About Us
Throughout our 30-year history, Ceres has first and foremost been committed to performing all of our projects ethically and with the highest level of professionalism and integrity. Ceres also strives to be a leader in the industry, developing innovative recycling techniques for a variety of waste streams including municipal wastes, demolition waste, and contaminated vegetative storm debris waste.
The foundation of this company is the many talented and dedicated professionals who have helped to shape and grow this company over the past 30 years. The varied services of this company are directly linked to the varied capabilities, expertise and talents of our personnel. With personnel across the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Ceres is well-staffed to rapidly respond to any size project, anywhere. We have successfully responded to missions requiring rapid mobilization and ramp-up with more than 1500 full-time personnel and thousands of subcontractor personnel.
Our capabilities and reputation has allowed us to be awarded, and successfully perform, contracts in nearly every state in the Union, including more than 64 FEMA-reimbursed contracts. These projects have ranged from Greenland to Puerto Rico and Hawaii to Ascension Island and have included a broad range of capabilities, including arboriculture, environmental restoration and preservation projects, construction and demolition, and disaster recovery. Ceres has frequently been selected through an RFP process for hurricane and disaster recovery, as well as large demolition projects contracted by the US Air Force, Navy, and Army.
Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. provides services in the following areas:
- Emergency Management
- Demolition
- Construction
- Debris Removal
- Debris Reduction
- Environmental Engineering
- Wood Waste Recycling
- Hazardous Waste Recycling
- Decontamination
- Snow Removal
Our Mission
Our mission is to satisfy our customers while performing specialty heavy construction tasks for governmental units while meeting high standards of ethics, safety and honesty. We take pride in doing excellent work, and we are eager to fill a specialty role for our client governmental agencies when they encounter a situation outside their normal scope of operations. We have filled those types of roles for 30 years and have never defaulted on a contract while generating a long list of customers who commend Ceres, one of whom stated that Ceres was "perhaps the finest contractor I have worked with..."
Ceres, and all its business units, is wholly committed to providing our services in a responsible manner - one that will protect and sustain our environment, positively contribute to the communities within which we operate, create a positive economic impact to the area, and enhance the local environment and contribute toward enhanced public safety while being cognizant of resource management. The way we do business now and into the future will be our legacy, both professionally and personally.
Ceres supports and promotes local small business ventures, utilizing such businesses in support of our services wherever possible, and frequently partnering with small or disadvantaged business entities to promote their growth in the industry.
"Sustainability is equity over time ... think of it as extending the Golden rule through time... Do unto future generations as you would have them do unto you." -- Robert Gilman
This responsible and sustainable business approach also extends to ensuring our services are performed in a manner that will be injury and incident free; this philosophy includes all of our operational bases and project locations and extends to our customers, suppliers, and subcontractors. Ceres strives to conduct all its operations in a manner that will:
- Identify, eliminate or control hazards that may result in injury or illness
- Manage incidents that do occur so as to minimize their harmful effects and prevent recurrence
- Strive to promote safe and environmentally sound practices in all our endeavors;
- Empower each of our personnel so that, working collectively, we are able to achieve these goals.