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NPEP Success Stories
We
encourage our NPEP partners to submit Success Stories when they have completed
any of their goals. Your Success Story showcases your accomplishments
while providing an example to other organizations that may be looking
for solutions to similar problems. When you achieve any goal identified
in your NPEP application, you become eligible to receive an Achievement
Award. To receive an Achievement Award, submit a Success Story (visit
our Achievement
Award page for instructions). We will post your Success Story here.
At your request, we will also notify your local media of your success.
View photos from the 2008 NPEP Awards Ceremony.
Many of our partners have shared Success Stories. We congratulate these partners for achieving their NPEP goals:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z- 3M Graphics Market Center Enhances Environmental Performance
- Aetna Insulated Wire, Inc. Reduces the Lead in Raw Materials by Over 85,000 Pounds
- Alcatel-Lucent Collects and Recycles Lead-Acid Batteries
- American Video Glass Company Reduces Waste Batch Disposal by 50%
- AEP Ohio's Picway Plant Eliminates PCB-Containing Transformer / Rectifier Sets
- Anderson Instrument Company, Inc. Challenges Regulations, Eliminates 500 Pounds of Mercury
- Appalachian Power Company’s (APCO’s) Amos Plant Reduces the Amount of PCB-containing Transformer / Rectifier Sets
- Appalachian Power Company’s (APCO’s) Clinch River Plant Reduces the Amount of PCB-containing Transformer / Rectifier Sets
- Argonne National Laboratory Reduces Mercury and Lead by Collecting and Recycling Mercury-containing Equipment and Expanding Lead Recycling
- Arrow Reduces Naphthalene Use by 75%
- Baldwin Hardware Recovers 1,000 Pounds of Lead and Saves $40,000 Annually
- Bard Brachytherapy Inc. Reduces Lead Use
- Benchmark Electronics Reduces Lead by 54%
- Benchmark Electronics Exceeds Lead Reduction Goal
- BFRC Recycles Lead from Wheel Weights and Lead-Acid Auto Batteries
- Blount International, Inc. Reduces Total Lead Usage by 35%
- Bowling Green State University Recycles More Than 11,000 Pounds of Elemental Mercury in Continuing NPEP Effort
- Bridgestone Americas Motorsports Eliminates 2,240 Pounds of Lead by Replacing Wheel Weights
- Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC Eliminates Over 1 Million Pounds of Lead by Replacing Wheel Weights
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Reduces Mercury and PCBs
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Reduces Mercury Inventory by 65%
- Certified Automotive Recycler (CAR) Program Gives Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery a Boost
- Caribbean Electroplating, Inc. Eliminates 93 Pounds of Lead
- Chase Scientific Glass, Inc. Eliminates Lead
- Checkpoint Caribbean, LTD Eliminates Lead in Manufacturing
- City of Los Angeles LA World Airports Takes the Mercury Challenge and Completes Removal of 2,550 Pounds of Mercury
- City of Oxnard Eliminates Lead Use in its Ttire Shop
- City of Reno Public Works Eliminates Lead Wheel Weight Use on City Vehicles
- Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Reduces Mercury by 50%
- Con Edison Company of New York Recovers and Recycles Over One Million Pounds of Lead
- Consumers Energy Reduces Mercury by 70% in Continuing Effort
- Continuous Coating Corporation Reduces Use of Lead by 70,000 Pounds Per Year, Increases Process Efficiency
- Crown Equipment Corporation Eliminates Chromium, Expands NPEP Project, and Saves Over $65,000 Annually
- Dallas Aviation Department’s Love Field Terminal Facility Removes More Than 4400 Pounds of PCB Ballasts
- Dallas Aviation Department’s Love Field Terminal Facility Removes an Additional 1500 Pounds of PCB Ballasts and Over 60 Pounds of Mercury
- Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport Eliminates Use of Trifluralin Containing Herbicide
- Dow Chemical Company Reduces Methanol Emissions by 180,000 pounds in 2Q 2008
- Dow Chemical Company Reduces Volatile Organic Compound Emissions by 60 Tons through August 2008
- DuPont's Titanium Technologies Reduces Dioxin By 63%
- DuPont Titanium Technologies Reduces Priority Chemicals at Edge Moor Site
- Eastman Kodak Company Reduces Methylene Chloride Emissions by 483,000 Pounds
- Embraer Eliminates Methylene Chloride, Saves $20,000 Annually
- Embraer Recycles Spent Fluorescent Bulbs, Replaces with Lower-Mercury Content Bulbs; Recovers and Recycles Cadmium
- Epson Portland, Inc. Takes Mercury Challenge
- Exide Technologies Saves $350,000 by Reducing Lead Going to Landfill
- Federal-Mogul: Boyertown Eliminates Lead and Changes Regulatory Status
- Federal-Mogul: Driveline Products Eliminates Over 24,000 Pounds of Lead
