Companies Team with L.A. County to Benefit Local Charities; L.A. County Honors Businesses for Environmental Work.Business/News Editors & Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2002 Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officially announced the recipients of the first-ever LACoMAX Exchange Awards. The winners include Sony Pictures Entertainment and Looney Bins Inc., who received an award for their commitment to resourceful re·source·ful adj. Able to act effectively or imaginatively, especially in difficult situations. re·source  ful·ly adv. re-use. The awards were granted for their work
in using LACoMAX.com, the County's online materials exchange
website, to re-use wood from movie sets to benefit children's
charities.
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Looney Bins Inc. began working together to make sure wood and other materials used for movie sets are re-used throughout Los Angeles County, benefiting companies, organizations and children, instead of adding to landfill disposal. One of the non-profit organizations A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. that benefits from the old movie sets is H.E.L.P. (Handicapped Equestrian equestrian a rider of horses. Learning Program), which uses equestrian programs to help children gain confidence and self-esteem. They re-use set materials to patch corrals and maintain their facilities. "We use the LACoMAX.com website to find a place to re-use these set materials and other recyclables so that they don't end up in landfills," said Mayan Spaccarellie of Looney Bins Inc. "LACoMAX.com makes it easy to find a home for these materials. Our clients and the charities save thousands of dollars with this program." "At Sony Pictures Entertainment, we are constantly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. creative ways to recycle the materials used on our movie sets," says Jack Kindberg, SPE's President of Studio Operations. "This program provides a great opportunity for us to not only help the environment but also to benefit some of the great children's charities around L.A. County in the process." The LACoMAX.com website allows users to find useful items other people are discarding or post items they have but no longer need. Finding new homes for discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. goods keeps them out of our over-crowded landfills. "The award program was designed to thank individuals and businesses for playing an important role in keeping L.A. Clean," said LACoMAX program manager Jennifer Nguyen. "We've given several awards to businesses and individuals for exchanging all sorts of materials, from computers and electronics to furniture and lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to . And it's so easy anyone can do it -- just visit www.LACoMAX.com and see for yourself." |
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