Waste Reduction and Recycling Policies

Environmentally Responsible Purchasing Policy

Pollution Prevention Policy

Enviornmental Protection Policy

Evans Homes and Gardens, Inc. is committed to health, safety and environmental protection in all landscaping, maintenance and office activities. Owners, managers and employees are expected to support this policy. The office staff and green summer interns coordinate the policy under the direction of the owner. Other employees collaborate on the implementation of this policy.

Maintaining our status as quality landscape design professionals and an exemplary environmental steward requires that members of the Evans Homes and Gardens team be environmentally sensitive. Each employee has a role in ensuring that the company maintains a healthy, safe, and protected environment weather working in the garden center or at a customer’s home.

Employees of Evans Homes and Gardens are accountable to:

1. Consider possible environmental and safety impacts when making decisions, including those concerning facilities management and construction projects.
2. Emphasize safety education and safe work practices to minimize injuries and illnesses.
3. Recognize and respond to any legitimate community concerns about potential environmental health and radiation safety impacts.
4. Use energy efficiently.
5. Reuse and recycle materials when it makes environmental sense to do so.
6. Comply with all environmental health and radiation safety laws and regulations.

Montgomery County Green Business Certification

Working towards Sustainablility.

As a landscaper and garden center, Evans Homes and Gardens knows well the benefits of a clean environment. Using the Montgomery County Green Business Certification checklist, we're in the process of optimizing our practices towards a more sustainable business. And it's going nicely! So far we have uncovered little ways to reuse and recycle, implemented several conservational practices in our gardening, and educated the community about environmental preservation as well. - Small steps, yes, but we hope they amount to something.

Currently, only about twenty Montgomery County businesses have obtained Green Business Certification. We hope to join them soon once we've taken even more steps in the direction of sustainability. This summer, under the bright sun and in the company of healthy plants, we'll be working on reducing our waste, buying ethical products, reducing energy and water use, and further educating Montgomery County residents on their part in conservation.