1. Civicorps Schools
Recycling
Earned Income Venture
Civicorps Schools
Bruce Groulx

2. Recycling Program Overview
 Single Stream Recycling collecting 100 tons
per month from 177 accounts.
 Aluminum, tin, glass, all plastics and all paper
types collected in the same container.
 Collected recyclables sorted by 18
corpsmembers on a elevated sort system and
baled with a horizontal baler.
 Five collection routes servicing 1,848 recycling
carts, 218 dumpsters and five drop boxes each
week.

3. Strategy
 Civicorps provides weekly single stream
recycling service to 177 commercial accounts.
Civicorps provides service to municipalities,
universities, hospitals, regional parks, office
buildings, retail businesses, restaurants and
taverns.
 This program was chosen due to the ability to
provide meaningful employment training and
to meet the demands of a competitive market
place.

4. Target Market
 Target market: Any entity willing to recycle and
pay a service fee.
 Value proposition: A high level of flexible
professional service.
 Competitive advantage: A “Rodeo Drive”
recycling service and the organizational goals
of educating and training at risk young people.

5. Operations
 How does the program work? Five days a
week five collection vehicles collect
recyclables from routes and return to the
processing facility to weigh in and unload. The
material is sorted and baled.
 Civicorps collects: Aluminum, tin, glass and
#1- #6 plastic containers. Cardboard, mixed
paper and office paper is also collected.
 Collection vehicles, recycling containers, front
loader, forklift, sorting conveyors, baler and a
facility.

6. Financial Information
 $900,000 for used equipment to create
processing system. $400,000 for used
horizontal baler and $500,000 for collection
vehicles and recycling containers.
 Service fees range from $45 for bi weekly to
$4,000 per month for a multi dwelling complex.
 The program is not profitable. Revenue from
service fees and sale of recyclables is
$491,677 and the expenditures are $1.7
million.
 Could you operate this program without

7. Collaboration
 Satisfied customers, Recology East Bay
(Civicorps is subcontracted to provide
recycling service to their accounts), East Bay
Regional Parks, University of California and
numerous local governments who utilize the
recycling service.

8. Key Lessons
 Professional service critical.
 Quality control to insure clean recyclables to
sell.
 Develop contingency plans for equipment
failures to maintain service.
 Emphasis on corpsmember work performance.

9. Next Steps
 Increase the volume of recyclables.
 Expand our relationship with Recology East
Bay.
 Offer processing service to other recyclers.
 Explore any opportunity.

10. Questions

11. Thank You!