the graffiti during the NWDA's monthly litter cleanup on Saturday, May 14.
The graffiti cleanup will take place rain or shine from 9 to 10:30 a.m., and volunteers will meet at Umpqua Bank, 467 N.W. 23rd Ave. Anyone can join the effort to remove the graffiti and also pick up litter along Northwest 23rd Avenue.
Supplies and training will be provided, and volunteers will also be given pastries and coffee. To RSVP for the cleanup, email NWDA spokeswoman Mary Ann Pastene, and for more information visit the Northwest District Association website.
Continue reading at Oregon Live
| July 05, 2011
After the 4th of July fireworks have faded you can join hundred of your neighbors and help keep Lake Union beautiful by volunteering in Starbucks annual community 5th of July Lake Union Cleanup. Help return Gasworks Park (Wallingford), The Center for Wooden Boats (South Lake Union) and Rogers Playground (Eastlake) to their pre-festivity glory!
Where: Lake Union, Seattle
When: 9am – 1:30pm, registration required
Learn more and register at starbucks.com
Read about last year's event here.
| October 15, 2011Join CleanScapes at Gateway Park for Duwamish Alive!
On October 15th hundreds of volunteers at multiple sites will work together in a joint effort to help restore the Duwamish River watershed.
King County Executive Dow Constantine has cleared the way for free disposal of branches, tree limbs and other wood debris left in the wake of recent wind and snow storms.
Free wood debris recycling for King County residents will be available on Jan. 28-29, and again on Feb. 4-5 at four locations: Shoreline, Enumclaw, and Cedar Falls solid waste facilties and Kent's Russel Road Park.
On April 21st join hundreds of volunteers at multiple sites in a joint effort to restore the Duwamish River watershed.
CleanScapes will be working at the Gateway Park site in Seattle’s historic Georgetown neighborhood. All are welcome: CleanScapes employees, members of the Georgetown community, friends and family. No experience necessary. Habitat restoration experts from Seattle Parks Department will be on hand to provide instruction. Snacks, water, coffee, tools and gloves are provided.
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Saturday, April 21st |
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Gateway Park, 8th Avenue Street-end in Georgetown |
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