Each year, the NMCRC presents an Excellence in Recycling Award to one business or institution in each member municipality. The awards are presented at the Commission's annual Recycling Awards Luncheon. The Commission held its 14th annual Recycling Awards Luncheon on May 1, 2009.
Award winners are selected based on the amount of material they recycle as well as other factors such as innovative recycling programs and involvement in community recycling efforts. In some years, the Commission presents awards to the residential haulers and processing facilities that are the backbone of recycling efforts. At the 15th annual luncheon in 2010, the Commission will be honoring haulers and processing facilities.
At Security On-Line, which was founded in 1974, more materials are sent out via recycling than are tossed out with the trash. That says a lot for a company that specializes in electronic products such as burglar alarms and other security systems. Over the course of a year, the company, which has 15 employees, brings in truck loads of materials that they use in creating a secure environment for their customers. Recycling is an important part of the company’s everyday business. For example, when crews are out installing a system, they pick up all the scraps from the job and bring them back to the recycling barrels. Besides that, Security On-Line shreds all of its office paper and has a separate place for cardboard as well as plastics and metal. Because of its dedication to recycling, Ambler Borough is pleased to award Security On-Line the Excellence in Recycling Award for its recycling activities.
Each of the 150 employees of the Clayton H. Landis Company has a specific job to provide industrial services to a wide variety of customers or to manufacture service equipment for material handling projects. But whether they work in one area or another, they all pay close attention to the recycling efforts of the company. Trash disposal is down considerably due to recycling across the board. Everything has its place for disposal, be it paper, cardboard, or pieces of metal including stainless steel. Dumpsters are filled and emptied on a regular basis. Management has discovered that recycling is as simple as having the right container in the right place at the right time. Because of its comprehensive approach to recycling, the Clayton H. Landis Company of Franconia Township is awarded the Excellence in Recycling Award for its recycling activities in 2008.
Do you ever wonder what happens to a library book that is still popular but can’t be loaned out because of damage through heavy use? It ends up at the HF Group’s shop in Hatfield where it is repaired and sent back to the library. The company, which has customers throughout the country including most of the major libraries, specializes in repairing books. This creates a lot of waste all of which is recycled. Most of the covers due for recycling are cardboard. The company has recycling bins scattered throughout its facility. The 30 to 40 full-time employees fill these bins on a regular basis. Because little waste enters the trash stream from this facility, the HF Group is awarded the Excellence in Recycling Award from Hatfield Borough for its recycling activities in 2008.
The 165 full-time employees at the Porter Instrument Division of Parker Hannifin Corp. manufacture flow measurement and control instruments for liquids or gasses. But while they are busy working to produce fine instruments for customers all over the world, they’re also busy recycling materials in the sprawling plant in Hatfield Township. Recycling bins are strategically located throughout the plant. These include bins located in office spaces where high quality office paper is recycled. Plant workers are instructed to recycle wherever possible whether materials are coming into the plant, being worked on, or being shipped out. Because of its professional approach to recycling, the Porter Instrument Division of Parker Hannifin Corp. is being given the Excellence in Recycling Award for its recycling activities in Hatfield Township in 2008.
Over the past several months, the automobile industry has undergone radical changes. One thing that has not changed is the commitment to recycling that Bergey’s Ford and its 25 employees have made. Throughout the dealership, recycling is evident. Behind the building are dumpsters that take the high-grade paper and cardboard that a busy operation produces every working day. Nothing goes into the trash that can be recycled. An additional benefit is that Bergey’s Ford burns all the used motor oil from oil changes in special furnaces. New oil for those changes is shipped in aboard large tankers so there are no empty oil cans. Because of its common sense approach to recycling, Bergey’s Ford is presented with the Excellence in Recycling Award from Lower Gwynedd Township for its recycling activities in 2008.
It wasn’t hard to get the residents of the Arbour Square Retirement Community to recycle. All it took was clear instructions at a resident orientation followed up by the posting of directions in a “trash room.” As a result, the 160 residents of the retirement community have become avid recyclers in the three years the complex has been their home. Each is given the opportunity to separate their bottles, cans and papers. Joining the residents in the recycling effort is a three-person maintenance team. The maintenance team makes sure that all recyclable containers are in the right place at the right time for disposal. Because of the all-inclusive nature of the recycling effort, Arbour Square Retirement Community is awarded the Excellence in Recycling Award in Lower Salford Township for its activities in 2008.
Since 1961, Neptune has been a premier manufacturer of chemical metering pumps, chemical feed systems and chemical injection accessories. Neptune’s hydraulic and mechanical diaphragm metering pumps are well known for injecting chemicals into boilers and cooling towers. They are also used in water and waste water treatment applications. Recycling is second nature to the company. The various wastes generated at Neptune are kept segregated and then sent to licensed facilities for either recycling or disposal. Some materials that are regularly recycled include wood scrap, cardboard, office paper and fluorescent bulbs. Even shop towels are processed for recycling. Because of its effective recycling activities, Montgomery Township is pleased to award the Neptune Chemical Pump Company the Excellence in Recycling Award for its recycling activities.
Metal Edge International, which was started in 1978, fills a unique niche in the box production business. It manufactures boxes with metal supports at each corner to provide extra support and strength during the shipping process. During the manufacturing process, scrap cardboard is collected and baled. The company, which has 15 employees, recycles about 30 bales (about 15 tons) every six weeks. Recycling has become an ingrained habit at Metal Edge International rather than something unusual. Because of its valuable contribution to recycling, Metal Edge International is awarded the Excellence in Recycling Award for its recycling activities in 2008 in North Wales Borough.
