Cobb Co. Fleet Management Joins EPA’s National Partnership for Environmental Priorities - Company commits to using lead-free wheel weights and recycling 2,500 pounds of lead
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Category: Trash and RecyclingType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
(Marietta, Ga. - August 19, 2009) The E.P.A. (EPA) today acknowledged Cobb Co. Fleet Management (CCFM) in Marietta, Ga. as the newest environmental steward to join the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP). The commitment includes the use of environmentally safe, lead-free wheel weights, as well as the implementation of recycling lead wheel weights used on the existing fleet of automobiles and trucks used in daily CCFM operations. CCFM anticipates that 2,500 pounds of lead will be safely recycled, eliminating a potential toxic pollutant from posing a risk to human health and the environment.
"We commend Cobb Co. Government and its Fleet Management team for its commitment to reducing lead pollution from the Co. government's large fleet," said E.P.A. Acting Regional Administrator Stan Meiberg. "Voluntary partnerships like this are an essential way of advancing environmental protection."
Commenting on the recognition, Co. Commissioner Helen Goreham said, "the Cobb Co. Government continues to be a leader in the region and the state in its stewardship of the environment … be it through land use, proper stormwater management, wastewater treatment facilities, in-house recycling and other initiatives such as the Fleet Division's elimination of lead tire weights."
E.P.A. formed the NPEP to pursue the goal of reducing the use or release of 31 highly toxic, priority chemicals found in America's manufacturing processes. It has established a National Waste Minimization Goal to act as a measurement of plan success. The goal is to work with industry and the public to reduce the use or release of four million pounds of priority chemicals by 2011.
Cobb Co. Fleet Management is located on Co. Services Parkway in Marietta, Ga., with 35 employees servicing over 1,725 vehicles from police cars to motorgraders.
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