Green Business Leaders

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The City of Phoenix Green Business Leader Program recognizes and promotes businesses that volunteer to operate in a more environmentally responsible manner through sustainable actions.

Become a Green Business Leader Today!

Download the Green Business Checklist and submit your application to the Zero Waste Team to enhance your business’s sustainability and join the movement toward a greener future!

Submit your application today!

The City of Phoenix Green Business Leader Program recognizes and promotes businesses that volunteer to operate in a more environmentally responsible manner through sustainable actions. Businesses receive many benefits to be a part of the program.

The program also assists the city in reaching its eight overarching 2050 Environmental Sustainability goals.

To be eligible for the Green Business program, your business must:

Be located within Phoenix city limits
Must achieve a minimum of 15 action items on the Green Business checklist
(If applicable) Provide the City of Phoenix with quarterly metrics on the percentage of waste your business is diverting from the landfill

Join the 100+ Green Businesses in Phoenix!

Full list of Green Businesses

1. Download the Green Business checklist and mark off what actions your business is doing.

2. Submit your completed Green Business checklist.

3. A Zero Waste team member will reach out and schedule a brief walk-through at your business to confirm all of your checked items.

4. If all prerequisites are met, then your business will become a Phoenix Green Business!

Green Business Checklist

Submit completed checklist

Green Business Map

Benefits

The program has three levels of certification. Businesses achieve higher certifications by achieving more sustainable actions. Higher certifications also have more benefits.

Water Efficiency Check-ups

As an added benefit to the program, the Phoenix Water Department provides free water efficiency check-ups, to help identify potential water conservation opportunities in the workplace. Check out the Water Department's water smart tip sheets.

Green Business Spotlight

R.City

R. City's mission is to connect residents and businesses to local farming, closing the gap in society between our food and where it comes from, and reducing food waste from entering our landfills.

R.City began its service in 2013. The inspiration behind it sprouted from the idea of creating a full-circle service by sending food waste to the same farmer that provides your produce. All of the food waste they collect goes directly to their farm where they compost it themselves. The then use the finished compost on the farm to grow produce (without the use of chemicals or pesticides). The produce is then available for purchase – completing the full-circle service.

Green Business Spotlight

Mill

Mill makes it easy to prevent food waste at home with an innovative new kitchen experience and pathways that keep food out of landfills. Mill was founded in 2020 by Matt Rogers and Harry Tannenbaum, who worked together at Nest, building the iconic Nest Learning Thermostat and other smart home products. The lessons they learned about encouraging new habits at home that are good for people and the planet were applied in creating Mill to change our perception of waste, starting in the kitchen.

Two Moran Lumber employees assembling a wood pallet.

Green Business Spotlight

Moran Pallets

Moran Pallets & Wood Products is an industry-leading wooden lumber manufacturer specializing in new pallets, stakes and lath of all sizes and refurbished 48x40 pallets. Since 1963, the family owned and operated business has been serving the Southwestern United States with best-in-class lumber products coupled with best-in-class service. Their team of experts can design and build custom pallets to meet your exact specifications, ensuring that products are transported safely and effectively. They take pride in being an Arizona Sustainable Business, helping to save 40,000+ trees and counting, while providing cost-effective, sustainable solutions for your business. Their dedicated recycling facility solely supports our 48x40 Pallet Buy Back program.

Green Business Spotlight

HDR, Inc.

HDR Inc. specializes in architecture, engineering, environmental and construction services. As an employee-owned firm, HDR drives sustainability within its own organization and through the execution of clients' infrastructure projects. HDR has over 25 years of sustainability leadership with more than 600 accredited sustainability professionals working on client projects. Certified Platinum since November 2021, HDR Inc. has incorporated sustainability into the framework of the organization. To learn more about HDR Inc. and their sustainability efforts, please visit their website.