Tustin, Calif-based Mission Landscape Cos.’ Environmental Resource Center has earned the approval from the California Integrated Waste Management Board making it the only integrated landscape firm in California with a CIWMB-approved recycling facility and green waste center.
Additionally, all client plant debris is converted into United States Composting Council’s Seal of Testing Assurance-certified and environmentally clean compost, saving clients money while reducing the need for fertilizers, chemicals and water. There are only a select group of companies that have passed and received the USCC’s STA certification.
Mission’s compost also has been used successfully in wetland restoration and rebuilding slopes devastated by fire. This nutrient-rich compost has many additional benefits including suppressing weeds, reducing erosion and run-off, binding and degrading pollutants and enhancing plant health care. Also notable are the experiments being conducted to use compost as a source of renewable energy and to recycle palm fronds into usable compost that act as a longer-lasting slope stabilization agent. Compost is also being used in bioremediation of petroleum-contaminated soils.
David DuBois, CEO of the Mission Landscape Cos., said, “We see our value and role as environmental stewards, community citizens and landscape investment advisers. Land, whether a commercial site or a residential property, is a valuable and environmentally sensitive piece of real estate, and is an integral part of the community. If we don’t carefully blend the ecological components with community culture and economics, we’ll create a disruptive imbalance. If we successfully blend all three, everybody benefits.”