Awards Provide Recognition for Arkansas Recycling Efforts

The Arkansas Recycling Coalition (ARC) held its Annual Awards Presentation & America/Arkansas Recycles Day Banquet at DeGray Lake State Resort Park on Nov. 5. Founded in 1989, ARC unites large and small companies, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and individuals in a common effort to promote reduce, reuse, and recycling education and programs. Award sponsors included the Arkansas Soft Drink Association, Delta Plastics of the South, East Arkansas Planning & Development District, Goldman & Company, HAZ-M.E.R.T., Inc., International Paper, and Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control. Award winners were the Pulaski County Regional Solid Waste Management District for the America Recycles Day Award; Taldi Walter, a University of Central Arkansas-Conway student for the Citizen Recycler of the Year; L' Oreal USA for the Corporate Recycler of the Year; Dallas County for the Community Involvement Award; City of Fayetteville for the Government Recycler of the Year; City of Conway/Keep Faulkner County Beautiful for the Recycling Education Program of the Year; and Cabot Public Schools for the School/College/University Recycler of the Year.

(From left) Don Curran of Conway recieves the Arkansas Recycling Coalition's newly created Achievement Award from Steve Martin, Solid Waste Division Chief for the Arkansas Department of EnvironmentalQuality, during the ARC's Annual Awards Presentation & America/Arkansas Recycles Day Banquet at DeGray Lake State Resort Park on Nov. 5. Curran is a longtime employee of Virco Manufacturing Corp. in Conway and a former board member of ARC.

Bill Holden of Cabot Public Schools received the Arkansas Recycling Coalition's 2003 School/College/University Recycler of the Year Award from Steve Martin, Chief of the Solid Waste Division of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, during the ARC's Annual Awards Presentation and America/Arkansas Recycles Day Banquet at DeGray Lake State Resort Park on Nov. 5.