2006 American Forest & Paper Association Community Recycling Award Presented to the City of Seattle, WA
Posted on: Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 12:00 CDT
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) today announced that the City of Seattle, Washington has received the 2006 AF&PA Community Recycling Award in the large community category. The award recognizes a community of more than 100,000 residents that has successfully implemented or improved upon a paper recovery and recycling program.
Although curbside recycling has been available in the City of Seattle, Washington, since 1998, recovery rates were in a decline. As a result, the City passed an ordinance in 2003 that prohibits recyclables from residential and commercial garbage and launched a massive education campaign to promote it. Through the use of a variety of media including print, radio and TV, awareness of the recycling ordinance has increased by 50 percent and overall support of Seattle's recycling regulations has grown to 82 percent. Seattle's overall garbage tonnage in 2005 was the lowest in 10 years, despite population growth.
In 2005, the City's residential recycling program saved $4.4 million by collecting and selling more than 160 million pounds of recyclables to markets throughout the U.S. and the Pacific Rim.
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 City of Seattle's recycling program, please visit www.seattle.gov/util.
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 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 .
Source: Business Wire
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