NPEP Success Stories

We encourage our NPEP partners to submit Success Stories when they have completed any of their goals. Your Success Story showcases your accomplishments while providing an example to other organizations that may be looking for solutions to similar problems. When you achieve any goal identified in your NPEP application, you become eligible to receive an Achievement Award. To receive an Achievement Award, submit a Success Story (visit our Achievement Award page for instructions). We will post your Success Story here. At your request, we will also notify your local media of your success.

View photos from the 2008 NPEP Awards Ceremony.

Many of our partners have shared Success Stories. We congratulate these partners for achieving their NPEP goals:

3M Graphics Market Center Enhances Environmental Performance
Alcatel-Lucent Collects and Recycles Lead-Acid Batteries
American Video Glass Company Reduces Waste Batch Disposal by 50%
AEP Ohio's Picway Plant Eliminates PCB-Containing Transformer / Rectifier Sets
Anderson Instrument Company, Inc. Challenges Regulations, Eliminates 500 Pounds of Mercury
Appalachian Power Company’s (APCO’s) Amos Plant Reduces the Amount of PCB-containing Transformer / Rectifier Sets
Appalachian Power Company’s (APCO’s) Clinch River Plant Reduces the Amount of PCB-containing Transformer / Rectifier Sets
Argonne National Laboratory Reduces Mercury and Lead by Collecting and Recycling Mercury-containing Equipment and Expanding Lead Recycling
Baldwin Hardware Recovers 1,000 Pounds of Lead and Saves $40,000 Annually
Benchmark Electronics Reduces Lead by 54%
- Benchmark Electronics Exceeds Lead Reduction Goal
BFRC Recycles Lead from Wheel Weights and Lead-Acid Auto Batteries
Blount International, Inc. Reduces Total Lead Usage by 35%
Bowling Green State University Recycles More Than 11,000 Pounds of Elemental Mercury in Continuing NPEP Effort
Brookhaven National Laboratory Reduces Mercury and PCBs
Caribbean Electroplating, Inc. Eliminates 93 Pounds of Lead
Chase Scientific Glass, Inc. Eliminates Lead
Checkpoint Caribbean, LTD Eliminates Lead in Manufacturing
City of Los Angeles LA World Airports Take the Mercury Challenge and Completes Removal of 2,550 Pounds of Mercury
City of Reno Public Works Eliminates Lead Wheel Weight Use on City Vehicles
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Reduces Mercury by 50%
Con Edison Company of New York Recovers and Recycles Over One Million Pounds of Lead
Consumers Energy Reduces Mercury by 70% in Continuing Effort
Continuous Coating Corporation Reduces Use of Lead by 70,000 Pounds Per Year, Increases Process Efficiency
Crown Equipment Corporation Eliminates Chromium, Expands NPEP Project, and Saves Over $65,000 Annually
Dallas Aviation Department’s Love Field Terminal Facility Removes More Than 4400 Pounds of PCB Ballasts
Dallas Aviation Department’s Love Field Terminal Facility Removes an Additional 1500 Pounds of PCB Ballasts and Over 60 Pounds of Mercury
Dallas/Ft Worth International Airport Eliminates Use of Trifluralin Containing Herbicide
Dow Chemical Company Reduces Methanol Emissions by 180,000 pounds in 2Q 2008
Dow Chemical Company Reduces Volatile Organic Compound Emissions by 60 Tons through August 2008
DuPont's Titanium Technologies Reduces Dioxin By 63%
Eastman Kodak Company Reduces Methylene Chloride Emissions by 483,000 Pounds
Embraer Eliminates Methylene Chloride, Saves $20,000 Annually
Embraer Recycles Spent Fluorescent Bulbs, Replaces with Lower-Mercury Content Bulbs; Recovers and Recycles Cadmium
Epson Portland, Inc. Takes Mercury Challenge
Exide Technologies Saves $350,000 by Reducing Lead Going to Landfill
Federal-Mogul: Boyertown Eliminates Lead and Changes Regulatory Status
Federal-Mogul: Driveline Products Eliminates Over 24,000 Pounds of Lead
Federal-Mogul: Powertrain Systems Reduces Lead and Changes Regulatory Status
Flowserve Corporation Eliminates MEK, Saves $45,000 Annually
Fort Hood Takes the NPEP Mercury Challenge
GE Energy Exceeds Lead Reduction Goal
