The Harrison family wishes one and all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

As we celebrate our 75-year anniversary, we are reminded of the values our parents, E.J. and Myra, instilled in us – the importance of family, health and giving back. We are proud of the service we have provided our customers and communities through the years, and are most thankful that our mother remains with the company she co-founded in 1932, and joins us in wishing you a joyous Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!

Jim, Myron and Ralph Harrison

Recycle Your Christmas Tree

E.J. Harrison & Sons and the City of Ventura make it easy for you to recycle your Christmas tree.

All you need to do is remove the ornaments, hooks, lights, tinsel, bows, nails and tree stand. Cut the tree into four-foot sections and place in your yard waste barrel on your scheduled pickup day.
Please remember that flocked trees cannot be recycled.

Trees we collect will be processed into various sizes of mulch at California Wood Recycling. The material is used by Agromin to make several products that benefit our farmlands, orchards, nurseries and our own gardens.

Extra Trash Allowed After Holidays

Residents may put out twice the amount of trash at no extra charge during the two weeks following Christmas. Please make sure the trash is in bags. We also will collect extra recyclables, but please make sure to flatten all boxes.

Starting January 1, residential City streets will be swept once a month on the day after trash collection in most Ventura neighborhoods. Designed to make it easier for residents to remember which day to move cars and motor homes off the street, the new schedule will follow the same trash collection routes used by E.J. Harrison & Sons. Visit the City’s website at www.cityofventura.net to find your new sweeping day or call 652-4514 to request information.

Residents are encouraged to move vehicles by 7 a.m. on their neighborhood street sweeping day so that sweepers can pick up more trash and debris along the curb. Regular street cleaning keeps such debris as leaves, pet wastes and sediments from entering storm drains. As Ventura’s storm drains flow directly to the ocean, reducing this type of pollution is beneficial to the beaches, public health and the marine environment. Cleaner storm drains also flood less, preventing property damage during storms.

A few areas with posted street sweeping signs requiring vehicles to be removed from the streets will not change schedules at this time. The posted streets include Pierpont, Montalvo, Saratoga, Aurora and North Bank.

Sweeping will follow the same holiday schedule used by the trash collection routes so that trash and sweeping will be delayed one day following select

Regular street cleaning keeps such debris
as leaves, pet wastes and sediments from entering the storm drains.

holidays. For a list of holidays, check the 2008 holiday schedule below or call 647-1414.

Roads in commercial and industrial areas and arterial streets are swept twice monthly at night when traffic is light. Some highly used public areas, such as Ventura’s downtown, are swept every weekday.

Every day, sweepers pick up around 15 cubic yards of mixed materials, which is mostly yard waste. The most common litter collected by the sweepers includes fast food wrappers and cigarette butts. The green waste is recycled into compost, which helps the environment and reduces solid waste going to the landfill. Residents can help by using a broom and dustpan to remove litter and other debris, which collects along the curb fronting your home.

Harrison Honors Ventura and Residents for Recycling Efforts

Harrison Industries held its 75th anniversary celebration on Nov. 27, and used the occasion to recognize the City of Ventura and its residents and businesses for their successful recycling efforts with a plaque of appreciation.

The California Resource Recovery Association this summer honored Harrison as the state’s Outstanding Recycling Program for 2007. We are proud of the honor, but we couldn’t have earned it without the help of the City of Ventura and its residents.

California’s Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 requires all cities and counties to cut the amount of trash they send to landfills in half. The state’s overall diversion rate stands at 52 percent, but Ventura is far ahead of the average with an impressive 67 percent diversion rate. That’s one of the best rates in the state!

What a great job! You are doing your part to reduce global warming by recycling. The less we send to landfills means less methane gas produced worldwide, and cleaner air for all to breathe.

Keep up the good work, and keep following “The Three R’s” – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Also make sure you have the correct level of service to meet your trash and recycling needs. For more information please go to the City’s Environmental Services website at www.venturasenvironment.com.

Harrison also honored its other client cities – Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Ojai, Fillmore, Santa Paula and Carpinteria – as well as the County of Ventura, California State University at Channel Islands and the Ventura Unified School District for their recycling efforts.

Harrison was founded during the Great Depression in 1932 by E.J. Harrison, who fashioned a truck from several car bodies and began making a modest living by hauling his neighbors’ trash to the Ventura dumps. Harrison’s young wife Myra helped with the books.

Seventy-five years later, Myra Harrison remains with the company as founder. Her oldest son Ralph is president while her other sons Jim and Myron serve as vice presidents.

Harrison Industries is one of the oldest and largest privately owned trash collection businesses in the United States, serving over 80,000 customers.

E.J. Harrison & Sons
Recycling, Yard Waste and Trash Guidelines

What goes in the Trash?

Hopefully, very little.

After you have recycled, composted, filled the yard waste cart, donated old clothing and goods, and done all of those good things and more– most of the rest can go in the trash.

How to Place Your Cart for Automated Collection
The automated arm of the collection truck needs room to grab the cart. Carts should be placed 2-3 feet apart from each other and from objects such as mailboxes and cars with the wheels facing the curb.

Carts should be out by 7:00 a.m. on collection days.

What Doesn't go in the Trash or any other cart?

STOP No Hazardous Waste!!

These items are NOT accepted for Trash or Recycling.

Hazardous Waste Tires TVs/Computer Monitors Batteries

Closed Containers Oil or Paints Fluorescent Light Tubes Medical Needles

For information on how to dispose of these items, please call:
Ventura: 652-4525 / Ojai: 658-4323