Governor's Award for Excellence in Environmental Performance

The Governor is looking for companies, organizations or businesses that:

• Used in-plant practices that increased environmental performance
• Turned their garbage into gold
• Discovered their wastes were costing them money -- and did something about it
• Kept toxic materials from becoming hazardous wastes...or wastes from becoming hazardous
• Replaced hazardous materials in processes and products
• Designed new products using minimal amounts of toxins in manufacture and producing minimal hazardous waste.

If your company, or a company you know, has cut costs and its production of hazardous wastes, nominate it for this award.

This award will recognize achievements in environmental performance in Wisconsin, based on the following criteria:

1. Reduction of the degree and amount of waste toxicity emissions and other environmental performance
2. Economic performance as measured by profits generated, costs reduced and payback periods
3. Transferability of the processes or techniques to similar applications for use by other industries, organizations or institutions
4. Commitment, by the applicant, to help other industries, organizations or institutions by sharing information and expertise.

Sponsored by The Wisconsin Department of Commerce and Federation of Environmental Technologists, Inc.

This information on the award program is from the website of the Federation of Environmental Technologists. For additional information please contact FET at 414-354-0070; info@fetinc.org.

Related Sites

• Federation of Environmental Technologists [exit DNR]