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The Recycling Markets Directory has been relaunched with interactive features to help North Carolina businesses and organizations recycle the material they generate by connecting them with nearby recyclers.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) Recycling Program, in partnership with the Glass Recycling Foundation, recently awarded five glass recycling grants totaling $235,000 to support the long-term accessibility and stability of glass recycling in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality today recognized Ajinomoto Health and Nutrition North America, Inc. as an Environmental Steward for its commitment to superior environmental performance. The Steward designation is the highest designation available in the state’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative (ESI).
RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality recognized the newest members of its Environmental Stewardship Initiative (ESI) this week for their commitment to environmental excellence during the ESI annual conference.
“As members of the state’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative, these facilities have committed to going above and beyond to protect our natural resources,” said DEQ Secretary Elizabeth S. Biser. “Their efforts benefit both our environment and our economy.
The ESI Environmental Benchmarking Series is a program that involves ESI members learning from each other. Each part in the series will be hosted at a member's facility and will focus on a specific environmentally-related topic. Attendees will get a rare opportunity to see how another organization goes about achieving their environmental performance goals and can take that information and know-how back to their own facility.
The 2018 Environmental Stewardship Initiative Conference is a two-day event filled with information about environmental topics that affect your organization. The annual ESI Members Meeting is now the ESI Conference. The networking event couldn’t be contained to just one day anymore.
Location: Water & Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County
6300 Breezy Ln
Concord, NC 28025
This one-day training begins by providing auditing techniques and summarizes by carrying out a mock audit to practice these new skills. The goals of this class include:
The N.C. Environmental Stewardship Initiative has developed the ISO 14001:2015 EMS Conversion/Overview Course to help ESI members update their EMS to meet the new version of the ISO 14001 standard.
Training will provide participants with hands-on exercises and in-depth discussion on the changes to the ISO 14001 standard including the following topics:
This module is intended to serve as a Q&A session for any obstacles you may come across while implementing your EMS. It is open to anyone who has taken the EMS Module Series or the ISO14001:2015 Conversion Course.
The EMS Module Series is comprised of 7 one-day modules in which participants receive information and exercises based on ISO 14001:2015 in a group setting. At the end of the series, members will have the framework for an EMS system ready to be implemented in their organization. EMS Module 6 is open to ESI Members only.