Every time a customer walks out of Cumberland Farms with a candy bar, a box of cookies, or a bag of potato chips, chances are good that it came into that store inside of a cardboard box. Considering the thousands of customers that patronize Cumberland Farms, that’s a lot of cardboard boxes. Cumberland management learned a long time ago that recycling was the way to handle all of those boxes. To achieve that end, Cumberland has two dumpsters behind its store: one for trash and another for cardboard. Because of its continuing stress on recycling every year, the Cumberland Farms operation in Souderton Borough is presented with the Excellence in Recycling Award for recycling in 2008.
Tiger Group is a printer that specializes in large jobs such as magazines and posters. Normally when you think of printers, you think of scrap paper. Tiger recycles plenty of paper, but it also recycles scrap aluminum from the plates it uses for printing. Every month the company uses between 1600 and 2400 plates, equaling about 900 pounds of aluminum. Tiger also recycles used ink. It refills 55-gallon drums with used ink for reprocessing. Tiger collects and shreds hundreds of pounds of scrap paper, which end up heading for a recycling facility. Because of the thorough job it does in recycling, Tiger Group has been awarded the Excellence in Recycling Award for its 2008 recycling activities in Telford Borough.
When customers walk into the Roy Lomas Carpets and Hardwoods facility in Towamencin Township, they’re walking into a neat, well-ordered facility. That same neatness has been the hallmark of the organization for the past 45 ears. The company installs carpets and floors. When it leaves a job, no scraps are left behind. Everything, be it scraps of carpet, unusable pieces of flooring, cardboard, or aluminum cans, is placed in special bins for a trip to a recycler somewhere. Because Roy Lomas Carpets and Hardwoods is a good recycling neighbor, it is being given the Excellence in Recycling Award from Towamencin Township for its recycling activities in 2008.
ACME Markets - Ambler
ACME Markets - Towamencin
Accurate Recycling
Advanced Equipment Sales
Alderfer Glass Co.
Alliance Graphics, LLC
Allied Waste
Ambler Savings Bank - Ambler
American Legion Post No. 234
Asher's Chocolates
Barnside Farm Compost Facility
Bell Atlantic (Verizon)
Bergey Inc.
BFI Bucks-Mont Division
BFI Recyclery
Brooks Instruments
C & C HVAC
Central Montgomery Medical Center
Ches-Mont
Christopher Dock Mennonite High School
Clemens Family Markets - Spring House
Cognis Corporation
COSTCO Wholesale - Montgomery Township
Cougle's Recycling Center
CraftBuilt Manufacturing Co.
Delbar Products
Didden Greenhouses
Edwin Ebersole (Former Chair, NMCRC)
EnAct, Pennfield Middle School
Estate of George S. Snyder
Foulkeways at Gwynedd
Fox Bindery
Genuardi's Market - Towamencin
Giant Market - Montgomery Township
Giuseppe's Pizza Restaurant
Grace Lutheran Church - Hatfield
Gwynedd Mercy College
Harleysville Insurance
Harleysville Savings Bank
Harleysville National Bank
Harriet Carter Gifts
Hatfield Quality Meats
Heather Meadows Town Home Assoc.
Heritage Village Apartments
H.P. Cadwallader, Inc.
Indian Creek Foundation
Jet Plastica Industries
John's Interiors
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
J.P. Mascaro
KCBA Architects
Ken Hamilton, faculty adviser to SAVE
K'nex Industries
Leidy's Inc.
Leonard Hauser
Library Binding Co. of PA
Lizell's Office Products
Lower Gwynedd Solid Waste Advisory Committee
The Lutheran Community
Marconi Electronics (BES Systems)
M.H.Zeigler & Sons
Mid-Atlantic Packaging
Montgomery Mall
Montgomery Township Environmental Advisory Committee
Moore Products (Siemens Advanced Solutions)
Moyer Packing (MOPAC)
Moyer & Son
North Penn Beverage
Oldcastle Glass
Ortho McNeil Pharmaceuticals
PA Millworks
Parker Hannifin Corp.
Parkview at Oak Crest
Penn Color Inc.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Pennsylvania State Senator Edwin G. Holl
Pennsylvania State Senator Stewart Greenleaf
Pennsylvania State Representative Bob Godshall
Pennsylvania State Representative Kate Harper
The Peter Becker Community
Pheasant Run Apartments
Phoenix Microwave
Prudential AARP
Rapid Recycling, Inc.
Ray Masser (Montgomery County Recycling Coordinator)
Redner's Warehouse Markets - Montgomery Township
Rohm & Haas
Rosenberger's Dairies
Safeguard Business Systems
SAVE (Students Against Violating the Earth)
Shelly Enterprises
Scooter's Bike Shop
Souderton Area High School Arrowhead (Recycling Edition)
Souderton Independent
Spring House Estates
Staples - Montgomery Township
St. Paul's Green Team Environmental Ministry
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Surco Rubber Co.
Target Stores - Montgomery Township
Tex Mex Connection Restaurant and Bar
Towne Restaurant of Telford
Union National Bank (Univest)
Valerio's Produce
Wal-Mart - Lower Salford
Walter A. Dwyer, Inc.
Wampler Foods (Pilgrim's Pride)
Wargo Interiors
Washington Glenn Apartments
Waste Management of Indian Valley
Waste Management of Telford
WAWA Food Markets
WAWA - Souderton
Wendy's - Towamencin
Wissahickon Middle School
Woodway Manufacturing
World Wide Stereo