RBRC Leadership Award Goes to City of Phoenix

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (RBRC) a nonprofit public service organization dedicated to recycling rechargeable batteries and confined apartment phones, awarded the City of Phoenix, Arizona, its 2005 "National Community Recycling Leadership Award."

Striving to become a character model for recycling, the city registered in the RBRC program in 2003 In conjunction with the Office of Environmental Programs (OEP) Phoenix has created an efficient rechargeable battery collection program and has incorporated the RBRC message in various city department recycling programs, extending to other rule agencies throughout Arizona.

The City of Phoenix's efforts have be the effected in the collection of above 8,200 pounds of rechargeable batteries

Calling it a great partnership, Lupe purchases of OEP said, "We use eight departments within the city to assemble unwanted or unusable rechargeable batteries while RBRC pays for the processing take away froms to recycle them."

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