CITY OF INDUSTRY, CALIF.—For the fifth consecutive year, Bentley Prince Street has been recognized for its efforts to reduce waste and conserve resources. It is the winner of the Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) award. Sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the state’s leading authority on recycling and waste reduction, the WRAP Awards recognize California companies for their commitment to a range of environmentally preferable business programs, including resource-efficient practices and innovative waste reduction, reuse and recycling achievements.
“At Bentley Prince Street, just as we have our own Mission Zero goal of eliminating our potential negative impact on the environment by the year 2020, we’re equally committed to helping move California toward a zero-waste future,” said Anthony Minite, president of Bentley Prince Street. “We’re honored to receive this award, which acknowledges our continual focus on conserving resources and promoting sustainable business practices throughout every area of our operations.”
Since 1994, the company has achieved a number of other significant environmental milestones:
• Made 100 percent of its electrical energy requirements renewable;
• Reduced waste sent to landfill by 95 percent;
• Reduced net absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 75 percent;
• Reduced water intake by 71 percent;
• Reduced overall energy use by 57 percent; and
• Reduced NOx by 36 percent.
Bentley Prince Street’s California mill also was the first carpet manufacturing facility in the country to receive a silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB).
“A healthy business community is indispensable to our economy and the steps these WRAP Award winners have taken toward resource management, recycling and waste reduction are very impressive,” said California Integrated Waste Management Board Chair Margo Reid Brown. “All these businesses have managed to make their bottom line greener, while helping preserve our environment as well.”
Now in its 15th year, the WRAP awards recognize California companies that develop innovative and aggressive programs to reduce the amount of non-hazardous solid waste they generate.
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