“In 2018 Logjam Presents implemented the Green Initiative. The Green Initiative is a multi-phase plan to make Logjam Presents’ music venues and the Top Hat restaurant more sustainable. The first step was to develop a recycling plan with Republic Services to divert the paper, plastic, aluminum, and cardboard from the landfill. Once recycling was in place, we shifted our focus to eliminating single-use plastic. Humanity’s dependency on single-use plastics is has had detrimental consequences, and the sustainability of the recycling industry is in question. The first task was to implement composting into our operations, and find alternatives to single-use plastic. We teamed up with local green entrepreneur Sean Doty at Missoula Compost Collection, LLC to make this happen. Working closely with Missoula Compost Collection and Garden City Compost, the City of Missoula’s composting facility, we identified a line of products that effectively composted locally. We switched all of our cups, to-go containers, single-use plates, and cutlery to compostable products.

The final straw was plastic water bottles. Every year we burn through hundreds of thousands of water bottles at our music venues, so ditching them was of utmost importance to us. After trying various products, we landed on the “Alumitek” aluminum water bottles produced by Ball Corporation. We teamed up with Montana Silver Springs, a water bottle business in Philipsburg, Montana, to produce our line of aluminum Logjam water bottles, which launched in 2018. Montana Silver Springs bottles high quality artesian spring water exclusively in aluminum bottles. We were Montana Silver Springs’ second client, following Yellowstone National Park. Now they distribute nationally.

Green movements are endeavors that are worthy of praise, and I think that a pledge program is a great foundation for a community of sustainable businesses and individuals. It takes a village, and we’re all in this together. I’d love to see business across Missoula (and beyond) take the pledge to go green.”
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