Green Bridge Growers uses innovative methods to grow sustainable, fresh produce for your table year-round. Our venture is also grounded in a strong social mission - to create jobs that harness the amazing skills of young adults with autism. We grow local, organic vegetables for our community, and those who buy from us help to create jobs and change lives.

Sustainability Matters: Recycling

As a social venture with an environmental purpose, we believe in recycling. Since recycling reduces the need for companies to harvest new raw materials, it reduces the amount of pollution that factories produce when processing raw materials. This helps to cut back on air pollution and water pollution, and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Manufacturers can cut air pollution by 73 percent and water pollution by 35 percent, according to the University of Central Oklahoma. Recycling also helps companies save money on manufacturing new plastic products from petroleum, and save money on mining and extraction costs. Recycling also helps significantly reduce the amount of waste that gets sent to landfills. When companies recycle plastic bottles, they can save up to 60 percent of the costs to produce new bottles. Also, if the whole world doubled the amount of aluminum it recycles, then we would keep more than a million tons of pollutants out of the atmosphere.

Now, recycling isn’t as simple as throwing all your recyclables into a bin and letting your recycling collector pick it up. So-called “single stream recycling”, or throwing all the recyclables into one bin without having to separate them, is convenient, but it results in less material actually being recycled. Roughly 25 percent of what we try to recycle is too contaminated to be able to be recycled, according to the National Waste and Recycling Association.