Disposal Alternatives Organization

Disposal Alternatives Organization is a green company with a mission. Our primary purpose is to promote recycling to protect the Earth. The second social purpose is to create green jobs and give them to persons with major barriers to employment. The third is to provide low cost appliances to Indiana families and free appliances to needy families an... d disaster victims. We are proud to be entirely self-sustaining. By maintaining a fiscally conservative budget, we are able to balance out the losses on the appliance pick-up program with profits from the recycled materials. The two programs are symbiotic, like nature itself. Background Disposal Alternatives Organization was founded in 2008 by Cal Hultquist and Dana Eveland. The mission was two-fold: to provide ethical appliance recycling options to Indy area residents while creating well-paying, green jobs to people who need an opportunity or a second chance. DAO is a member of the BBB, the Indiana Recycling Coalition and the National Recycling Coalition. Dana Eveland oversees warehousing, logistics and operational aspects of DAO and serves as CFO. Dana holds multiple certifications from US Department of Transportation and the EPA and is an ASE certified mechanic. Dana oversees the training of all technicians and warehouse staff. Cal Hultquist is a former government investigator and a graduate of the University of Illinois (BA) and Indiana University School of Law (JD). He was awarded the Navy Science Award for an environmental water pollution investigation at a young age and the Hugh Carey Scholarship. He holds a US EPA Type I license and USDOT Safety Training certification. He received a Community Service Award from the City of Atlanta, Georgia for participation on Atlanta's Recycling Task Force in 2009. Cal served with the Better Business Bureau and was soon appointed Senior Investigator and Law Clerk of the Consumer Protection Division of the State of Indiana under Attorney General Linley Pearson. Later he was appointed Assistant Attorney General in Illinois ...Read More