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Montgomery County’s 20th Annual Recycling Achievement Recognition Ceremony to be Held Thursday, May 23, at Bethesda North Conference Center
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection, which takes pride in being a Washington area leader in recycling, at noon on Thursday, May 23, will hold its 20th Annual Montgomery County Recycling Achievement Recognition Ceremony and honor a total of 16 businesses and nonprofit organizations and 11 multi-family properties for their efforts in helping the County move toward its recycling goals.
The ceremonies, which are held as the County celebrates Recycling Awareness Week, will be held at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center at 5701 Marinelli Road in North Bethesda.
Five individuals and one family also will be recognized for their efforts to encourage and motivate others in their communities or workplaces to increase waste reduction, reuse, recycling, buying recycled and composting/grasscycling efforts.
The businesses and nonprofits will be recognized in the following categories: excellence in recycling more than 70 percent of their waste stream during calendar year 2018; innovative waste reduction, reuse and/or recycling programs; and exemplary efforts to reinvigorate waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
David Biderman, executive director and CEO of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), will be the featured speaker and will share his insight on the state of recycling and the impacts of markets on recycling.
For more information about the Recycling Achievement Recognition Program, and about past honorees, go to https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/sws/awards/.
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