Utah resources
Sustainable business resources in Utah
Below is a list of products and services from USBC members right here in Utah that can help you to advance the sustainability of your business practices. Click on the member’s name to jump to a detailed description of their offering.
Built environment: design, development, realty & coworking space
Events & food rescue
Food & beverage products
Lifestyle sustainability
Renewable energy
Sustainable business consulting & support
- BanQu: supply chain traceability
- EcoAct: sustainability consulting
- Merrimak Capital: asset decommissioning and resale services
- P3 Utah: sustainable business support
- Right On: sustainability content strategy and marketing
- Salt Lake City: e2 sustainable business support program
- Silverline: communications consulting
- Trinity Consultants: sustainability consulting
- University of Utah IIAC No-Cost Energy Audits
- Viridescent: sustainability consulting
Transportation & electric vehicles
Waste diversion: recycling, reuse, donation, e-waste
USBC member services
ACE Recycling & Disposal
ACE Recycling and Disposal is a local waste hauler who offers waste diversion services to our customers which include single-stream recycling, cardboard recycling, metal recycling, and food waste composting. We partner with a variety of recycling facilities along the Wasatch Front in order to provide customers with sustainable solutions to their waste needs. Aside from providing hauling services, ACE sells waste compactors and balers.
BanQu Supply Chain Traceability
BanQu is a fully digitized and secure platform for true 360° supply chain traceability. BanQu’s Software-as-a-Service allows you to know who your farmers, waste collectors, and laborers are; verify they received payment; track the full chain of custody; and prove product provenance and sustainability to consumers with a QR code. BanQu is customizable for any use case and gives you real-time reports on your ESG metrics.
Bobelo Reduced Waste Beverages
Bobelo is the first self-carbonating drink mix in the world. It is healthy, hydrating, full of flavor, and sustainable. Bobelo helps Utah businesses to eliminate plastic and aluminum waste in the breakroom or home office with our healthy drink mix options for reusable water bottles.
Bobelo contains Zero sugar or artificial ingredients and has three product lines which reduce stress, build immune systems and delivers natural energy, meant to replace unhealthy and wasteful beverages in bottles and cans, all at a fraction of the cost. In 2021, Bobelo has eliminated over 30,000 lbs. of sugar and almost half a million plastic bottles and cans from Utah businesses! Bobelo is a member of 1% for the planet and is a certified Benefit Corporation.
Creative Energies Solar Renewable Energy Solutions
With over 20 years of solar installation experience, Creative Energies works closely with homeowners and businesses alike to meet their renewable energy goals in the intermountain west. Our community-facing approach has earned us rapport with the communities we serve.
In addition to providing solar solutions for folks across Utah, Creative Energies utilizes Cascade Eco Minerals (CEM) as a solution for solar panel recycling. We collect broken or damaged panels and ship them to CEM who then focuses on solar glass recycling. 72% of solar panels are composed of glass which CEM turns into cullet, blended glass, light-weight beads, and glass beads for special applications. CEM makes a point of recycling all parts of the solar panel, not just the glass, so that nothing ends up in the landfill. According to CEM, they are “the only solar panel processor that provides complete in-house solar panel recycling and remineralization.” Creative Energies is dedicated to finding solutions that support a more circular economy. Creative Energies is certified Benefit Corporation (B Corp).
Dayhouse Studio Sustainable and Biophilic Interior Design
Inspired by nature, we empower health, sustainability, and well-being with our most fundamental tool – connection. We are an interior design company integrating biophilic design, aesthetics, and functionality to connect people with nature and self-care. As a research-backed firm, we bring the health benefits of nature, physical activities, music, social support, relaxation, and more.
Our multifaceted and tailored approach designs every room around client-specific health needs. We enable clients to receive health benefits accrued outdoors while enjoying their indoor environments by implementing diverse lighting strategies, views of nature, biomorphic patterns, plants and fresh flowers, natural materials, sounds and smells from nature, and other features. Our unique design framework puts mental, physical, and environmental health first. We are changing the way our clients and our communities interact with indoor landscapes by bringing us back to our roots. Welcome home.
