Having successfully helping turn 200,000 tons of paper, plastic and other waste material that comes in the mail into new products, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has decided to expand its popular Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program.
A major part of the USPS' drive to "leave a green footprint," the Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program will be expanded to include 8,064 Post Offices nationwide, an increase of 2,435 Post Offices since the project began in 2005.
The Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program encourages Post Office customers to "read, respond, recycle" their P.O. box mail right in the Post Office instead of taking it home and putting it in the trash. Secure recycling bins, designed to protect the customers' identity, are provided in the Post Office lobbies.
"Lobby recycling helps divert paper waste from landfills, eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from solid waste disposal," said Deborah Giannoni-Jackson, vice president of USPS Employee Resource Management in a press release. "In 2009, the Postal Service sold raw materials from recyclables, diverting them from landfills, making us greener and producing a positive impact on our bottom line."
No newcomers to environmental responsibility, the USPS currently operates over 43,000 alternative fuel-capable vehicles and has been using electric vehicles for over 100 years. Over the years, USPS has won more than 75 environmental awards, including 40 White House Closing the Circle awards and 10 EPA WasteWise Partner of the Year awards.
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Comments
Do you need to have a post office box to participate in the recycling program? Will it be evident to non post office box owners or users where to find the receptacle(s)? If you are going to organize efforts to deal with offensive mailings or to give advice about having persons replace you on mailings you no longer wish to receive, will you please ask your contact persons or supervisors if this is going to be a goal of your group? If you want to have a Board of Directors, in addition to the U.S. Cabinet, will you hold meetings for interested persons and/or sent newsletters, and decide how private this will be? These features are being directed to the credit card application mailings, in addition to assuring that the religious groups can be heard by the government in the presence of separation of church and state restrictions. If these groups do not respond to those people who have in the past tried to find cooperation channels, please look elsewhere.
I have found additional information at the wikipedia retrieval when I tried to find a way to ask about whether opened mail is to be added to the receptacles, in addition to your suggestion that unopened mail could be returned for recycling. It might be useful for your group to realize that the goals referred to in 2008 will be important to evaluate if there is any change in the volume of mail returned and your ability to prevent any insults to hurt the feelings of persons who do need to communicate with your customers. I hope that you have been informed about the seriousness of your comments. Simply this means that you might need to confer with the senders of mail that might begin to be returned, or the mail might be burned so that few peioke will be offended, excluding the EPA, and this might be illegally done, and your comments need to be more to the point.