AFPA Announces Recycling Award Winners

Association recognizes successful recycling programs during Paper Week.

Published April 12, 2006

The American Forest & Paper Association announced the 2006 AF&PA Recycling Award winners.  The awards were created to recognize outstanding individual, business, community and school paper recycling efforts.  Last year, a record-high 51.5 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling.

AF&PA has set a goal of 55 percent recovery by 2012. 

 

The AF&PA Recycling Award program was expanded this year to include a category for schools. Based on the strength of the applicant pool, a separate award for colleges and universities was added. 

 

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Joel Ostroff, Macon County, NC, received the Ed Hurley Memorial Paper Recycling Award. (Photo courtesy AFPA)

The 2006 AF&PA Recycling Awards winners are:

 

Ed Hurley Memorial Paper Recycling Award (for individual achievement) -- Joel Ostroff, Macon County, North Carolina

 

AF&PA Business Leadership Recycling Awards --  Small Business: Bluegrass Regional Recycling Corp., Richmond, Ky.; Large Business: Brewer Science, Inc., Rolla, Mo.

 

AF&PA Community Recycling Awards -- Small Community: Northfield, Minn.; Large Community: Seattle.

 

AF&PA School Recycling Awards -- Classroom: Heber Springs High School, Heber Springs, Ark.

 

School-wide: Mountain Home High School, Mountain Home, Ark.

 

College and University: tie between the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Oregon in Eugene.

 

Detailed descriptions and a video overview of the 2006 AF&PA Recycling Award winners, along with additional recycling materials and resources are available at www.paperrecycles.org.

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