Several Laboratory employees received cash awards for their waste minimization plans, programs and ideas during a ceremony Friday in the Physics Building Auditorium as part of the fourth annual Waste Minimization Awards Program. Depending on the number of submissions for each category, first, second and third place awards were given this year. Lab Deputy Director Jim Jackson presented the awards. Also present were Environmental Stewardship Program Manager Tom Starke, EM Deputy Program Director Reed Jensen and Nolen. The goal of environmental stewardship, he said, is to reduce waste and its costs to the point where as little money as possible is used for waste management, meaning more money is available for research and development and operations.
Environmentalism is here.
And if we can show that the Lab is doing business in an environmentally responsible manner, that gives us a competitive edge over the other laboratories. Our hope is that the Lab does more than what rules and regulations call for, because that sets us on a higher plane. The following are the winners and a description of their proposal. They also determined that it was less expensive to recover the tritium than it was to package, transport and dispose of it. This proposal showed that 95 percent of the materials being shipped didn't require the lead liner.