NERC announces application deadline for sustainable materials management awards

The Brattleboro, Vermont-based Northeast Recycling Council (NERC) has announced a Sept. 7, 2017, deadline for applications for its new awards program honoring work focused on sustainable materials management. 

The NERC 30th Anniversary Sustainable Materials Management Awards will recognize six individuals and six organizations for the impact they have made on sustainable materials management.

Nominations can be made for three award categories:

• NERC Environmental Sustainability Leadership Award (three awards planned):
  • Public sector
  • Private sector
  • Student or young professional – under 40 years of age
    Eligibility: Organizations and individuals located within NERC’s 11 member states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont), or attending college in one of these states.

• Greatest Impact from Collaboration with NERC (one award planned):
  • Eligibility: Any organization that has worked with NERC on a substantive project that has resulted in recognizable, demonstrable and/or measurable change. 
    

• Involvement in NERC (two awards planned):
  • Public sector
  • Private sector
  • Eligibility: Current NERC advisory members
    
    

Nominations are due Sept. 7, 2017, via an online application form, available at www.surveymonkey.com/r/M7K8CPC.

For more information, contact NERC Executive Director Lynn Rubinstein via email at lynn@nerc.org. 

NERC is a multistate nonprofit organization that works on environmental and economic sustainability through responsible solid waste management. Its programs emphasize source reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, environmentally preferable purchasing (EPP) and decreasing the toxicity of the solid waste stream in the 11-state region. NERC says its mission is to promote sustainable materials management by supporting traditional and innovative solid waste best practices, focusing on waste prevention, toxics reduction, reuse, recycling and organics recovery.