EcoAct Sustainability Consulting
EcoAct, an Eviden business, is an international climate consultancy and project developer that supports companies to set robust science-aligned net-zero strategies and achieve their climate targets. Founded in France in 2006, the company now spans three continents with offices in Paris, London, Barcelona, New York, Montréal, Munich, Milan and Kenya.
With a team of more than 360 international climate experts, EcoAct’s core purpose is to lead the way in delivering sustainable business solutions that deliver true value for both climate and client. EcoAct is a CDP Gold Partner, a founding member of ICROA, a strategic partner in the implementation of the Gold Standard for the Global Goals and reports to the UN Global Compact. To learn more, visit www.eco-act.com.
Ecobabe Collective
In a trend a minute world, it can be so hard to learn how to live a sustainable life, without sacrificing style. As an ex-fast fashion junkie, Jessica wanted to create a welcoming space for people to learn how to live a more eco-friendly life. Jessica Cobabe is a fashion stylist, entrepreneur and the founder and creator of Ecobabe Collective, Where Sustainability + Style Collide. Every week tune in for hot tips from industry leaders on how to live and shop more consciously, rework your wardrobe, and adopt a clean and cruelty-free beauty routine. Stop buying sh*t you don’t need and learn how to refine and define your own signature style so you can side-step trends that aren’t really you and dance to the beat of your own drum, in style.
Listen to the Ecobabe Collective podcast on Libsyn, Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Giv Group Sustainable Community Development
Giv Group exists to foster vibrant, sustainable, and balanced communities throughout the U.S. Intermountain West. It believes that how we use our land has a profound impact on who we are and that healthy food, safe housing, clean air, and meaningful connection should be available to everyone regardless of background or economic status.
Giv’s intentional pairing of nonprofit and socially-driven for profit organizations allows it a broad toolset to get there. From historic preservation to catalytic development, area planning to operational support, Giv-owned projects to community partner facilitation, we look to help neighborhoods turn their best ideas into places they can connect with and call home.
Leaders for Clean Air EV Fleet and Charging Solutions
Leaders for Clean Air is a 501(c)(3) non-profit committed to improving Utah’s air quality by providing electric vehicle charging stations to Utah businesses, implementing large-scale electric charger projects, and promoting the benefits of electric vehicle technology. Incentive procurement, electric vehicle charger (EVC) education, electric fleet consultation, installation recommendations, and creative solutions to challenges are just some of the ways we help our clients ease the process of installing EVC’s. Supported by local business leaders who recognize that workplace charging is the key to bending the curve on electric vehicle adoption, Leaders for Clean Air believes in making a positive impact on pollution levels to ensure cleaner air and a higher quality of life for all Utahns.
LUX Catering & Events Sustainable and Zero Waste Catering
The LUX team is your guide to creating a zero-waste event. There are so many simple ways to produce a green event – such as sustainable rentals and linen options, coordination of mass transit, offering guests public transportation, menus featuring local ingredients – which helps to boost community revenue and reduce our carbon footprint, paperless proposals and invitations, eco-friendly centerpiece options, and SO much more. We are Utah’s most award winning and highest rated catering and event companies – come experience the LUX difference.
Merrimack Capital Asset Decommissioning and Resale Services
Merrimak Capital is a diverse lessor and asset resale company based in Salt Lake City. Serving over 25% of Fortune 500 companies and the like, Merrimak provides transparent and competitive financing structures for all types of equipment while focusing on material handling, tractor-trailer, IT and copy/print. Merrimak owns and operates its own warehouses where we refurbish and resell off-lease equipment.
Through our decommission and asset resale services, we maximize resale values for customer owned assets while adhering to strict chain of custody protocols and sustainable recycling. Merrimak offers custom and comprehensive web-based asset tracking. Our business is focused on delivering comprehensive equipment lifecycle management and maximum flexibility throughout the life of the lease resulting in unprecedented customer retention rates. Merrimak anticipates having more than a billion dollars of original equipment costs under management in its company-owned portfolio by 2022.
Momentum Recycling Services
Momentum provides glass, mixed, and food waste recycling collection services for commercial businesses in Salt Lake and Summit County as well as select parts of Weber and Utah County.
At the end of each month, we send out Diversion Reports to the company which quantifies how many pounds of recyclables were diverted from the landfill from their recycling efforts. These reports also help track how many tons of Co2 were conserved through recycling that month.
