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Is your business green? People want to know what you are doing to be green. Today everyone is saying they are green or sustainable, but not explaining how they fulfill this claim.

So, you must PROVE IT to the community if you want to be taken seriously.

To apply for your badges, click on the badge that you feel you may qualify for and give as much detail as possible as to what your organization`s efforts are for that badge.

You must earn a total of 5 badges to have a chance at inclusion in the Green Directory.

The Badge Department will review your application, and return a response within 3- 5 days to let you know if you have been accepted.

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Each Green Badge has a proprietary score given it due to its importance in an organization`s efforts to be sustainable. The Green Badges are automatically tallied and an algorithm ranks the highest scoring organization in each category at the top of the list and above the page fold, rewarding the highest achieving organization`s efforts and creating competition to continually improve sustainability efforts. If you have questions about this system, please call customer service at 406-208-TREE(8733).

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Little or no packaging used

Awarded to individuals or organizations that minimize use of or choose not to use packaging. Examples: restaurant delivers food in reused produce boxes; retail store has policy of asking customer if they want a bag to reduce on waste, patrons are encouraged to use reusable cloth bags for shopping, etc...


Green Directory clients that have been awarded the Little or no packaging used badge.

Rocky Mountain Health Network
We offer electronic health records that do not require packaging, mailing or any materials at all.
The Bozone
No packaging used in the distribution of our magazine.
Tatooine Electronic Systems
We use post-consumer boxes to ship all electronics in.
Bomb Snow Magazine
No packaging used to distribute magazines.
Bozeman Magazine
Our magazine does not include/require packaging
The S.A.V.E. Foundation
We have distributed reusable grocery bags, and are working with local grocery stores to get discounts for customers who bring their own bag.
Conflict Alternatives
We use products for shipping that are either recycled or produced by the carriers for this purpose. Packing materials are rarely used; we pack tight.
Big Sky Virtual
All virtual, all online distribution. www.bigskyvirtual.com
PrintingForLess.com
We package our products with biodegradable padding materials instead of those that are harmful to the environment, such as petroleum-based foam "peanuts."
Bonanza Health Foods
We have handed out canvas bags to encourage less paper and plastic use.
KBS Computer Solutions
We deliver products without packaging. Any packaging used in delivering products is properly disposed of. Many times we deliver products digitally over the Internet when possible.
Laser Cycle of Montana
For our deliveries, we use a toner cartridge strap. It eliminates the need for boxes. Our Bozeman store has been donating excess shipping materials to the UPS store. Billings will initiate the same policy. Any remaining material will be delivered to or picked up by a local recycler (card board, etc.).
Headwaters Floating Islands
Most of our islands are shipped via truck and are big enough that no packaging is necessary. We at times use a pallet and shrink wrap to help hold the products in place, but that is infrequent.
Montana Mist
Packing material is ecologically friendly.
St. Vincent Healthcare
We re-use packaging materials, such as packing peanuts, plastic, and paper rather than disposing of it and purchasing new.
Food services packages candy and to-go food in paper and other packages that limit waste and encourage protecting the environment.
GreenEdge Kids
Our shipping boxes are 100% re-used boxes that we collect from stores and people who receive them, as well as those we receive from our vendors. When we pack shipments, we use a single sheet of recycled USA-made tissue paper to keep the clothing clean during shipment, and sometimes newspaper, used tissue, or used packing materials to fill any empty space in the package. We don't purchase any packing material.
Reporter Big Sky Office
Our delivery drivers re-use the boxes that are used to deliver supplies to our customers. They re-use the boxes as much as they can and when they can no longer use the boxes, the boxes are recylced.
Powderfin Outdoors
Reused, recycled, or no packaging.
Tallman Dermatology and Medical Spa
We reuse packaging materials to send orders to customers. The dermatology office maximizes mailings to pathology by sending out the maximum number of biopsies per container, rather than one at a time. We do not use a lot of packaging. We also do laundry in-house so it does not get shipped or picked up.
All Things Italian
We ask clients if they need a bag and we use our product boxes as "bags". We also minimize the amount of disposables used when our clients take food out.
Montana Prefinish
We stack our finished lumber packages with minimal packaging, then tarp our deliveries with a truck tarp.
Schnitzer Billings
The majority of our scrap iron is shipped by rail. We ship some scrap and new steel on pallets that are recycled pallets; we do not purchase new pallets for use. Our new steel is mainly shipped on the bed of our trucks and trailers.
