Partnering Together with The San Ysidro Community for a Green Cleanup on Earth Day

The folks behind the Las Americas Premium Outlets, a premier outlet mall located in the bustling San Diego community of San Ysidro, partnered with Junk King San Diego for a recycling event that took place on Friday, April 22, 2022.

As a part of the mall’s ongoing efforts to implement sustainable programs at the shopping center, Las Americas Premium Outlets reached out to the center’s tenants and the surrounding community and encouraged them to bring their large and hard-to-recycle junk items to the center. 

A significant aspect of the event was the presence of teams and trucks from Junk King San Diego. 

Their role was to collect the junk items being brought in so that could be processed for reuse and recycling. This event not only allowed their neighbors throughout the community an opportunity to recycle and reuse their unwanted junk items, but also resulted in the cleaning up of the center’s storage areas.

The Power of Partnering to Protect the Planet

Earth Day seems to have been a celebration since most of us can remember. But it hasn’t always been that way.

In fact, the event that we know as Earth Day only began just over 50 years ago.

Today, it may seem odd to think that there was a time when Americans didn’t have recycling bins at work, at school, and at home, as well as in shopping malls and outlet centers like Las Americas Premium Outlets. But it wasn’t always that way.

Prior to 1970, environmental issues had been largely overlooked or ignored. However, by the early 1960s, many Americans were becoming aware of the effects of pollution on our environment. One of the catalysts for this raised awareness was the publication of the 1962 bestseller Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The book highlighted the dangerous effects that pesticides were having on the American countryside.

Then, in 1969, a fire on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio dramatically underscored the pressing issue of industrial chemical waste disposal.

And, according to History.com,

“Until that time, protecting the planet’s natural resources was not part of the national political agenda, and the number of activists devoted to large-scale issues such as industrial pollution was minimal. Factories pumped pollutants into the air, lakes and rivers with few legal consequences. Big, gas-guzzling cars were considered a sign of prosperity. Only a small portion of the American population was familiar with – let alone practiced – recycling.”

This began to change as people across the nation began to rally to the cause of saving the environment and, in the process, saving the planet.

As an article from National Geographic recalls,

“The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, when a United States senator from Wisconsin organized a national demonstration to raise awareness about environmental issues. Rallies took place across the country and, by the end of the year, the U.S. government had created the Environmental Protection Agency. By 1990, Earth Day was an event celebrated by more than 140 countries around the globe.”

Earth Day Means “Thinking Globally While Acting Locally” – Including in San Diego   

While there are opportunities to recycle, reuse, and reduce everyday here in San Diego as well as across the country, there are annual events and promotions held every year on Earth Day. And the residents of San Diego are particularly active in protecting and preserving the beauty and health of the local environment.

However, it is the staging of Earth Day events and the enthusiasm surrounding them that truly brings the commitment of our community to the forefront of the environmental movement.

The Event

The Celebrate Earth Day event was hosted by Las Americas Premium Outlets on April 22, 2022. The goal of the event was to provide an arena and opportunity for members of the community to participate in recycling, reuse, and repurposing of unwanted items.

The problem that many residents face, including retail tenants in the outlet center, is the difficulty of recycling items such as old furniture, appliances, and electronic waste or e-waste. Homeowners and renters in and around the San Diego area often find themselves with unusable televisions, mattresses, and even old hot tubs that they don’t know how to properly dispose of.

These hard-to-recycle junk items and household rubbish often end up stored in garages, sheds, or just stacked in a corner of a backyard. 

Which is why the management of Las Americas Premium Outlets created their Celebrate Earth Day event – to offer an easy way for everyone to get rid of these items in an earth-friendly, green, and environmentally safe manner.

But, like most any effort that requires multiple resources and skills, they are rarely carried out alone.

The Partnership

Outlet malls are superb at providing great shopping experiences and great deals on merchandise. But when it comes to junk removal and disposal, not so much!

And simply tossing old equipment, residential junk, and other unwanted waste and debris into their commercial waste bins was not going to achieve their goal of a green and environmentally friendly junk disposal event.

Which is why they reached out to Junk King San Diego with the objective of forming a truly green and efficient partnership.

As it turns out, this was destined to be a natural relationship as many of the retail vendors in the outlet center are clients of Junk King San Diego. Knowing the green and Earth-friendly approach that Junk King takes with junk removal and disposal, and their stellar track record in recycling and reuse of junk materials, the management at Las Americas knew they would be perfect for this event.

Most people rarely think of junk removal and recycling as compatible functions or processes. But for those who are already familiar with Junk King San Diego, the two go together like peanut butter and jelly! That’s because Junk King is a genuinely green junk removal operation.

Their corporate beginnings were based on the creation of the country’s first recycling-based junk removal operation back in 2005. Today, all of our junk removal franchise partners operate around what we call warehouse recycling hubs where teams separate all the recyclable and reusable materials. 