Individual customers can sign up for a glass recycling bin that will be picked up monthly at their home residence. We also are conducting a food waste recycling pilot program open to select SLC residents.
To complement our collection services, Momentum Recycling organizations maximize recycling efforts by identifying the recyclable materials in their waste streams through comprehensive waste audits.
Momentum Recycling also has public glass drop off dumpsters throughout the community that allows individuals to recycle their glass free of charge.
To sign up for any of these recycling services or learn where to find a glass drop off location, please visit our website: https://utah.momentumrecycling.com/
P3 Utah Sustainable Business Support
P3 Utah has been providing support to sustainable businesses since 2012. In that time, we have produced eight in person state business sustainability conferences and conducted several dozen best practice tours of area businesses. We have passed state laws to make Utah one of only a half dozen U.S. states and territories offering both benefit corporation and benefit LLC triple bottom line business registration. We promoted expanded incentives in purchasing and plan review for triple bottom line businesses in Salt Lake City. We provide technical assistance and best practice information on our website, including:
100 podcasts, primarily featuring local sustainability leaders;
Social and sustainable enterprise resource list called the SASE Database;
2021 benefit company webinars;
Business Sustainability Impact Matrix to guide sustainability program management;
State benefit company information center; and
Sustainable business toolkit produced in all official U.N. languages.
P3 Utah will be providing additional resources and programs for sustainable businesses, including:
Benefit company owner networking;
Chief sustainability officer GreenX green team problems solving sessions;
Global power-of-business impact leveraging webinar series;
Membership program including sustainability program technical assistance;
Online sustainable business certification program;
Advocacy for the national 30 Percent By 2030 land and water conservation program; and
Virtual best practice tours and networking events.
Recyclops Recycling Services
Recyclops provides easy access to subscription-based recycling services for residences and businesses. So far they’ve recycled over 250 tons of material and are rapidly expanding that impact across both their home state of Utah and the entire United States. Their innovative business model enables drivers to use their personal vehicles for pickups, which results in a much smaller carbon footprint compared to using traditional recycling trucks.
Right On Sustainability Content Strategy and Marketing
Right On creates sustainability narratives that blend emotion and data—so brands can change the way their audiences think, feel, and act. With our team of expert content strategists and creatives, we give voice to the human stories just waiting to be told, support them with relatable data, and keep the narratives going across a range of mediums and channels—from sustainability reports to thought leadership content to interactive experiences and beyond.
Salt Lake City e2 Sustainable Business Support Program
Salt Lake City’s e2 Business program is dedicated to helping Salt Lake’s business community run in a more environmentally and economically sustainable manner. Salt Lake City’s e2 Business program is entirely funded and managed by the city. Participation is free to any business located within Salt Lake City limits. Participating businesses receive expert consultation and guidance in incorporating sustainable business practices that will save money and reduce their impact on the environment. e2 Business members receive free sustainability consulting and strategizing from City experts, networking events, e2 Business newsletters, promotion in e2 Program-sponsored underwriting and advertising, and access to energy efficiency revolving loan fund and project support from SLC Green staff. Read about our e2 business success stories and members on the website.
Silverline Sustainability Communications Consulting
Silverline is a sustainability communications firm offering thought leadership, media relations and digital marketing. Learn more about how Silverline builds trust between climate-forward brands and stakeholders by visiting their site.
The Shop Carbon Neutral Coworking
The Shop Workspace is proud to be the first carbon-neutral co-working space in Salt Lake City. The Shop works diligently at ensuring its environmental footprint stays small by promoting plastic, cardboard, and glass recycling, donating leftover food from events to Wasteless Solutions, and encouraging our member base to utilize our top-of-the-line technology to make it easier to connect and share information without printing additional copies.
Summit Realty Professionals LLC
Brian Perkes is the Broker-Owner of Summit Realty Professionals, LLC, and one of the few EcoBrokers in Utah. We are a full-service real estate brokerage, helping people buy and sell residential and investment property. We are committed to keeping Utah beautiful and elevating the quality of life for our communities. Please get in touch with us for additional details and program requirements.
