Mission and Values

Cedar Grove Composting is committed to:

• Maintain a leadership role nationally in the development of innovative methods in the composting process, including odor management, and marketing of recycled products.
• Design products that take life-cycle thinking into account and minimize environmental impacts in production, use and disposal.
• Develop products from recovered organic waste material with economically sustainable local markets.
• Find the highest and best use for the amount of material that has not been incorporated into a salable product.
• Practice environmentally sensitive manufacturing, applying the best available control technology to product manufacturing areas, while managing with an Environmental Management System consistent with the principles of ISO 14001.
• Design operational units to minimize impact to the environment.
• Recognize impacts from the processing facility concerning the community and participate in open discussions with local citizens to work through issues.
• Continuously strive to reduce air emissions to levels below the nuisance threshold.

To achieve our mission, we must:

• Attract, motivate and retain highly trained, safe employees
• Ensure that reduce, reuse, recycle come before waste disposal
• Employ management with deep composting and recycling experience that understand our customers' needs
• Provide local processing to reduce environmental risk and lower transportation costs
• Deliver consistent customer service, from on-time pickup to accurate record keeping
• Display environmental integrity through solid relationships with government authorities
• Maintain greater than required financial assurance, including closure funds for our facilities and a $10 million insurance policy

With your help, we will do our part to ensure that the Northwest remains a great place to live and work.