Our Mission
 
“Keep the community clean, beautiful, and safe” by exceeding its customer’s highest service expectations.
 
The Environmental Waste Services Department continually trains employees to work safer. Safety is woven through the fabric of the organization.  It’s The Way We Do Business!
 
Corporate Profile
 
The Environmental Waste Services Department is a municipal entity of the City of Garland, Texas, and is accountable for its financial performance and service delivery for citizens and local businesses to a number of key stakeholders including the citizens of Garland, City Management, and City Council.
 
 
Our Commitment
 
The department is committed to a foundation of financial strength, operating excellence, high quality customer service, professionalism, and compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations.
 
This makes us an integral part of the Garland community where we do business.  Our customers are also our neighbors, associates, family and friends.  We serve the Garland Independent School District that teaches our own children.  The businesses that we serve are the businesses that serve us as customers.  The hospitals, police and fire departments, government and civic organizations that we serve are the ones that shape the community we live in, too.
 
For all these reasons, we have a special stake in helping the community be better places to work and live.  It is a responsibility that we take to heart.
 
 
Philosophy of Community Service and Giving
 
The Environmental Waste Services Department prides itself on its community involvement, environmental awareness, and is committed to enhancing our community through programs that help make it cleaner and a better place to live by providing in-kind (free) services to the Housing Department’s Home Projects, Chamber of Commerce, homeowner association community clean ups and events such as Night Out Against Crime; community sponsored events such as Christmas on the Square, Star Spangled 4th, Asian Festival, Hispanic Heritage Banquet, Garland Symphony, NAACP Freedom Fund, Fraternal Order of Police, Hella Shriners Temple, GISD Band Fest, etc.
 
Employees of the Environmental Waste Services Department are one of the largest contributors of funds to the United Way campaign, and voluntarily collect food, clothing, toys and other household items to benefit local charities such as the New Beginning Center, Toys for Tots, Good Samaritans, and Salvation Army or local families in need.
 
Employees voluntarily do an annual watershed clean-up event as part of the City of Garland’s Adopt-A-Spot Program.