Trinity Consultants Sustainability Consulting
Trinity Consultants, Inc., with a local office in Salt Lake City, provides deep expertise in environmental, health and safety (EHS), engineering, and science services. They offer consulting, technology, training and staffing services. Their ESG and Sustainability practice provides comprehensive climate change and sustainability program support to companies across many industries.
University of Utah IIAC No-Cost Energy Audits
The University of Utah’s Intermountain Industrial Assessment Center (IIAC), funded by the Department of Energy, offers no-cost energy assessments to select Utah participants with the mission of reducing participant utility costs. These technical services directly support any participant goals for utility cost reductions, net zero, corporate social responsibility, climate neutrality, etc. while also providing university students a direct social impact experience.
Participation involves a team of top-tier students and university faculty visiting your facility to perform a one-day technical assessment. The team will provide a technical report detailing opportunities to save at least 10% on utility costs; individual recommendations within the report typically target simple payback periods of 2 years or less.
Selected participants are asked to spend up to 10 hours with the team through the full process which may include providing brief, advance information (e.g., utility bills), providing a business and production process overview, hosting the University team on-site for one day, and participating in a follow-up implementation survey. Apply or contact us to learn more by following the links to the left.
Viridescent Sustainability Consulting
Welcome to the #VIRIVERSE ♾, where YOUR story as a change-making hero comes to life. VIRIDESCENT, B.L.L.C. is a mentorship and storytelling platform on a mission to unlock a sustainable way of living and working. Our partners are aspiring change-makers, organizations, communities, and industries that want to take action on social and environmental issues.
By partnering with VIRIDESCENT, YOU are transported into the #VIRIVERSE ♾, an immersive world of your own sustainability impact brought to life through our mentorship, education, consulting, events, workshops, and stories.
We offer expertise on storytelling, life balance, emotional intelligence, and design/systems thinking for sustainable careers (entrepreneurs & intrapreneurs), businesses, communities, and industries.
Begin your #VIRIVERSE ♾ quest…
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Email karla.g@viridescent.biz & schedule a discovery call.
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Waste Less Solutions Food Waste Diversion
Waste Less Solutions is a nonprofit dedicated to the education, prevention and diversion of food waste in Utah. As part of our mission, we operate a food rescue program in Salt Lake and Utah counties to ensure edible surplus food gets to people in need rather than ending up in landfills. Food wasting in our landfills emits methane gas which is 23x worse for our environment than carbon dioxide. Additionally, there are approximately 500,000 people who go hungry in Utah every year, so it does not make sense that edible food is thrown away.
Waste Less Solutions solves the logistical problem of excess food in one place and not enough food in another. We rescue food from caterers, cafeterias, small restaurants, food distributors, farmers markets as well as from backyard gardens. Our volunteers use their own cars and our smartphone app to locate and pick up food and take it to our nonprofit partners who can distribute to their under-served clientele.
To date, we have rescued 600,000 pounds of food which is the equivalent of 500,000 meals for people in need. We are the only organization of its kind in Utah and without us thousands of pounds of edible food would end up in the landfill. If you are a food organization or a business with a cafeteria or on-site catering we’d love to partner with you to rescue your surplus food. Additionally, we are always looking for more enthusiastic volunteers to help rescue food, help us locate more food donors as well as to help us grow our organization.
Wholesale Nuts and Dried Fruit Reduced Waste Products
Wholesale Nuts And Dried Fruit was started two years ago right here in Utah. First started by the airport in the Salt Lake City transportation hub. Now, we are in Bluffdale, Utah. For customers all over America we send them fresh nuts, dried fruit, and seeds in bulk amounts. Saving them from purchasing single use plastics, over and over, in small amounts. Our entire business is based on saving customers from purchasing one or two pounds at a time. Customers come to us that want wholesale pricing on fresh ingredients.
WipeDrive E-Waste Reducing Services
WipeDrive has been a Utah company since 1998 and is the industry leader in computer erasure. WipeDrive decreases e-waste by enabling customers to erase their hard drives and SSDs which allows the reuse of a computer’s storage devices instead of shredding, drilling, or otherwise disposing of them.
WipeDrive also supports the development of a circular economy by offering computer diagnostic tools and erasure verification tools that extend the service life of technology devices.
WipeDrive is offering 20 free credits to all fellow USBC members, request them at https://bit.ly/3mWA8HB.