Our goal at Junk King San Diego has always been to keep our landfills free of unnecessary items.

By partnering together, both Las Americas Premium Outlets and Junk King San Diego prepared to create a large-scale opportunity for collecting as much of the hard-to-recycle junk items and other materials as possible for Earth Day 2022.

The Results

The event was preceded with a major public relations effort through social media with the message,

Celebrate Earth Day with Las Americas Premium Outlets on April 22nd at 10am. Drop off your large and hard-to-recycle items with Junk King at Las Americas Premium Outlets. Junk King will reuse, repurpose, and recycle your items helping to make the Earth a greener place.

Reaching over 16,000 people in the San Diego/San Ysidro region, their social media posts garnered hundreds and hundreds of responses.

As a result, the partners saw an impressive turnout for the Celebrate Earth Day event and also saw a massive amount of hard-to-recycle waste and other junk materials. 

Collection results highlights:

• Junk King San Diego succeeded in filling four of their trucks with full loads
• They also completely filled a 40-cubic yard open top container
• More than 20 retailers managed clean out their storage areas and backrooms

The overall response from the partners, the community, and the various vendors in the outlet center was overwhelmingly and enthusiastically positive:

“We are happy the event was for free. I did 5 trips to donate racks, shelves and electronics.”

– U.S Polo Association Outlet Roberto

“The Recycling Event gave us the opportunity to have more space in our storage area. Hopefully, you can do more events to support the stores”

– Coach Outlet Xavier 

“Thank you for opening the event to the public. My sister sent me the link (SMS) and I had a couch to donate. Other places would charge me $70. So, the event was perfect for the community.”

– Customer

The overall turnout was what they would have expected for what has now been deemed the “First Annual Celebrate Earth Day” event at Las Americas Premium Outlets.

However, the partners agreed that the response from those who participated warranted making it an annual event and plans are already underway to make next year’s event bigger and better. With a population of almost 30,000 residents just in the San Ysidro region alone – and over 120 stores operating in the Las Americas Premium Outlet center, the partners are looking forward to seeing thousands of participants in the future events each year to come.

A Green Solution to Your Junk Removal Problem: Junk King San Diego

Junk King San Diego is not only the premier eco-friendly and green junk removal service in the San Diego area, we are also the top-rated company when it comes to providing the best in junk removal services and the best in customer service.

And an essential part of being the best is our pricing. We always work to ensure you that our pricing is the best in our market. One of the many ways we accomplish this is with our fair and transparent pricing approach to every junk removal job – an approach that is always guaranteed to save you money.

What does that look like?

Most other junk removal services in the industry routinely charge customers by the weight of their junk loads. Some even charge a flat fee. In addition, it is not at all uncommon to encounter added charges and, in some cases, “hidden” fees that are not disclosed up front.

That’s not how Junk King operates. Ever. 

We only charge our customers for the volume of their junk loads. Another way of saying this is that we only charge you for how much space your junk and other debris takes up in our junk removal trucks.

What makes this pricing approach both fair and equitable is that you never pay to have us remove, say, one heavy junk item than someone else pays to have dozens of lightweight items hauled away. So, you will pay the same fee for having an old washing machine removed as you would for a large box the same size as the washing machine, but full of old toys or plastic junk, for example.

This makes the process simple, fair, and saves you money!

Not only that, but at Junk King San Diego, we will never add on extra charges, nor will we surprise you with hidden fees. And we even guarantee to outdo any other written estimate.

We can do this because we are confident that our prices are better than any comparable operator in our area. And a comparable operator is a licensed, insured, junk removal company in the greater San Diego area that operates a recycling-based operation and works to keep unnecessary waste materials from ending up in our landfills.

Which is how Junk King San Diego has always done business!

For Affordable, Reliable, and Earth-Friendly Junk Removal Call on Junk King San Diego

San Diego residents can save green and be green with professional and reliable junk removal from the “green team” at Junk King San Diego.

We serve the entire San Diego area including communities like Jamul, Lakeside, Santee, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Imperial Beach, and Spring Valley, of course!

For residential junk removal, commercial junk removal, schools, churches, and most any other junk removal needs, you can rely on Junk King San Diego to make it easy, green, and affordable.

Give us a call today and let us remove your junk and rubbish for you and make every day “Earth Day” by having Junk King San Diego haul all your unwanted junk items from your home, office, or workplace. We will ensure that everything possible that we pick up will be reused or recycled – as much as possible!

And remember, you will always get a free estimate from us first. You can get and estimate by going online, by sending us a text with some photos, just calling us, or simply get one from our junk removal team once they arrive at your location.

Remember, when you call Junk King San Diego you will always get on-time junk pickup and removal anywhere in the San Diego area that is both eco-friendly and affordable. 

So, need to get rid of your junk in a green and earth-friendly way? It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3.

Contact us today and make an appointment online or by calling us at 1.888.888.JUNK (5865).