Every day can be Earth Day when you keep it “Green and Clean.” Sustainable business practices can save money and the planet. The Superior Business Improvement District is home to a wide variety of businesses that offer sustainable/green products or services. This includes 2nd Hand, Recycled, Upcycled, Sustainable, Green, or Organic products, as well as other services or initiatives that are kinder to the planet.
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Shop Green Business Showcase
| Afterlife Electronics Graveyard – 915 John Avenue |
| Get rid of unwanted electronics and appliances responsibly. |
| Angie’s Closet – 1315 Tower Avenue |
| Women’s Clothing and Household Items – Consignment |
| Antiques on Belknap – 1709 Belknap Street |
| Buy and sell antiques, collectibles, jewelry, postcards, advertising, pottery, linens, vintage clothing, gold, silver, military, glassware, and everything in between from Shabby Chic to Retro. |
| Art on the Planet – 1413 Tower Avenue |
| Art including some rustic and reclaimed pieces |
| Belknap Plumbing, Heating, & Cooling Co. – 1414 Belknap St |
| We offer High Efficiency Equipment for you home, both in Heating, and Cooling. We have many different options from Forced Air, Hot Water, or Heat Pump Air conditioners. Upgrading to high efficiency equipment is a great way to save both on your monthly Utility Bills and environmental impacts! We also offer solutions for cleaner drinking water for your home! |
| Earth Exchange – 1713 Belknap Street |
| Upscale thrift store offering gently used clothing and home goods as well as some new furnishings. Donations accepted. |
| emFATic+ – 1308 Tower Avenue |
| Second hand boutique featuring stylish, contemporary plus-sized clothing for femme folks |
| Once Again Used & New – 310 Belknap Street |
| Featuring one-of-a kind refurbished furniture, primitive home decor, candles, linens, chalk it up paint, and much, much more. |
| Play It Again Sports – 124 Belknap Street |
| Buy and sell used and new sporting and fitness equipment. |
| Pro Print – 1313 Tower Avenue |
| Pro Print is the only “certified green printer” in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. It’s certified by the Printing Industry of the Midwest under their Environmental Initiative, which means Pro Print voluntarily conforms to OSHA requirements and goes beyond that to voluntary procedures, such as offering soy-based inks, a range of recycled/green paper choices, digital and offset printing options, LED lighting, and boasts a companywide recycling program among other things. |
| Salvation Army Thrift Store – 1705 Belknap Street |
| Thrift Store with used clothing and household items. Donations accepted. |
| Sellers Auction – 902 Ogden Avenue |
| Specializing in Business Liquidations, Inventory Reduction, Antiques and Collectibles, Estates, Farm Auctions, Benefit and Fund Raising Auctions. |
| Serenity Spa and Salon – 1705 Tower Ave |
| Earth day is one of our favorite days of the year! Our motto at Serenity is “Small Business, Big Impact!” We will kick off our Earth day adventures by cleaning our park, Center City park! Following our clean up we are meeting with the folks over at the foster care system to do a donation of our boutique clothing to our communities foster care children. We then will make our way to the Ruth house and the Harbor House to donate other boutique items and essentials! We are counting down the days to Earth day! We hope to see you out and about, cleaning up our community! As for our salon, we choose product lines in which sustainability is always the foundation of not just their brand, but their business practices as well. This includes brands that use at least 50% recycled materials for their packaging and biotechnologies, which is a type of natural engineering process! We also encourage our brave clients who are lookin for big hair changes to donate their hair! We partner with the Children With Hairloss Organization which is a nonprofit organization that that provides human hair replacements at no cost to children and young adults facing medically-related hair loss due to Cancer treatments, Alopecia, Trichotillomania, Burns, etc. |
| Sparkles Auto Salon – 1918 Tower Avenue |
| We use all green products in all details that we do |
| Superior Vintage – 1719 Belknap Street |
| Antique and vintage retail store offering vintage jewelry, furniture, glassware, wall art, home decor and much more. |
| Thirsty Pagan Brewing – 1615 Winter St. |
| All of our take out containers are compostable, down to our 2 oz portion cups, we compost all of our food waste (of which there is little!), in the summer months we grow our own tomatoes, green peppers and basil for our menu items, we use a water reclamation system to water the crops in our greenhouse. Our spent grain from the brewing process is handed off to local farmers to feed their livestock |
| Twin Ports Bid Superior – 1322 Banks Avenue |
| Online auctions featuring Estates, Commercial/Industrial Equipment, Construction Equipment & Tools, Restaurant Equipment, Firearms, Furniture, Collectibles/Antiques and more! |
| Twin Ports Custom Climate – 1328 Oakes Ave |
| Environmentally friendly energy efficient heat pumps. All of our removed equipment is responsibly recycled including refrigerant recovery. We serve both residential and commercial clients in the Twin Ports and surrounding areas. |
Keep Clean Environmental Initiatives
| What Do I Do with It? – https://www.douglascountywi.org/835/What-do-I-do-with |
| Superior Clean-up Schedules – https://www.ci.superior.wi.us/821/Clean-up-schedules |
| Unwanted Medication Disposal – http://www.ci.superior.wi.us/677/Medicine-Drop-Box |
| Composting and Native Plants – http://www.ci.superior.wi.us/DocumentCenter/View/12103/final-draft-webversion-native-lawn-compost-ordinance-brochure |
| Adopt-A-Storm Drain! – http://www.ci.superior.wi.us/DocumentCenter/View/14338/Final-Adopt-a-Storm-drain-092222 |