2003 Awards - Division of Solid Waste Services

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SORRT: 2003 Non-Residential Outstanding Achievement Award

Business or Individual: Café Deluxe

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: Café Deluxe participated in a model recycling program beginning in summer of 2001. Today, staff continues to recycle with great enthusiasm. The management continues to educate staff on their recycling policies and procedures and as a result, they fill approximately eight 96-gallon toters full of glass bottles weekly.

Business or Individual: Christ Episcopal School

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: Christ Episcopal School's students, teachers, and staff have taken charge of their recycling program and have increased their recycling efforts during the past year. To help motivate everyone in the school, the school hosts an annual Earth Day celebration to remind students, teachers and staff about the importance of waste reduction, recycling and buying recycled.

Business or Individual: Debra Low, Polinger Management

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Ms. Low promotes her recycling program with high enthusiasm. She stresses the importance of recycling to her tenants by providing each tenant with a recycling manual and constantly strives for new methods to improve the recycling program at 7600 and 7700 Wisconsin Avenue.

Business or Individual: Il Sole D'Italia Ristorante Pizza Parlor

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: Il Sole D'Italia Pizza Parlor fills a four cubic yard container full of commingled containers every week after tenant education was conducted in 2002. Employees of the restaurant are well aware of the program made available by their property manager and are enthusiastic about participating.

Business or Individual: Joanne Nightingale and Ronen Zonder (Hyatt Regency)

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: After attending a SORRT seminar in late 2002, Ms. Nightingale and Mr. Zonder enthusiastically restarted Hyatt Regency's recycling program. Using the tools and information provided by the SORRT Program, Hyatt Regency purchased new recycling bins and strategically placed the new bins and educational posters throughout the hotel. With their continued hard work and dedication, the Hyatt Regency will have a premier hotel recycling program for years to come.

Business or Individual: LaTonya Nimmons, National Naval Medical Center

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individua

Reason for being recognized: Ms. Nimmons is an integral component to the success of the National Naval Medical Center's recycling program. Ms. Nimmons is responsible for coordinating an annual Earth Day event to raise awareness among the staff and patients along with initiatives to buy recycled and reducing waste.

Business or Individual: Lee Anne Ayers, Pearle Vision Center

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Ms. Ayers has been an advocate for recycling and her local business community for well over ten years. Ms. Ayers inspires her fellow merchants to increase their recycling efforts to improve recycling at the White Oak Shopping Center.

Business or Individual: Lisa Stojowski, Advancis Pharmaceuticals

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Ms. Stojowski called the SORRT Program in 2002 to help set-up a recycling program for her business. By assisting in every facet in implementing a recycling program, Ms. Stojowski's commitment resulted in the beginning of a successful recycling program for her business along with four other businesses in their office building.

Business or Individual: R.L. Voight & Sons, Inc.

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: Initially, this small business complex did not have a recycling program. However, the owner of the building set up a recycling program within one week of receiving information from the SORRT Program. As a result of the efficient recycling program designed by the owner, tenants of the building fill their mixed paper and commingled materials container weekly.

Business or Individual: Marion Julier, Lakeforest Mall

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Ms. Julier is an amazing environmental advocate. She continues to be a leader in recycling and has participated as a mentor in our Partners in Recycling Program to assist other malls in the County to improve their recycling efforts. As a result of Ms. Juliers' commitment at Lakeforest Mall, they have increased their recycling by 11 percentage points in less than two years.

Business or Individual: Marissa Pettinelli, Shady Grove Fertility Clinic

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Ms. Pettinelli initially called the SORRT program for assistance with recycling in her company. As a result of her efforts and dedication by setting up an educational awareness day for fellow employees, the recycling activities for the entire building have increased.

Business or Individual: Master-Tech

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: Prior to their property management company providing recycling collection services, Master Tech was self-hauling their materials to a private recycling collection company and continue to recycle materials such as used oil, oil filters, antifreeze and scrap metal.

Business or Individual: Medical Center Development Corporation

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: After making initial contact with Medical Center Development Corporation, Ms. Covell asked SORRT staff to conduct educational events at the office buildings they manage in an effort to proactively spread awareness about recycling to their tenants in an effort to increase their recycling participation.

Business or Individual: Mel Jackson, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Mr. Jackson is the US Army Research Laboratories recycling leader. Mr. Jackson oversees their recycling program with includes the transporting of materials from every building on their campus to one location where they are weighed and packaged for pick-up. In addition to the required materials, they also recycled over 52,000 pounds of ferrous metals, 600 pounds of scrap metal. They also purchase office supplies made with recycled content such as paper, towels, toner cartridges and pencils.

45) Business or Individual: Positano Ristorante Italiano

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: Positano Ristorante Italiano acted with urgency to initiate their recycling program. They educated all employees and accepted on-going feedback from the Division of Solid Waste Services to improve their program. As a result, the restaurant converted five 96-gallon toters from trash to recycling and saves approximately $200.00 per month on collections.

Business or Individual: Silver Spring Library

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: Carlos Valderama and Adam Greene have led the recycling effort at Silver Spring Library with true leadership and enthusiasm to improve and increase both staff and patrons' awareness of the recycling program at the Silver Spring Library resulting with a recycling rate of 72 percent in 2002 up from 25 percent in 1999.

Business or Individual: John Cimabue, Aramark Corporation; William F. Bolger Center

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Mr. Cimabue is dedicated to improving the recycling program at the United States Postal Service William F. Bolger Center for Leadership Development facility in Potomac. The center's recycling rate increased 3 percent from 2001 to 2002. In addition to their recycling efforts, they donate office furniture for reuse, use recycled asphalt or concrete as a road base and they purchase recycled content parking curbs, toner cartridges, hand towels, tissue and paper products. In addition, they also purchase environmentally friendly products such as an organic product made from a bi-product of corn for outdoor ice control.

Business or Individual: Vito Dellenoci and Donna Desmond, (VR Limited Partnership)

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Individual

Reason for being recognized: Mr. Dellenoci and Ms. Desmond are strong advocates for recycling. The recycling program at 1110 Bonifant Street in Silver Spring began in 1994, but was "re-charged" in 2002 with a multi-tenant educational event conducted by VR Limited Partnership and County SORRT staff.

Business or Individual: Fitzgerald Auto Mall

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: The management team at Wheaton Dodge City has committed itself to being a leader in recycling to serve as a mentor to other automobile dealerships. The involvement and support of the team resulted in the education of all department managers and employees, the distribution of recycling bins for each desk and/or office and the increased participation in their recycling program.

Business or Individual: Wheaton Presbyterian Church Campus

Award Type: Outstanding Achievement, Business

Reason for being recognized: The Wheaton Presbyterian Church Campus designed a recycling program to accept mixed paper and commingled containers, and have incorporated their recycling program throughout the church and daycare center. A dedicated recycling coordinator helps to make their recycling program a success.

For more information:

SORRT Nonresidential Recycling Program: 240-777-6437
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