Dogs `N Sync
Use no packaging. Use cloth shopping bags, and refill printer cartridges.
Skylandis Furniture
Our orders are shipped blanket wrapped without packaging.
Scents of Balance
Eliminated the use of cardboard packaging.
Sunelco
We use recycled boxes for shipping most products. We use recycled shredded paper and Styrofoam as padding and if we have to buy specifically sized boxes we purchase them from a local source in Missoula.
Energy Efficient Group
We reuse boxes and shipping materials that come in to our sister company to send out our products.
Rocky Mountain Compost
We sell majority of our product bulk.
Rituals Dayspa & Salon
We ask the customer if they would like a bag, instead of just giving them one. We re-use Aveda bags on shopping trips to carry items.
Shaklee Independent Distributors
When you buy the Get Clean Starter Kit instead of comperable kits: You keep 108 pounds of packaging waste out of landfills and eliminate 248 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
Freedom Caregivers Inc.
Our members receive their prescriptions in reusable containers, that they are encouraged to bring back for refilling.
Moose Tracks Marketing Solutions
We never package or bag our products.
Brilliance Incorporated
Yes, our product does not require any plastic packaging. We will need to use small plastic Ziploc bags to hold the replacement feathers and connector...but we will be considering other alternatives. The main toy itself does require packaging materials.
Hermans ECO INC.
We hit the dumpsters for packing supplies.
Shaklee Independent Distributor Megan Richert
Cleaning products are concentrate so less packaging is needed, shippiing products directly also cuts out much waste.
Shaklee Independent Distributor Debbie McLarnon
Cleaning products are concentrate so less packaging is needed, shippiing products directly also cuts out much waste.
JW Synthetic Grass Inc.
no packaging
Bosco Powder Coating
Encourage our customers to bring blankets to wrap the freshly finished parts they are picking up and we reuse cardboard for packaging.
Planet Beach
We ask customers first if they would like a bag. We promote using re-usable bags.
OSP Enterprises
Re-use boxes that are shipped to us and the packaging materials to re-ship to our clients.
New West Landscapes
New West Landscapes purchases conciously and takes packaging into consideration. We generally offer services. Almost always, our deliverable products are plans and drawings delivered digitally which require zero packaging.
Green Directory Montana
Green Directory re-uses packaging materials that our supplies and directories are sent in for shipping out materials, whatever is not needed or cannot be stored is recycled with Earth First Aid.
Enviro-Safe Insulation
We use bulk recycled bags to carry our recycled products that we reuse during jobs.
NYR Organic
We believe in sustainability, taking only what nature can afford to give and no more than we need. We avoid polluting, toxic or harmful substances, use wild, organic and natural ingredients and don’t over-package.
Distinctive Countertops & Cabinetry
We re-use as many boxes and A-frames as possible and try to recycle all cardboard packaging we receive.
Energetechs
Our energy efficiency consulting service requires no packaging whatsoever. For the products that we buy we prefer ones without packaging. If we do get packaging we reuse it whenever possible and, if not, we recycle it.
Safeguard of Western Montana
Many of our vendors are working towards this goal and we try to use the vendors that practice this.
Hungry Worm Products, LLC
Worms are shipped in Tyvek packaging and recyled paper.
Rose`s Rugs
Rugs are packaged in re-usable pillow cases.
New To You Cell
We ship using recycled boxes or boxes that were spared from the trash.
Replica Business Solutions
We offer e-invoicing which eliminates the need for mailing envelopes and printing invoices. We recycle and reuse packaging materials whenever possible.
BadgeWest Awards & Engraving
Orders go out in either brown paper bag or tissue paper that we reuse from a neighboring business.
ICF Supply
Packaging is minimal for some parts and eliminated for others. 50/50
Michelle Anderson - Prudential Floberg REALTORS
I try to purchase things that have recycled packaging.
Hands On Healing
We use absolutely no packaging.
Ghost Writers in the Big Sky
If printed on paper, our books have no packaging at all.
Integral Grace LLC
Little already... headed for no packaging...
Western Awards and Engraving Co., Inc.
We reuse the packaging we get from the manufacturer.
Sanctuary Spa & Salon
Our manufacture ships products to us as efficiently as possible. Also, we ask clients if they need a bag or if they have a tote bag. Usually two products or less a bag isn't necessary, but we always ask..
The Art of Good Food, LLC
We designed our products around minimal packaging and waste. Our clear bags allow visibility of the product and are bio-degradable.
The Pita Pit
We use the Ionator ActiveIon which uses just water allowing me to not have to order boxes of cleaning products.
Clover
Our bags are recycled, and the store name is put on with a re-usable stamp not stickers or other materials.
Montana Timber Products
All local samples are delivered with no packaging such as cardboard and tape.
Allergy Specific Allergy Drops
We operate on the web with the minimun FDA approved packaging of our products.


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