EMCOR FACILITIES SERVICES RECOGNIZED FOR BEING THE FIRST PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY IN THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION TO ENROLL IN VOLUNTARY NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT
Philadelphia – March 10 – In a ceremony today in Washington, D.C., Environmental Protection Agency, Jim Berlow, Director of Hazardous Waste Minimization & Management Division, recognized EMCOR Facilities Services for being the 1st property management company in the mid-atlantic region to enroll in the voluntary national partnership for environmental priorities.
“There is a national initiative underway called the Resource Conservation Challenge which encourages companies to find flexible, yet more protective ways to conserve our valuable resources through waste reduction and energy recovery activities that will improve public health and the environment,” said Jim Berlow (title)… “Today, EMCOR has stepped up to the plate by committing to develop a comprehensive mercury recycling program for the entire region that can serve as a model for other companies, including the entire property management sector, across the nation.”
The new voluntary program challenges businesses and manufacturers to become more environmentally aware and to adopt a resource conservation ethic that results in less waste, more recycling, and more environmentally sound products.
EMCOR Facilities Services Mid-Atlantic Region is an award-winning industry leader in the provision of operations, maintenance, facilities & technical services for government, commercial, industrial & institutional clients.
As a new waste minimization partner, EMCOR has committed to voluntarily finding new and better ways of making the buildings they manage “greener” by ensuring that mercury waste streams such as (spent fluorescent lamps thermostats, etc.) are recycled at , which eliminates mercury releases into the environment.
The buildings that property management companies manage generate not only spent fluorescent lamps and other wastes that contain mercury but also nickel cadmium batteries, paper and food waste, electronic or e-waste and construction and demolition waste from building construction and renovations. There are many opportunities for this sector to support the resource Conservation Challenge.
Waste minimization not only means polluting less, it means saving money, too. Participating companies throughout America are learning that reducing or eliminating waste can also mean greater production efficiency, an improved image in their community, and increased profits. EPA created the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities, one of EPA’s family of voluntary partnership programs, in order to reduce 31 highly toxic, priority chemicals found in our nation’s waste.
EPA’s goal is to work with industry and the public to reduce the presence of the 31 priority chemicals in waste by 10 percent by the year 2008, compared to amounts generated in 2001. For more information about the national partnership for environmental priorities, go to http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/minimize/partnership.htm.
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