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February 28, 2008

State environmental agency improving its own recycling

The state Department of Environmental Management is launching a new recycling program tomorrow for its own employees.

It turns out, much of the paper that DEM employees were setting aside to be recycled was actually finding its way into the general trash.

Now, thanks to a grant from the Governor’s Commission on Disabilities, the Department will be able to safely recycle some of its sensitive information.

The grant will also help Better Shred, a wing of Cranston Arc, which employs adults with developmental disabilities.

Tomorrow at 9 a.m., Better Shred will deliver 17 66-gallon, secure plastic recycling containers to DEM’s offices at the Foundry Building on Promenade Street, Providence. About 320 employees use the bins to dispose sensitive or confidential information that would otherwise find its way to the landfill.

When the bins are full, Better Shred employees will pick them up and take them to a facility in Cranston and have them shredded in accordance with federal regulations. The paper will be sold for reuse.

Other state offices will participate, including the Department of Elderly Affairs, DCYF Juvenile Corrections and the even the Disability Commission.

Recently, the DEM announced it would reinvigorate its current law regarding corporate recycling, asking 2,300 businesses to report information about their trash and recycling efforts online.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 2:34 PM | Permalink

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