SWANA’s Excellence in Solid Waste Management Program was created to acknowledge outstanding programs that are committed to the “environmentally and economically sound management of solid waste.” This year’s winners will be recognized at a luncheon at WASTECON 2003, October 16, 2003, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. John Skinner, SWANA’s executive director and CEO, comments, “These are the organizations that have gone above and beyond in their waste management programs.  They are the best of the best and embody SWANA’s mission to advance the practice of environmentally and economically sound municipal solid waste management.”

The winners are:

Solid Waste Management System

• Gold—Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia, Chesapeake, Va.
• Silver—Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority, Salinas, Calif.

Landfill Management

• Gold—Turnkey Recycling Environmental Enterprise (Waste Management- N.H.), Gonic, N.H.
• Silver—Toland Road Landfill- Ventura Regional Sanitation District (VRSD), Ventura, Calif.
• Bronze—Wicomico County Landfill, Wicomico County Department of Public Works, Salisbury, Md.

Composting

• Gold—Navy Whidbey Recycle, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor, Wash.

Recycling

• Bronze—Montenay Power Corp., Miami-Dade Resource Recovery Facility, Miami, Fla.

Transfer Station

• Gold—Hennepin County Transfer Station- Hennepin County Environmental Services, Brooklyn Park, Minn.
• Silver—Shady Grove Transfer Station- Montgomery County Department of Public Works, Derwood, Md.

Collection Systems

• Bronze—Town of Brookhaven, Department of Waste Management, Medford, N.Y.

Public Education

• Gold—Pierce County Public Works & Utilities, Solid Waste Division, University Place, Wash.
• Silver—City of Seattle, Seattle, Wash.
• Bronze—City of Nashville, Metro Nashville Public Works- Division of Waste Management, Nashville, Tenn.

Marketing

• Gold—City of Hamilton Public Works Department, Waste Management Division, Hamilton, Ontario
• Bronze—City of Tacoma, Tacoma, Wash.

Landfill Gas Utilization

• Bronze—Jamacha Landfill, County of San Diego, Department of Public Works, Inactive Waste Site Management, San Diego, Calif.

Special Waste

• Gold—Mesa County Solid Waste Management, Grand Junction, Colo.
• Silver—Bergen County Utilities Authority, Little Ferry, N.J.
• Bronze—Fairfax County Division of Solid Waste Disposal & Resource Recovery, Fairfax, Va.