ISRI Recognizes U.S. EPA with Design for Recycling Award

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries awarded its Design for Recycling award to the U.S. Environmental Agency’s Design for the Environment program. The award was announced during the 2007 ISRI Convention & Exposition in New Orleans.

The EPA program was chosen because of its overall leadership in creating innovative design partnerships, and its dedication to empower businesses and industry sectors to incorporate environmental considerations, along with performance and cost considerations, into decision-making processes.

"EPA’s Design for the Environment and ISRI’s Design for Recycling share the vision that it takes voluntary programs to produce changes in manufacturing processes that consider a product’s end-of-life during the design stage," said Frank Cozzi, ISRI chair.ISRI established the Design for Recycling award, to honor a program, company or individual whose product or program design has incorporated one or more of the following:

•A reduction in the number of different recyclable materials

•A reduction or elimination of hazardous constituents

•An increased yield of the product’s recyclables

•An improvement in the safety of recycling

•A design that allows for easy disassembly for recycling

Last year, ISRI’s recipient was Hewlett-Packard, who was honored because of its documented efforts to reduce the use of hazardous substances, to simplify component design, and to build computers and printing products for easy disassembly and recycling.