AF&PA Launches 2007 AF&PA Recycling Awards.Paper Industry to Recognize Outstanding Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. Efforts WASHINGTON Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. -- Today the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) announced that entry forms for the 2007 AF&PA Recycling Awards are available at www.paperrecycles.org. In 2007, AF&PA will again recognize outstanding individual, business, community, and school recycling efforts. Thanks to the dedication of millions of Americans who recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. on a daily basis, a record 51.5 percent (51.3 million tons) of the paper used in the U.S. was recovered for recycling in 2005. While this is a significant achievement, the industry has set a goal to recover 55 percent by 2012. Reaching the new recovery goal will require the kind of commitment and dedication highlighted in the AF&PA Recycling Award winning programs. Past award winners have been highlighted in print and online media and featured extensively on the www.paperrecycles.org website through podcasts, videos, and program summaries. Those individuals, businesses, communities, and schools engaged in successful 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. programs are encouraged to apply in the following categories: Ed Hurley Big Ed Hurley (played by Everett McGill) is a fictional character on the 1990-1991 primetime ABC series Twin Peaks. He runs the local gas station, aka "Big Ed's Gas Farm" and is an "unofficial" deputy. He is married to Nadine, with whom he is clearly troubled. Memorial Paper Recycling Award * Individual AF&PA Business Leadership Recycling Award * Business recycling program AF&PA Community Recycling Awards * Community (city or county) with fewer than 100,000 residents * Community with more than 100,000 residents AF&PA School Recycling Awards * College & University * School-wide (K-12) Entry Information Visit www.paperrecycles.org for complete award descriptions and entry forms. Entries must be submitted by February 16, 2007. Winners will be announced during AF&PA's 130th Annual Paper Week at the end of March. 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. Visit AF&PA online at www.afandpa.org or www.paperrecycles.org. |
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