Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP)

2007 WRAP of the Year (WOTY)

The Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) recognizes California businesses that have made outstanding efforts to reduce nonhazardous waste and send less garbage to our landfills. "WRAP of the Year" recognizes five of the best examples of these efforts, which serve as waste management models to the rest of their industry.

The 2007 WRAP of the Year winners are:

• KBWB Your TV20
• Network Appliance, Inc.
• Pacific Gas & Electric Company
• Peterson Power Systems
• Remo, Inc.

Other WRAP of the Year Winners: 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996

KBWB Your TV20 (San Francisco) is an independent television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently they have daily "green" programming. Airing four times a day, Your Green Report covers the latest information about individuals, organizations, businesses and government entities and their efforts to make a positive difference on the environment. The station currently uses a bio-diesel Dodge for transportation, recycles outreach promo items, has a universal waste collection for batteries and fluorescents, uses rechargeable batteries, practices video tape recycling, recycles bottles and cans, uses energy efficient equipment, and purchases toxic free cleaners. KBWB Your TV20 station definitely walks its talk and actively seeks ways to further reducing, reusing, recycling, and re-buying!

• KBWB Your TV20 Certificate (Adobe PDF, 761 KB)

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Chair Margo Reid-Brown presented the 2007 Wrap of the year Award to Craig Coane, President and GM, Your TV20 and Lesley Nagy and Brendan Moran Your TV20 Green Life/Eco News.

Craig Coane, President and GM Your TV20 explained how TV20 achieved the honor of Wrap of the Year and their ongoing mission.

Network Appliance, Inc. (Sunnyvale, Santa Clara) is a leader in advanced network storage solutions. They successfully reduced their impact on the local environment in 2006 by diverting 1.8 million pounds of material from the landfill. Robust building construction over the past year has generated over 650,000 pounds of construction debris that has been recycled! They mulch grass and compost organic materials. Mulch made from recycled wood is used in flower beds. The cafeteria uses reusable ceramic trays for catering on site functions and all containers used for food are rinsed and recycled. Electric vehicles are used to shuttle people and goods around their sprawling 12-buidling campus. They hold special events where employees can bring in e-scrap from home for recycling. They also encourage employees to use canvas bags and handed them out to staff at this years Earth Day event. Network Appliance, Inc. strives to continually improve their recycling program.

• Network Appliance, Inc. Certificate (Adobe PDF, 756 KB)

Pacific Gas & Electric Company (San Francisco) provides power to approximately 40 percent of all Californians. The company's headquarter complex is located in San Francisco, where more than 4,000 people work. In addition to recycling bottles, cans, paper, and cardboard, all employees at PG&E's 245 Market Street building can now place their food waste into separate containers for composting, one of the first private sector high-rises anywhere to offer this service. In the bathroom, they use recycled-content paper towels and even the soap dispensers are made from recycled plastic. Perhaps PG&E's most amazing recycling story lies outside the confines of the building, where they donated more than two miles of used natural gas pipe to Ducks Unlimited, which used the pipe to improve water circulation in restored wetlands. PG&E's headquarters-based vehicle fleet consists of plug-in hybrid, fuel cell, and natural-gas powered vehicles. There are no ordinary gasoline vehicles in PG&E's general office pool. In terms of addressing climate change, PG&E's carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt-hour of electricity delivered is more than 60 percent below the national average among utilities. As a Charter member of the California Climate Action Registry, PG&E has quantified their greenhouse gas emissions and is working to reduce them. PG&E aims to be the greenest utility in America, and they are well on their way.

• Pacific Gas & Electric Company Certificate (Adobe PDF, 758 KB)

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CIWMB Chair Margo Reid-Brown presented the 2007 Wrap of the Year award to Bill Harper (R), Vice President, Shared Services and Jay Bruno (L), Senior Director, Operations Support and Excellence, Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Wrap of the Year award winners Bill Harper (R), Vice President, Shared Services and Jay Bruno (L), Senior Director, Operations Support and Excellence, Pacific Gas and Electric Company pose with CIWMB Chair Margo Reid-Brown.

Peterson Power Systems (San Leandro, Alameda) sells and services large diesel engines that are used in trucks, generators, boats, and in heavy equipment like bulldozers and excavators. When managing its own fleet of vehicles this company goes beyond the ordinary by using high efficiency oil, oil filters, and coolant, and extending the intervals between fluid change. Also, by closely matching the vehicle to its intended use, Peterson reduces pollution and fuel use by always having the most efficient vehicle for the job. They re-use nearly all of packaging that arrives at their dock with new engines and engine parts. They recycle all broken parts, and pay their customers to return broken parts to them for recycling. They replaced much of their lawn with Xeriscaping (Zeh-ri-scape-ing), and they grasscycle the rest. Peterson makes sure that office furniture and computers are re-used. They company's purchasing guidelines encourage the use of recycled content products as long as performance is not compromised, regardless of price. To continue to improve their performance, Peterson Power Systems is currently evaluating retreaded tires, moving to 100 percent post consumer office paper (from 30 percent), and becoming a State of California Pollution Prevention Model Shop, as well as seeking 5-star contamination control status from Caterpillar, their supplier. Peterson employees, who initiated many parts of the program, show their concern for the community by collecting used cell phones for a women's shelter, and winter coats for people who can't afford them.

• Peterson Power Systems Certificate (Adobe PDF, 756 KB)

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CIWMB Board Member Wesley Chesbro presented members of Peterson Power System's "WRAP team" with a WOTY award recognizing their numerous waste reduction efforts.

CIWMB honored Peterson Power Systems of San Leandro, CA with a 2007 WRAP of the Year Award.

Remo, Inc. (Valencia, Los Angeles) is a California manufacturer of drums, drum-heads, and other percussion musical instruments. Remo employs a recycling consultant to help them reduce, reuse, and recycle. In 2006, Remo recycled some 420 tons of plastic, cardboard, paper, metal, and shipping supplies. Remo excels in recycling plastic film, including 158 tons of leftover PET-Mylar scrap from manufacturing drum heads. That may not sound like a lot, but 158 tons is enough to fill about eight (8) shipping containers. Remo's finished products, including the drum kits seen on stages around the world, actually are nearly 100 percent recycled content, from the recycled aluminum in the metal rings holding the drum skins, to the recycled fiber of the drum bodies themselves. In 2006, Remo revamped the way they package their products, resulting in the creation of an internal re-use program that reduced the need to buy and dispose of cardboard. They hope to build on their efforts so far, by continuing their efforts to find recycling markets for composite plastic films, and by possibly purchasing a baler to increase efficiency.

• Remo, Inc. Certificate (Adobe PDF, 753 KB)

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CIWMB Board Members Rosalie Mulé and Gary Petersen present the 2007 WRAP of the Year Award to Remo, Inc. Founder and CEO Remo Belli (L) and Remo, Inc. President Brock Kaericher (R).

CIWMB Board Member Rosalie Mulé addresses Remo, Inc. employees at the 2007 WRAP of the Year Award presentation.

CIWMB Board Members Rosalie Mulé and Gary Petersen participate in a drum circle at the Remo, Inc. facility in Valencia, California.

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