2104 Recycling Award Winners Announced

The AF&PA, Washington, D.C., USA, this week announced the winners of its 2014 Recycling Awards. Now in its ninth consecutive year, the awards recognize outstanding paper recycling programs in three categories—Business Leadership, Community, and School. This year, the program was redesigned to reflect the diversity of paper recycling programs across the country. In each category, there are prizes for creativity, participation, partnerships, and volume of paper collected.

The winners were selected by a panel of judges that included representatives from AF&PA company members, 2013 Recycling Award winner Bishop Watterson High School, Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp., Sustainable Packaging Coalition, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

This year's winners each receive a cash prize, an original piece of paper artwork, and gain media recognition through the award presentation in their local market. The 2014 winners are:

Creativity – unique and innovative ways that have been used to market the program, raise awareness, and generate interest

Community Winner – Township of Nutley, N.J.
School Winner – Greenhill School (Addison, Texas)
Business Winner – Michael Dunn Center (Kingston, Tenn.)

Participation – unique and innovative ways successful programs increased participation and tonnage collected

Community Winner – Vance Air Force Base (Enid, Okla.)
School Winner – Damacus Elementary School (Salem, Ohio)
Business – Michael Dunn Center (Kingston, Tenn.)

Partnership – innovative partnerships (community, business, non-profit organizations) used to promote increased recovery

Community Winner – Metro Waste Authority (Des Moines, Iowa)
School Winner – Ocosta High School (Westport, Wash.)
Business Winner – Michael Dunn Center (Kingston, Tenn.)

Volume – total amount of paper and paperboard collected

Community Winner – Township of Nutley (Nutley, N.J.)
School Winner – Damacus Elementary School (Salem, Ohio)
Business Winner – Curley's Foods, Inc. (Sioux City, Iowa).

More information is available online about paper recycling case studies and best practices, previous award-winning paper recycling programs, free recycling guides and classroom resources, and paper recycling research and statistics.

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