2006 American Forest & Paper Association Business Leadership Recycling Award Presented to Bluegrass Regional Recycling Corporation.WASHINGTON -- The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today announced that Bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. Regional Recycling Corporation of Richmond, Kentucky Richmond is the 6th largest city in Kentucky and the county seat of Madison County. It was named after Richmond, Virginia. In 2004, the city population was 30,008. It is home to Eastern Kentucky University. has received the 2006 AF&PA Business Leadership Recycling Award in the small business category. The award recognizes an outstanding paper recycling Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. program with fewer than 150 employees. The Bluegrass Regional Recycling Corporation (BRRC BRRC Black Recruitment and Retention Center ) is a statewide, nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. agency dedicated to training and educating the general public and local governments on recycling. The program functions as a cooperative and allows rural communities to recycle materials that otherwise would not have the volume to initiate cost-effective programs. In 2005 the BRRC collected more than 18,000 tons of paper for recycling. Unique to the BRRC program is the use of inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. labor at their processing center and satellite recycling centers. In 1998 the BRRC began a Career Development Program that uses recyclable materials as a resource for on-the-job training for the inmate workforce. In exchange for their labor the inmates are given training and certifications that often result in job placements upon their release. The AF&PA Recycling Awards were created to recognize outstanding individual, business, community and school paper recycling efforts. In 2005, a record-high 51.5 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling. The paper industry has set an ambitious goal of 55 percent recovery by 2012. It is only through the continued efforts of the millions of Americans who recycle at home, work and school that this goal will be achieved. For detailed descriptions and a video overview of the 2006 AF&PA Recycling Award winners, along with additional recycling materials and resources, please visit www.paperrecycles.org. To learn more about the Bluegrass Regional Recycling Corporation, please visit www.thebrrc.com. About AF&PA AF&PA is the national trade association of the forest, paper and wood products industry. AF&PA represents more than 200 companies and related associations that engage in or represent the manufacture of pulp, paper, paperboard paperboard, material similiar in shape and composition to paper, but generally thicker, stronger, and more rigid. Paper machines, e.g., Fourdrinier machines, are used to make sheets of paperboard. and wood products. The forest products industry accounts for approximately 7 percent of total U.S. manufacturing output, employs 1.5 million people, and ranks among the top 10 manufacturing employers in 42 states. Visit AF&PA online at www.afandpa.org or www.paperecycles.org . |
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