- Federal-Mogul: Powertrain Systems Reduces Lead and Changes Regulatory Status
- Flowserve
Corporation Eliminates MEK, Saves $45,000 Annually
- Fort Hood Takes the NPEP Mercury Challenge
- GE Energy Exceeds Lead Reduction Goal
- General
Electric Company, Bridgeville Glass Plant Reduces 86,000 Pounds
of Lead
General Electric Company's Circleville Lamp Plant Recovers Lead and Mercury - General Electric Company's Winchester Lamp Plant Reduces 656,920 Pounds of Lead
- General Motors Corporation Recycles Over One Million Pounds of Hazardous Waste
- GrafTech's Specialty Carbon and Graphite Manufacturing Plant Reduces the Amount of TRI Reportable Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds Sent for Off-Site Landfill Disposal
- Honeywell International Eliminates Five Percent of Nation's Mercury Use
- International Truck and Engine Corporation Reduces Lead by 98 Percent
- Johnson Controls, Inc. Reduces Waste, Saves Money, and Increases Production Rates
- K&L Microwave, Inc. Reduces Lead and Reduces Reporting Requirements
- Kalas Manufacturing, Inc. Eliminates Over 100,000 Pounds of Lead
- Lansing Board of Water and Light Recovers and Recycles 76,884 Pounds of Lead From Lead Service Replacement Program
- Luminant Generation Company LLC Removes 319 Pounds of Mercury from Power Plants
- Madison Industries Saves $139,000 by Reducing Lead
- Material Sciences Corporation Reduces Naphthalene Through Product Substitution
- Merisol Reduces 1.6 Million Pounds of Priority Chemicals
- Micron Technology Puerto Rico, Inc. Reduces Lead by 72%
- Modine Manufacturing Company - Harrodsburg Saves $111,000 Annually After Eliminating TCE
- Moog Components Group Eliminates Lead in Slip Rings
- Motiva Enterprises LLC Recovers 13,000 Pounds of Naphthalene
- National Institutes of Health Reduces Mercury and Improves Sustainability of Laboratory Facility Decommissioning
- NEC Electronics Modifies Manufacturing Process, Eliminates Phenol, Dichlorobenzene, and Trimethyl Benzenes
- Norco Cleaners Recycles 5466 Pounds of Naphthalene
- Okonite Company, Inc. Eliminates Over 100,000 Pounds of Lead
- Okonite Company, Inc. Eliminates Over 41,000 Pounds of Lead
- Old Bridge Chemicals Saves $770,896 Annually by Reducing Lead
- Osram Sylvania Products, Inc: Automotive Lighting Eliminates 20,300 Pounds of Lead
- Parker Hannifin Eliminates Chromic Acid and Takes the Mercury Challenge
- PolyOne Corporation Reduces Lead Use by 14,000 Pounds
- Prior Coated Metals Reduces Naphthalene Use By 72%
- Public Service Enterprise Group Removes and Recycles Lead and Mercury
- Pull-A-Part, LLC Removes Vehicle Mercury Switches, Recovers and Recycles 104 Pounds of Mercury
- Raytheon Reduces On-Site Mercury by 46%
- R3 Environmental Management, Inc. Collects and Recycles Mercury in Continuing Effort
- Remington Arms Company, Inc. Reduces Lead Sent to Landfill
- Rubicon LLC Reduces Benzene and Aniline
- Sanmina-SCI Reduces Over 13,000 Pounds of Lead
- Sentara: Williamsburg Community Hospital Replaces Mercury Sphygmomanometers
- Shell Norco Recovers 12 Tons of Lead Previously Sent to Land Disposal
- Sheppard Air Force Base Reduces Costs $36,000 Annually Through Product Substitution
- Sony Electronics Inc. Recycles Over 34,000 Pounds of Lead
- Southern Graphic Systems Inc. Eliminates Lead
- State of Nevada Eliminates 225 Pounds of Lead by Replacing Wheel Weights
- Sylvin Technologies, Inc. Eliminates Over 475,000 Pounds of Lead; Now A Lead-Free Facility
- Sylvin Technologies, Inc. Eliminates Over 475,000 Pounds of Lead; Now A Lead-Free Facility
- Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Makes Schools Safer by Removing 2000 Pounds of Formaldehyde and 200 Pounds of Mercury
- Texas Electric Cooperatives/Solomon Recycles Over 3,000 Pounds of Lead
- Thomas & Betts Eliminates Cadmium and Hex. Chrome from Plating Process
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Eliminates 1,700,000 Pounds of Hazardous Waste
- Uniseal, Inc. Eliminates 1200 Pounds of Lead
- University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Reduces Mercury-Containing Equipment Campus Wide
- U.S. Navy Completes Installation of Amalgam Separation Equipment in CONUS Navy Dental Treatment Facilities
- U.S. Postal Service: Northeast Area Recycles Lead and Mercury
- U.S. Postal Service: Pacific Area Reduces Over 10,000 Pounds of Lead Wheel Weights
- U. S. Steel Corporation Reduces Lead and Chromic Acid, Saves $43,000
- Valero Recovers and Recycles Naphthalene, Saves $891,000
- West Virginia Bureau of Public Health - Office of Laboratory Services Replaces Mercury Thermometers with Non-Mercury Devices
- Wirerope Works, Inc. Eliminates 27,000 Pounds of Lead, Saves $50,000 Annually
- Wyandotte High School Takes NPEP Mercury Challenge
- Xerox Corporation: Webster Reduces Tetrahydrofuran, Saves Over $65,000 Annually