Closing the Loop award goes to Petoskey Plastics
Lansing, MI –The DEQ and Governor’s Recycling Council recognized Petoskey Plastics for excellence in recycling today at the Governor’s Recycling Summit in Plymouth.
Petoskey Plastics was one of 10 honored at the event. The awards are designed to honor organizations excelling in several key categories, including outstanding education programs for K-12 students and youth organizations, new and enhanced programs that bring increased access to recycling, and “closing the loop” programs that design or create new products that can be recycled or that purchase and use products made of recycled content.
These categories are consistent with the objectives and goals outlined in Governor Rick Snyder’s April 2014 statewide recycling plan.
In addition to Petoskey Plastics, the 10 organizations selected for awards include:
Outstanding Education Awards
- Green Living Science, Detroit
- The Ecology Center, Ann Arbor
- Southeast Oakland County Resource Recovery Authority, Southeast Michigan communities
- Carpenter Year Round Elementary School, Lake Orion
- Bob Bowman, Parkside Elementary in Rockford, Inspiring Individual Award
New Recycling Program Award
- Hastings Charter Township, New recycling drop-off center in Barry County
Enhanced Recycling Program Award
- Calhoun County, Expanded drop-off recycling
- City of Plymouth, Expanded to cart-based curbside recycling
- US Farathane, Port Huron, Enhanced recycling opportunities in the workplace
Closing the Loop Award
- Petoskey Plastics, manufacturing solutions that include post-consumer recycled content
To learn more about recycling opportunities in Michigan or to see Michigan’s plan for increasing recycling, visit www.Michigan.gov/MIrecycles.
Learn more at PetoskeyPlastics.com.
The Award
Architectural Salvage Warehouse of Detroit (ASWD) was honored t have the opportunity to create the awards for this distinguished group of environmental leaders across the state of Michigan. These awards embody the same spirit of recycling and reuse by utilizing materials salvaged through deconstruction. These awards feature the following materials:
- The WOOD base of the awards crafted from an antique beam, salvaged through ASWD’s deconstruction of a late 1800’s farm house in Livonia, MI. Through our systematize process, we are able to divert over 90% of the materials from landfills for reuse and recycling. ‘
- The STEEL is fabricated from steel “T” channel salvaged from the former Cadillac Stamping Plant, currently being prepared for an adaptive reuse project. ASWD works with owners to divert materials during the construction process, a triple bottom line to benefit everyone.
- The WOOD upright is created from an antique 2×4 salvaged through ASWD’s deconstruction of an early 1900’s home in Ann Arbor, MI.
- The STONE is cut from marble that was salvaged during the interior deconstruction of historic Newberry Hall, a former home for nurses built in 1898. Newborn Hall is now a model of energy efficient housing in Mid-Town Detroit.
ASWD is a 501(c)3 non-rpofit corporation based in the City of Detroit. Our mission is to transform building material waste into opportunity. We execute this mission by:
- Preserving historic and architectural materials and reducing waste through deconstruction and building materials reuse;
- Providing a supply of reclaimed building materials for home improvement, historic preservation and commercial applications; and
- Creating economic opportunity through reuse job creation, training and market development ASWD conserves historic architectural components and avoids the need to use new material resources and energy for the manufacture of new products. We create new jobs at a ratio exceeding 6 to 1 compared with traditional demolition work. These new jobs service to provide training and employment opportunities for our local residents. Our training programs have spawned rewarding and sustaining career pathways for countless participants, and our nationally recognized Deconstruction Worker training and credentialing program is an ideal pathway into the construction trades, woodworking, retail and much more.
