Groundwerx Environmental Commitment: Whenever practical, Groundwerx provides services using equipment and products that have a lesser impact on people and the environment.

• Use products that contain the highest percentage of post-consumer recovered material, the highest percentage of total recovered material available in the marketplace, and reduce waste in the manufacturing and use of products and packaging purchased.
• Procure environmentally preferable goods and services where environmental criteria have been established by governmental or other widely recognized authorities.
• Address water conservation requirements: utilization is not to exceed 30% beyond usage levels documented for 2006.

The days of noisy leaf blowing are over. The Groundwerx clean teams, under the direction of the PBID's primary vendor, Service Group, Inc., use versatile Applied Green Machines to sweep the streets. These people-friendly sweepers use only two gallons of gas per day while producing unequaled, quiet vacuum power, and virtually no dust.

The Tenant M20 scrubbers provide a level of environmentally conscious deep cleaning that leads its industry. The M20 recycles the cleaning solution and uses less water, which results in less waste. The unit uses a NFSI (National Floor Safety Institute) certified Foam-activated Scrubbing (FaST) system that leaves sidewalks virtually dry after each pass. The scrubbers and sweepers will make an immediate impact, but the real proof will come over time as downtown sidewalk surfaces reach a new level of cleanliness.

The Groundwerx teams augment the Redevelopment Agency and Anti-Graffiti program efforts in the downtown core. Ambassadors are trained to report instances of graffiti to the Anti-Graffiti program, thus enabling the city's graffiti-abatement program to improve responsiveness. In addition to reporting graffiti, the clean team members cover up the smaller graffiti, which allows the Anti-Graffiti program to focus on larger issues. This type of coordinated effort results in a more efficient approach to solving the graffiti problem.

Groundwerx gave the Children’s Discovery Museum Duck a good washin’ today.  Clean team supervisors and workers scrubbed and pressure washed Ducky from its yellow head to webbed feet.  After the Groundwerx administered bath, Ducky will oversee the big rubber duck race this weekend at Vasona before going into storage . . . the just opened CDM exhibit “Mammoth Discovery” will feature a new inflatable mascot on the museum roof of . . . you guessed it — a mammoth!

Groundwerx also does special projects from time to time!