GPO Wins Recycling Award

GPO employees have been recycling for the agency's entire 150-year history. GPO has resided at the same location in the nation's capital since opening for business on March 4, 1861. The agency manages a comprehensive industrial and office recycling program that addresses waste prevention, reducing water and energy consumption, hazardous wastes, and also procurement of recycled content products and renewable resources. In 2009, U.S. GPO recovered nearly 5,000 tons of recyclable materials. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lowered GPO's status from a Large Quantity to a Small Quantity Hazardous Waste Generator. GPO's also began printing the Congressional Record and Federal Register on 100% recycled paper during the last year.