SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Mandate Recycle bins at all Commissary & AAFES locations, currently this is a voluntary process. Plastic grocery bags Type 2 (high-density polyethylene film - HDPE) and Type 4 (low density or linear-low density polyethylene film - LDPE/LLDPE) can be recycled.

-All vehicles to be energy efficient such as the Ford Fusion which would allow for less gas spent.

-Recycling should be done of cardboard, glass, aluminum. The funds should be put back into rewards for employees pushing for ways to save money in the form of monetary or days off.

-paper should be shredded, but recycled to be used in other ways.

-More solar panels, wind turbines and overall power saving devices.... more »

As a government agency, we should encourage all of our employees and patients to help conserve the resources of the world by truly promoting recyling (having a thorough recyling program) as well as composting (for agencies with cafeterias i.e. Veterans Canteen Services). How can we expect for our fellow citizens to be environmentally friendly if we are not following our own advice.

Most employees at Hanscom AFB don't recycle cardboard, alumninum, glass, or plastic because either they don;t know there are dumpsters outside the building that can do this (they aren't blue, they are brown like trash dumpsters) and because it is a long walk to depose of your daily recyclables even in nice weather...only white paper can be recycled within the office if you put it in the fouo blue office bin.