Toray Plastics
(America), Inc, the only United States manufacturer of precision-performance
polyester, polypropylene and bio-based films, is pleased to announce that of
all this year’s recipients of the Environment Council of Rhode Island’s John H.
Chafee Conservation Leadership Awards, it received the highest honor.
The annual awards are given in memory of the late governor and U.S. Senator’s
dedication to preserving the environment and to honor organizations that have worked
to continue that legacy. Paul Urick, vice president of production and safety,
Toray Plastics,
Inc., accepted the award on behalf of Toray at a reception held on May 4. The
council also granted awards to ’s
Appalachian Mountain Club trail committee volunteers, the Steel Yard Renewal
project ,
and the Westerly Innovation Network.
Toray’s
comprehensive sustainability initiative, begun in 2004, is guided by a
six-point environmental mission: prioritize environmental preservation; help
prevent global warming; achieve zero emissions of environmental pollutants;
promote recycling; contribute to social well-being through environmental-
improvement technologies and products; and raise employees’ environmental
awareness.
“This award
means a lot to Toray, and we are very grateful for the recognition,” says Rick
Schloesser, president and CEO, Toray Plastics (America), Inc. “Eight years ago
we launched our sustainability initiative and have never wavered in our
commitment, nor will we. It is truly gratifying to know that the results of our
efforts extend far beyond the bounds of our 70-acre campus and are having a
positive effect on the state as well as the global community.”
Among Toray’s
many environmental achievements are the launch of a three-acre solar farm, the
largest such farm in Rhode Island; the reduction by 41 percent of VOCs at its
facility by the diverting of emission streams to a regenerative thermal
oxidizer; the diversion of 1000 tons of non-hazardous waste from landfill and
its shipment to a waste-to-energy plant; the installation plant-wide of
high-efficiency lamps and motion detectors that turn lights off and save 3.16
million KWHs annually; and the recycling of 285 tons of wood, 154 tons of mixed
metal, 65 tons of cardboard, 60 tons of paper, bottles, and cans, 156 tons of
aluminum, nine tons of used oil, six tons of oil absorbents, and 700 tons of PP
and PET scrap, annually.
Toray Plastics (America),
Inc.
www.TorayFilms.com
Environment Council of Rhode Island
www.environmentcouncilri.org
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