Our Culture
Southern Waste Systems is an organization known to be of the highest integrity. With an emphasis on Servant Leadership our team’s goal is to provide industry leading practices and service with a sincere focus on the ongoing satisfaction of our customers. Our goal to gather completely satisfied customers is at the root of our mission. Our customers enjoy the ability to work directly with our owners. They also recognize and appreciate the organizations focus on satisfied customers’ and have told us it plays a large role in their choosing SWS and Sun Recycling.
The core values by which we guide our company, reflect directly back on our employees, our customers and our community. We believe they collectively are our greatest assets.
Core Values
Our Employees
Develop a company of servant leaders.
Encourage a work place where people are motivated to be the best they can be because we allow the truth to prevail and each individual’s contribution is respected.
Focus on developing leaders leading leaders. Be committed to creating a culture built on truth, justice, respect, and strong values that we can all share. Communicate the values of the organization to every employee.
Encourage a culture where we are all concerned about the well being of each member both personally and professionally, with a focus on God, Honor and Country. Allowing each member of the team to perform his or her job to the highest standard possible and provide them the tools to do so.
Recognize and communicate the important role each of us plays in protecting the environment through Recycling for Zero Waste.
Our Customers
Deliver premium services and products with a focus on illustrating to our customers why it is so much better to do business with SWS versus the competition, all for the purpose of developing better customer loyalty.
Creating a culture committed to setting the standard in the recycling industry that will secure a strong future for the company and each team member. With each member of the team playing their part in ensuring we are gathering completely satisfied customers, we will guarantee future business and customer referrals.
The Community
Be a leader in recycling education programs across the area we service for children and adults at all levels.
Give back to the community with a strategic plan focused on the mission of SWS. A mission focused on Recycling for Zero Waste, protecting the environment, the creation of jobs and promoting the values of the organization.
Communicate our culture and all that the company stands for to each of the communities where we do business and become a partner in that community.
Social Contract
Southern Waste Systems
We agree to be honorable, professional and supportive in our relationships with each other, and every employee, by encouraging a positive environment that strives to build a team focused on a servant leader culture through:
We agree to hold ourselves and each other accountable and give our best effort each and every day.
In the event of conflict we agree to address issues quickly, privately and face to face. We will communicate by listening openly and giving feedback as we seek resolution. In the event of unresolved conflict we agree to seek a third party peer mediator.
We pledge our support for this social contract and commit our personal efforts to up hold it in our daily interactions.
God – Honor - Country