Casella Waste Systems, Foley Distributing and SCA's Power of Three(TM) Program Receives the 2012 Vermont Governor's Award for...
23 May 2012 - 6:00AM
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Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ: CWST), Foley Distributing and SCA,
have advanced their leadership in providing consumers with resource
sustainability services by teaming up and winning the Vermont
Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. The awards were
established in 1993 to recognize the actions taken by Vermonters to
conserve and protect natural resources, prevent pollution, and
promote environmental sustainability.
The award was received in recognition of their collaborative new
service called The Power of Three™ an innovative solution for
businesses dedicated to participating in genuine "closed loop
recycling." The Power of Three is a three-step process of picking
up a customer's recycling, processing that recycling into new
products, and then providing those products back to the customer in
the form of new hand towels, tissue paper, and toiletry items.
The three companies complement and integrate each other's
individual strengths and proximity to one another's facilities to
offer a service that reduces a customer's carbon emissions,
tightens their supply chains and promotes increased recycling
rates.
"One of our goals as a company is to help our customers ensure
that as few resources as possible are wasted," said John Casella,
Chairman and CEO of Casella. "We are intent in our mission of
taking their waste streams and transforming them into new products
they can use. Our partnership with Foley Distributing and SCA
allows us to deliver the promise of a genuine resource renewal
loop."
Mark Foley, President of Foley Distributing, said, "We believe
that the businesses that make, sell, and distribute products also
need to shoulder the responsibility for ensuring that none of those
product resources are wasted once a customer has stopped using
them. This is what The Power of Three accomplishes."
Brad Bingham, District Manager for SCA's Away from Home
Professional Hygiene business in North America said, "SCA is very
proud to partner with two Vermont-based companies to allow our
customers in the Northeast to close the resource loop. This type of
partnership will be a local, even global model for how
environmentally minded companies can team up to accomplish much
more than they ever could on their own. The ultimate winners are
the customers."
For further information about The Power of Three™, please
contact Steve McDonnell, Casella Waste Systems' Director of Sales
and Marketing at (802) 772-2226, or visit the Power of Three at
http://www.casella.com/P3.
About Casella Waste Systems: Casella Waste
Systems provides solid waste management services consisting of
collection, transfer, disposal, recycling and composting services
in the northeastern United States. Casella operates five regional
Zero-Sort recycling facilities, operates a unique closed loop paper
recycling solution, offers anaerobic digestion and on-site options
for organic waste, and produces renewable energy through landfill
gas facilities.
About Foley Distributing Corp.: Foley
Distributing was founded in 1973 in Rutland, Vermont. Foley has
played a major role in converting hundreds of businesses to
sustainable, green programs that lessen their impact on the
environment while improving the health and safety of their
employees and building occupants. Their service area includes the
entire State of Vermont, Western, Central and Southern New
Hampshire, upstate New York (including the Capital District) and
Northern Massachusetts. Foley Distributing is a member of Network
Services, Distribution by Design™, located in Schaumburg, Illinois,
a distribution network with over $10 billion in annual sales.
About SCA: SCA's away from home
professional hygiene business is one of the three largest producers
of away-from-home tissue products in North America. They supply
paper napkins, tissues, towels, specialty wipers, dispensers and
soap used in commercial settings such as restaurants, office
buildings, schools and healthcare facilities. Tork® products are
made from 100-percent recycled content. SCA uses more than 750,000
tons of recycled paper a year; on average, more than 60 percent of
those tons are post-consumer waste. The first American papermaker
to earn EcoLogo™ certification, SCA also has earned Green Seal™
certification on many of its products. More information is
available at www.torkusa.com.
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Contact: Steve McDonnell Casella Waste Systems Director of Sales
and Marketing (802) 772-2226 http://www.casella.com/P3
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