California and Nevada, along with parts of Oregon and Washington state, will join the broader program in the second quarter of 2000. It will be up to each associate to do his or her part to ensure that we recycle more paper and other materials than we ever have. Each Bank of America associate soon will get a specially marked blue desk- side container for paper, including confidential material. Each associate will empty his or her desk-side container into larger bins that will be conveniently located and can be locked, if appropriate. The new program integrates recycling with secured document destruction, which means virtually every piece of paper can be placed in the desk-side containers.
Paper is the largest component of the bank's waste stream.
SDA ships the processed material to paper mills that can turn it into cereal boxes and other useful products. Vandiver made the announcement in a national news conference hosted by Bank of America from the recycling plant of SDA in Charlotte. We specialize in large-volume, regional and national accounts. Our facilities have 24-hour security monitoring and surveillance and our uniformed employees wear identification badges. Vandiver said the impact of the new National Desk-Side Recycling Program will be enormous.