Innovative Eco-Pop Designs of Moss Beach Earns California's Top Waste Reduction Honor for Recycling, Feb. 1, 2005, Press Release

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California Integrated Waste Management Board

Innovative Eco-Pop Designs of Moss Beach Earns California's Top Waste Reduction Honor for Recycling

MOSS BEACH—Eco-Pop Designs in Moss Beach received the State of California's top waste reduction environmental award today for outstanding achievement in onsite recycling, materials reuse and diversion, and waste prevention. One of only 10 businesses statewide to earn this distinction, Eco-Pop Designs was presented with the 2004 Waste Reduction Awards Program WRAP of the Year honor by the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

"The innovative and artistic recycling containers that Eco-Pop Designs manufactures are helping to bring California closer to a zero waste society," said Board Chair Rosario Marin during the award ceremony, held at scenic Vista Point off the Golden Gate Bridge where the company's steel recycling containers are in prominent use. "It's a pleasure to honor this business and its voluntary waste reduction efforts. Eco-Pop has earned a place among California's distinguished WRAP of the Year winners."

Located in Moss Beach, Eco-Pop Designs uses art, ecology, and invention to create environmentally friendly products that promote recycling. The business manufactures all-metal recycling containers using the highest amount of recycled and reused materials available. Eco-Pop Designs actively promotes materials reuse, recycling, and waste reduction and has been committed to environmental issues for more than 10 years. The company has earned a number of awards at the State of California Integrated Waste Management Board's annual Recycled Products Trade Show—held to promote uses and markets for recycled-content goods and materials.

"Our deep commitment to the environment has always been the number-one priority and driving force for our business," said Mitch Reid, owner and founder of Eco-Pop Designs. "It is our strong belief that all businesses can reduce their impact on our natural resources if they are willing to be creative and committed. We want to show by example that you can make products that will help save resources and, at the same time, can be produced with minimal impact on the environment. It is a great honor to receive this WRAP of the Year award from the California Integrated Waste Management Board. The Board provides great inspiration and resources to help California citizens and businesses like ours achieve notable waste reduction while also protecting the environment. We hope the WRAP awards inspire other businesses to help preserve the earth's limited natural resources."

Eco-Pop Designs has earned the State's WRAP award for nine years since 1994 and was selected as a distinguished 2004 WRAP of the Year honoree for its model programs to manage materials and reduce waste. For more information on the company's environmental initiatives, please visit www.ecopopdesigns.com/.

Now in its 12th year, the Waste Reduction Awards Program is open to private industry and nonprofit organizations throughout California and provides recognition for exemplary and model business practices to reduce waste, recycle, reuse materials, and send less to landfills. In particular, the WRAP of the Year designation honors companies of all sizes for successful waste reduction practices in the workplace.

The award is a special distinction made from among hundreds of outstanding businesses that earn WRAP awards from the State's Integrated Waste Management Board each year. For 2004, WRAP honors went to 1,403 California companies, from which this year's top 10 WRAP of the Year honorees have been chosen. More than 12,200 WRAP honors have been awarded since the program's inception in 1993, with many companies winning the award for multiple years.

Other winners of the 2004 WRAP of the Year (WOTY) awards include:

American Honda Motor Co. (Torrance, Los Angeles County)

Friedrich-Houston Enterprises (Lomita, Los Angeles County)

Frito-Lay, Modesto Facility (Modesto, Stanislaus County)

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company—Palmdale (Palmdale, Los Angeles County)

Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (L.A., Los Angeles County)

Nomad Café, (Berkeley, Alameda County)

Northstar-at-Tahoe (Truckee, Nevada County)

Quady Winery (Madera, Madera County)

RICOH Electronics, Inc. (Tustin, Orange County)

For more details about all WRAP winners and their locations, including WRAP of the Year honoree businesses, please visit us online.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board is the State's leading authority on recycling and waste reduction. It promotes a zero waste California in partnership with local government, industry, and the public. This means reducing waste whenever possible, promoting the management of all materials to their highest and best use, and protecting public health and safety and the environment.