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CAMP ATTERBURY JOINT MANEUVER TRAINING CENTER, Ind. - Camp Atterbury will be expanding the installation recycling program by placing an additional paper recycling bin at the installation mailroom parking lot and by providing recycling containers for all installation offices.
Camp Atterbury already has recycling bins at the Soldier Readiness Center and at the solid waste collection point on Durbin Street.
According to Walt Anderson, the environmental management supervisor for Camp Atterbury, approximately four to five tons of paper per month is turned in for the recycling program.
"Office paper, newspaper, magazines and junk mail, pretty much anything that's paper can go into the bins," said Anderson. "We don't have a cardboard program yet, but we are working on a contract for it. We chose these locations because they are where people go anyway," he said.
To keep waste separated at the various offices throughout Camp Atterbury, personnel can pick-up containers for recyclable waste from the environmental office. Shredded paper will need to be bagged prior to being placed in a recycling bin.
"This is an installation initiative," said Anderson. The goal is to have a sustainable installation."
These recycling programs are not exclusive to Camp Atterbury, but are Army-wide initiatives according to Command Sgt. Maj. Rodney Spade, post Command Sgt. Maj. at Camp Atterbury.
"We would like to encourage soldiers and civilians that work here to utilize our recycling program to help meet some of the Installation Command goals," said Spade. "I would like to think that people would want to recycle because it's a good thing."
The recycling programs and other green initiatives bring money back to the garrison that can be used for other projects, said Spade.
The amount of paper that is shredded and wasted here is a very significant amount, said Spade. If everyone, including the mobilizing units, participated in the recycling program, it would bring that much more funding to Camp Atterbury, creating a more sustainable installation.
Recycling paper is not the only green initiative on Camp Atterbury.
"We're trying to do a lot of things with the buildings and barracks here," said Spade.
Some buildings here utilize geothermal energy. The barracks have a hot water on-demand system, which heats water as it is needed, and showers that use less water to save energy, said Spade.
"It will take some time and resources to get the program done. It's not really that we have to do it, but we should do it. It is the right thing to do," said Spade. "Hopefully people get behind the project and we can recycle a lot of stuff and bring some money back into the installation doing other projects."
| Date Taken: | 09.10.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 09.10.2010 14:49 |
| Story ID: | 56046 |
| Location: | CAMP ATTERBURY JOINT MANEUVER TRAINING CENTER, US |
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