Pitney Bowes Recognized by EPA for Environmental Programs

Pitney Bowes Inc. was selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise Program as a Partner of the Year. This is the fourth consecutive year that Pitney Bowes has been recognized by the EPA and the first year the company was named a "Partner of the Year."

The WasteWise Program was launched by the EPA in 1994 as a voluntary partnership program to help businesses and institutions find practical methods to reduce municipal solid waste, increase recycling, and encourage the buying and manufacturing of products with recycled content.

Since initiating the WasteWise program in 1997, the company has attained a 75 percent rate of recycling. It now encompasses 24 participating facilities across five divisions. In 2000, six of the company's facilities began a program to recycle polystyrene products used in food service. This process resulted in a 40 percent reduction of total trash volume at those facilities, and a cost savings of nearly $115,000 in plastics recycling alone.