General Electric Company, Bridgeville Glass Plant Reduces 86,000 Pounds of Lead
General Electric Company's Circleville Lamp Plant Recovers Lead and Mercury
General Electric Company's Winchester Lamp Plant Reduces 656,920 Pounds of Lead
General Motors Corporation Recycles Over One Million Pounds of Hazardous Waste
GrafTech's Specialty Carbon and Graphite Manufacturing Plant Reduces the Amount of TRI Reportable Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds Sent for Off-Site Landfill Disposal
Honeywell International Eliminates Five Percent of Nation's Mercury Use
International Truck and Engine Corporation Reduces Lead by 98 Percent
Johnson Controls, Inc. Reduces Waste, Saves Money, and Increases Production Rates
K&L Microwave, Inc. Reduces Lead and Reduces Reporting Requirements
Kalas Manufacturing, Inc. Eliminates Over 100,000 Pounds of Lead
Lansing Board of Water and Light Recovers and Recycles 76,884 Pounds of Lead From Lead Service Replacement Program
Luminant Generation Company LLC Removes 319 Pounds of Mercury from Power Plants
Madison Industries Saves $139,000 by Reducing Lead
Material Sciences Corporation Reduces Naphthalene Through Product Substitution
Merisol Reduces 1.6 Million Pounds of Priority Chemicals
Micron Technology Puerto Rico, Inc. Reduces Lead by 72%
Modine Manufacturing Company - Harrodsburg Saves $111,000 Annually After Eliminating TCE
Moog Components Group Eliminates Lead in Slip Rings
Motiva Enterprises LLC Recovers 13,000 Pounds of Naphthalene
National Institutes of Health Reduces Mercury and Improves Sustainability of Laboratory Facility Decommissioning
NEC Electronics Modifies Manufacturing Process, Eliminates Phenol, Dichlorobenzene, and Trimethyl Benzenes
Norco Cleaners Recycles 5466 Pounds of Naphthalene
Okonite Company, Inc. Eliminates Over 100,000 Pounds of Lead
Old Bridge Chemicals Saves $770,896 Annually by Reducing Lead
Osram Sylvania Products, Inc: Automotive Lighting Eliminates 20,300 Pounds of Lead
Parker Hannifin Eliminates Chromic Acid and Takes the Mercury Challenge
PolyOne Corporation Reduces Lead Use by 14,000 Pounds
Prior Coated Metals Reduces Naphthalene Use By 72%
Public Service Enterprise Group Removes and Recycles Lead and Mercury
Pull-A-Part, LLC Removes Vehicle Mercury Switches, Recovers and Recycles 104 Pounds of Mercury
Raytheon Reduces On-Site Mercury by 46%
R3 Environmental Management, Inc. Collects and Recycles Mercury in Continuing Effort
Remington Arms Company, Inc. Reduces Lead Sent to Landfill
Rubicon LLC Reduces Benzene and Aniline
Sentara: Williamsburg Community Hospital Replaces Mercury Sphygmomanometers
Shell Norco Recovers 12 Tons of Lead Previously Sent to Land Disposal
Sheppard Air Force Base Reduces Costs $36,000 Annually Through Product Substitution
Sony Electronics Inc. Recycles Over 34,000 Pounds of Lead
Southern Graphic Systems Inc. Eliminates Lead
Sylvin Technologies, Inc. Eliminates Over 475,000 Pounds of Lead; Now A Lead-Free Facility
Sylvin Technologies, Inc. Eliminates Over 475,000 Pounds of Lead; Now A Lead-Free Facility
Thomas & Betts Eliminates Cadmium and Hex. Chrome from Plating Process
Uniseal, Inc. Eliminates 1200 Pounds of Lead
U.S. Navy Completes Installation of Amalgam Separation Equipment in CONUS Navy Dental Treatment Facilities
U.S. Postal Service: Northeast Area Recycles Lead and Mercury
U. S. Steel Corporation Reduces Lead and Chromic Acid, Saves $43,000
Valero Recovers and Recycles Naphthalene, Saves $891,000
West Virginia Bureau of Public Health - Office of Laboratory Services Replaces Mercury Thermometers with Non-Mercury Devices
Wirerope Works, Inc. Eliminates 27,000 Pounds of Lead, Saves $50,000 Annually
Wyandotte High School Takes NPEP Mercury Challenge
Xerox Corporation: Webster Reduces Tetrahydrofuran, Saves Over $65,000 Annually

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NPEP Success Stories

Many of our partners have shared Success Stories. We congratulate these partners for achieving their NPEP goals:

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