Single Stream Recycling

Recycle Your Wedding Dress!

Cardboard Recycling

Cardboard recycling is a great program for those businesses who generate quite a bit of cardboard on a regular basis. This service can be done via, small / large dumpsters or compactors. If you are not sure which service would be best for you, give us a call and we will have an account representative come out and evaluate your service. We currently have a cardboard recycling program in Davis and Weber County for businesses, along with scrap metal recycling all over the Wasatch Front for businesses and contractors. These services are available in front load containers and roll off containers.

 Benefits of Recycling Cardboard

• Cardboard recycling can produce huge savings to our commercial garbage collection customers. Most of our customers don’t realize that cardboard can take up a lot of space in dumpsters. Their garbage cans fill up faster and our customers pay more for disposal fees on a product that can be recycled.
• Recycling cardboard also reduces the demand for new paper which saves trees and decreases pollution generated in new paper production.
• Recycling cardboard also reduces bulky waste and space in our landfills as well.

When Not to Recycle Cardboard

• In most cases recycling cardboard is a fairly easy process. However, there are a few reasons that cardboard cannot be recycled. Cardboard from pizza boxes and other food containers can be contaminated with grease. When the grease from these products is mixed with water during the slurry process the water and oil can’t mix and the slurry process is ruined.
• Cardboard containers coated in wax such as juice containers or milk cartons usually can’t be recycled as well.

Ace Disposal supports Parents Empowered.org

Ace Disposal has teamed up with parents empowered to support the important cause of underage drinking. Ace has put billboards on the sides of the trucks to help remind parents about talking to their children about the effects of underage drinking. The power of parents is what is going to help this problem get under control.

Parents Empowered focuses on eliminating underage drinking in Utah. Kids are drinking as young as eight years old. There are the common reasons why underage drinking is bad such as: drinking and driving, and not being mature enough to realize what they are doing or who's life they are affecting. New scientific evidence has shown that the human brain is still maturing until age 21. If kids are drinking at such a young age, they are risking the chance of seriously damaging their short or long term growth of the brain. Drinking alcohol as a teen effects the brain differently than an adult brain because the teens brain is still developing. Drinking alcohol as a teen has the ability to stay in the body for up to two weeks after they have drunk. With that result, underage drinking has the ability to effect children's social skills, motor skills, good judgement; increases risk of mental illness, and highly increases the risk of becoming an alcoholic.

For more information, go to their website:parentsempowered.org

Food to Water

Equipment for Sale

2000 Mack MR 688S Front Load Truck

Make/Model: Mack MR 688S
Serial#: 1M2K189CXYM014554
Body: WITTKE Starlight 40 cubic yard tilt to dump

Ace Unit Number #138

Description: We are the original owners with complete maintenance records available.

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Metal Sorting Process

What is a Compactor?

Compactors help to compress waste volumes reducing waste disposal costs and saving your business time and space. Ace Disposal Trash Compactors come in a variety of different sizes and styles.  With the help of a trash compactor, you can go longer without having your trash hauled. It will also eliminate overflowing dumpsters and rodents and animals who love to look through your trash.

When the compactor is full, an easy push of the button will compact all of your trash creating more room for you to fill up the garbage can.

If you are interested in one of our compactors for cardboard or trash, call our customer response team and we will set you up with our sales staff to start service at 
801-363-9995.

The Glass Recycling Process

Recycling your Pizza Boxes

Have you ever enjoyed a nice hot fresh pizza and thrown the box in the trash without a second thought? It may surprise you to learn that only half the box can be recycled. When paper is recycled, it’s mixed with water to help create a pulp. Grease from the pizza gets added to the mixing process and the oil will form at the top of the mix, which will ruin the the mix.

Ace Disposal and Recycling

Are you interested in recycling but you don’t know where to start? No problem! Your account representative can help you set up the appropriate service level and also adjust your trash service as needed. We also have a recycle specialist who can answer all your recycling questions and educate your company and help kick off your recycling programs.

Call us today at: 801-363-9995

Ace Recycling and Disposal Customer Feature Benefit

Ace has recently added a new feature to our customer service benefits. If your account has an email address for your site contact and billing contact, we can now send you notifications for service issues that occur on our service day. We currently call the site contact by phone to inform them of any issues. This new option will keep you updated and help get issues resolved sooner. Those who have an account on our online system are aware of the email alerts that come with making a payment or changing account settings and know how helpful this form of communication is. We encourage our customers to use our e service. If you want to use these great new features you can set up an account online, call (801)363-9995 or send us an email at customerservice@acedisposal.com and we will be happy to update your information.

