Great Garbage Grab coincides with Earth Day
Laboratory employees can celebrate Earth Day and help keep the Laboratory clean by participating in the fifth Great Garbage Grab now under way. "How Big Is Your Footprint" is the theme of the Lab's Earth Day celebration.
Employees and employee teams compete to pick up litter and refuse on main roads, parking lots, and immediate areas in and around the technical areas where they work. The organization collecting the most bags of trash receives the "Traveling Trash Trophy." The trophy is retained by the winning organization until the next competition.
"The Great Garbage Grab is a friendly competition between organizations to pick up trash, and it is our responsibility to get involved and keep our environment beautiful," said Angelica Gurule of the Risk Reduction Office (ENV-RRO).
The Waste Disposition Project and Environmental Protection (ENV) Division sponsor the Great Garbage Grab, which continues through April 25.
For information about the Great Garbage Grab, contact Monica Witt by writing to wastenot@lanl.gov or mwitt@lanl.gov by electronic mail.
Other planned activities to coincide with the 38th Earth Day, which is April 22, include the annual Pollution Prevention Awards ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon that day (April 22) in the Physics Building Auditorium.
Pollution Prevention Awards recognize the pollution prevention successes of individuals and teams who have minimized waste; conserved water, electricity or natural gas; reduced air or water pollution; procured products with recycled content; applied sustainable design elements or projects; used the Leadership Energy Environmental Design criteria to design a new facility; or helped in other ways to meet Department of Energy pollution prevention goals.
Fifty-five individuals or teams are receiving Pollution Prevention Awards.
The Laboratory is a co-sponsor of Earth Day activities with the Pajarito Environmental Education Center in Los Alamos. Among the scheduled activities is a talk at 7 p.m., April 22 in Fuller Lodge by James Conca of New Mexico State University. Conca will talk on "The GeoPolitics of Energy: Achieving a Just and Sustainable Energy Distribution by 2040."
Check the PEEC Web page for a schedule of activities.
For more information on the Lab's Earth Day program, see the Web page.
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