WasteWise Partners Reduce Waste; Increase Recycling
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Category: Trash and RecyclingType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Friday, November 4th, 2005
Contact: Kerry Humphrey, 202-564-4355 / humphrey.kerry@epa.gov
(11/04/05) The E.P.A. has acknowledged 34 WasteWise partners for significant waste reduction and recycling achievements. Tom Dunne, acting assistant administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, presented the awards to winners in several categories.
This year, the U.S. Postal Service-Northeast Area, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control were inducted into the WasteWise Hall of Fame. Their continued commitment to progressive waste reduction activities earned them the highest honor awarded to WasteWise partners. OSWER Deputy Assistant Administrator Barry Breen said, "As these award winners have proven, voluntary, collaborative actions can lead to remarkable environmental results, while allowing businesses the flexibility to minimize costs."
Now in its eleventh year, WasteWise is a voluntary partnership that promotes reducing, reusing, and recycling waste. WasteWise partners design their own waste reduction programs to achieve both environmental and economic benefits that suit their individual needs. Partners now number over 1,400, with 250 endorsers. Through their combined waste reduction activities, partners have eliminated in excess of 65 million metric tons of carbon equivalent--roughly the same as keeping about 52 million cars off the road for one year.
This year's winners were recognized at the 2005 WasteWise Yearly Conference in Arlington, Va., on Oct. 24-25. The complete list of winners can be found at:
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/wstewise/about/win05.htm For more information about EPA's WasteWise program, visit the WasteWise Web location at:
http://www.epa.gov/wastewise/
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