Caring for your Ace Disposal Dumpster

Not many people realize what goes into preparing a dumpster before it is sent out to a business to be used. Bel ow are a few examples of the steps we take to ensure that our customers g et a good quality dumpster for their business. When a customer calls in because their dumpster is damaged, vandalized or odorous we bring that container into our facility and send our customers a nice refurbished dumpster. A lot of work goes into refurbishing a dumpster. The dumpster is thoroughly cleaned out in our state of the art wash bay. Damages are repaired and old, damaged decals are removed. We use a heated pressure steam cleaning system to help remove grease and odors. After a thorough cleaning, the container maintenance department does an inspection and will complete any final repairs necessary to meet company standards. The dumpster is then painted and ready for delivery. Our container department takes pride in the quality of the equipment they send out.

Apple is 75% Renewable

A huge congratulations to Apple facilities around the United States. They set a goal of making their facilities run completely off of renewable energy sources and it looks like they have met their goal!

A combination of geothermal, wind, and solar—like their 100-acre solar farm next to their Maiden, North Carolina data center, pictured below—provide all the juice these facilities need, obviating the need for coal. Their latest data center, currently under construction in Oregon, will reportedly add hydropower to the list.

What a great example to many other companies out there who are considering becoming renewable facilities.

 Source: http://www.core77.com/blog/sustainable_design/apple_hits_100_renewable_energy_at_all_data_centers_aims_for_companywide_renewable_energy_next_24624.asp

Using Bales of Straw to Grow a Garden

Did you know that you can create a garden with a bale of straw? I would not believe it either had I not read the latest article in the New York Times about a man who is already doing this. Not only is he doing this in his spare time he wrote a book about it.

It was Mr. Karsten’s clever notion to condition the bale with a little fertilizer and water, creating a kind of instant compost pile. “The crust of the bale decomposes slowly,” he said. This is the vessel. The inside, which decays faster, “is our potting mix.” Stick a soaker hose on top, then plug some tomato seedlings into a hole gouged out of the straw. Time to wash the taint of barnyard off your hands: you’ve got a vegetable garden.

Check out the the rest of the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/garden/grasping-at-straw-a-foolproof-vegetable-plot.html

Composting Made Easy

Considering Solar Panels on the Roof?

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Kudos to you if you have considered adding solar panels to your house. However, thinking about it and doing it are quite different things. Consider the following article from The Good Human which outlines many ideas to consider before outfitting your house with solar panels.

For example, do you rent or own your home?

How long do you plan on living in your home?

What kind of exposure to sunlight does your roof get?

Check out the answers and more here: http://thegoodhuman.com/2012/10/31/is-my-house-a-good-candidate-for-solar/

Closing the Loop - An Interesting Study

Closing the Loop: Risk or Reward? from Sustainable Brands

Eco Destinations

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Vacations are a time to relax, have fun and forget about the worries of today. If one of those worries happen to be about the environment, then we have a solution for you. Travel to an Eco Destination for your next vacation.

In today’s fragile environment, there are a number of vacation getaways and romantic destinations that are both luxurious and eco-friendly.

Check out the Top 5 by clicking here: http://www.ways2gogreenblog.com/2013/02/25/guest-post-top-5-eco-destinations-for-green-travelers/

The Problem With Plastic Waste

It's no secret that figuring out what to do with plastic after it has been used is complicated. Unlike other recyclable material, plastic typically has a petroleum base which means it is non-renewable. However, plastic can be reused by breaking it down and to it's base level to be rebuilt into a new product. An example is the plastic found in automobiles.

All 40 kinds of plastics used in a North American automobile can be recycled, the need to separate and clean them makes using them more expensive than using virgin plastic resins. This translates into a higher proportion of plastics in the remnants of shredded end-of-life automobiles – a contaminated mixture of plastics and non-plastics that is usually disposed of through some combination of landfilling, incineration, and secondary recycling.

Read more about new promising ideas to make plastic a recyclable product at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/boosting-global-plastics-recycling-by-marino-xanthos#ZRk3XvwT7zXxXRvJ.99