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Editorial Board Palm Beach County Moves Into

Editor: James A. Cioffi First Place Recycling Position
james@jcclaw.com
Feature Writers: Dawn Levinstein, POA Solid Waste Authority dispelling recycling myths and ensuring every resident,
Gail Coppage, POA visitor and business in the county is properly informed
Commissioner Maria Marino Of Palm Beach County and inspired to participate in recycling.
Katie Roundtree
Contributing Exceeds Florida Department The Solid Waste Authority invites the public to visit
Reporter: Don Kiselewski their recovered materials processing facility (recycling
Of Environmental Protection facility) to see the recycling operation themselves and
Your editors strongly believe that the number learn more. To arrange a presentation and/or tour, please
of people who do become involved with any Recycling Goal contact education@swa.org or visit swa.org/education to
news medium directly reflects on that medium’s learn more. For more information on Palm Beach County’s
excellence, versatility and broad viewpoint. Palm Beach County has once again recycling program, contact Recycling, Education and
Therefore, we invite PGA residents to contribute exceeded the 75 percent recycling Marketing Manager and Palm Beach County Recycling
articles or current, timely news items and/or
“Letters to the Editors.” goal set by the Florida Department Coordinator Jessica Winter at jwinter@swa.org.
Articles/letters are subject to editing and editors’ of Environmental Protection (FDEP). About The Solid Waste Authority Of Palm Beach
right to publish. Submission must include writer’s Palm Beach County achieved an County
name, address and telephone number. Unsigned articles overall 80 percent recycling rate in The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County (SWA
/letters will not be published. Opposing views to article 2022, placing the county first among or Authority) is a Dependent Special District that was
viewpoints contained in this paper are welcome. all 67 counties in the state. That’s a created by the Florida Legislature in 1975. Since then,
Articles do not necessarily represent the viewpoint two-point increase from 2021 when the county achieved a the SWA has developed an award-winning integrated solid
of the C.A.N.! organization. Submissions should 78 percent rate. Only two other counties exceeded the 75 waste management system to handle the county’s waste and
be mailed or delivered by the tenth of each month percent goal in 2022: Collier at 78 percent and Charlotte recyclables. We call ourselves AWAY: whether you throw
for the following month’s publication (example: by at 76 percent. it, recycle it or flush it AWAY, we put your waste to work.
January 10 for February publication) to: Palm Beach County recycled approximately 3.2 million Each year, we:
C.A.N.! Editors
or tons of the 4 million tons of municipal solid waste collected ➢ Process almost 90,000 tons of recyclables
Contact the publisher for additional information in 2022. ➢ Burn approximately 1.8 million tons of trash to
regarding submissions, fax (561) 627-9088 or e-mail “Recycling is a community effort and recognition generate electricity at renewable energy facilities
canpga@yahoo.com. for this achievement goes to the millions of residents, ➢ Produce enough electricity to power approximately
Let’s hear from you. visitors and businesses that participate in our dual-stream 90,000 homes
system, as well as Authority staff who work toward our ➢ Recycle more than 150,000 tons of wastewater
recycling efforts every day,” said Executive Director Dan treatment residuals (sludge from flushes) into an
Pellowitz. “We owe this outstanding achievement to our environmentally-friendly fertilizer amendment
highly successful residential and commercial recycling ➢ Safely dispose of more than 4.2 million pounds of
programs, the performance of our waste-to-energy home hazards
facilities in recovering metals and energy from waste, ➢ Collect rainwater from the roofs of Renewable
the performance of our permitted partners recovering Energy Facility 2 and store it in a 2-million-gallon cistern,
and putting to beneficial use yard waste, construction and which is used as part of the energy making process
demolition debris, concrete, and much more.” Anyone can sign up on the SWA’s website to receive
Our county’s recycling success is possible because of SWA news, calendar updates, job announcements or other
all who recognize the value of recycling and are dedicated web postings of interest. Should you sign up online to
to recycling right every day in Palm Beach County. While receive SWA’s news releases, we can remove you from
this is an achievement to be celebrated, there’s still more the distribution list by sending a reply with the subject
John Deloach work to be done. Some incorrectly believe that recycling “Remove” as a reply to this email.
Connect with the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach

isn’t taking place in Palm Beach County. The Authority’s
Experienced Driver Public Affairs and Recycling Department is dedicated to County at swa.org or on social media.
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