Greening up isn’t a trend you’ve loved and left, like pointy-toed shoes and shaggy haircuts. You’re living it. You reuse, you recycle, you even precycle (that means avoiding wasteful packaging to begin with). You care.

Those efforts are paying off.

In 2007, Americans prevented 40 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions (the crap largely responsible for global warming) by doing everything from switching to Energy Star appliances to unplugging cell phone chargers. In 2008, you drove 3.5 percent less; since the average car spews more than 11,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, that should also help lower air pollution.

Still, there’s a lot of greening to be done. Most objective researchers agree that pollution remains a massive problem, and easy-access clean water a distant hope for much of our planet. Last year was one of the hottest on record since 1880. Just ask our friend the polar bear…if you can find one.  It recently made the endangered species list; the ice floes the animals called home have been melting and may be gone by 2012. The overheated atmosphere is taking a toll on humans as well.

Recently, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned the International Rescue Committee that global warming and other environmental issues have displaced seven times more people than war has. “Climate change encompasses everything from water quality to land management to the health of our communities,” Carol Browner, the new assistant to the President for energy and climate change, tells Glamour. “It’s unlike any environmental challenge we’ve ever faced before.” In the 70 years Glamour’s been around, we’ve made major inroads with sexism and racism. Now we’ll be fighting for environmentalism, too, over the next 70 years and beyond.

At RJ DJ & Party Service, in addition to providing quality entertainment and great customer service, we believe it is our duty to be environmentally responsible. By making changes for the better, we are committed to developing business practices that improve our products, processes and facilities by making them more eco-friendly.

Like the eco-friendly industry, our we've gone green program is still in its infancy. As we continue to research and learn more, we will implement new knowledge and new products as soon as possible. In order to live up to our core values and our reputation, we are attempting to be very diligent with regards to the accuracy of our claims. We will not change just for the sake of change, or more importantly, to follow a trend. We are becoming environmentally responsible while simultaneously retaining our focus on “High Customer Service Standards,” “Quality in Everything We Do” and “Community Involvement.”

In addition, we will not sacrifice sanitation and safety for the sake of eco-friendliness. Our goal is to reduce our non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, and non-renewable waste 65% by the end of 2010 by taking the following initiatives. While some have already been implemented, we are still working towards others.

Completed Initiatives

Changing out ALL lightbulbs in the our offices to energy efficient fluorescent bulbs.
Installation of water saving toliet(s) in our bathrooms. The toliet still works but it uses half the water.
Insulaing storage areas to reduce heat loss in the winter.
Half of our garage door style doors have been replaced with higher insulation models, also to reduce heat loss.
Placing recycling bins and papper scredders at each office work station.
Placing 30+ gallon recyling toters outside ALL warehouses to encourage employees to recyle ALL recyclables included the daily trash from the trucks.
We have began to use recyled paper for most of our printing and hope to use 100% recyled paper soon.

Initiatives In-Progress
TerraPass Carbon Footprint Balance
Green Certification(s)
Recyled paper for ALL of our advertising using organic inks.
Solar Panels and Wind Generators as a power suppliment to the primary COMED connection.
Purchase of Two Mode Hybrid Chevy Silverados and Tahoes

If you have any ideas to add to this list just give us a call at (708) 825-3565 or (847) 348-0487!