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While you know how much we focus on community involvement at the local level, here at Waste Management of Antelope Valley, there are times when we also have to look outward to the global community. All of us are proud of the way the company has stepped up to offer aid to victims of the Tsunami. The enormity of the Tsunami disaster coupled with the complexity of working across two continents has created a relief/recovery challenge of incredible proportions. Many of you probably saw our Chairman, David Steiner on The Tonight Show after making a prize-winning bid of $800,100, for the Jay Leno-Harley Davidson celebrity motorcycle, with proceeds benefiting relief efforts.
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One year ago, our crew at the Lancaster Landfill hit an unprecedented milestone: ten years without a lost-time accident. One year later, and incredibly, the streak is still going strong! The crew—all 17 of them, have together achieved a record which is probably unparalleled in Waste Management, if not in the rest of the waste management business. This record means that in 11 years, no one has pulled a shoulder, broken a wrist, or gotten a cut on the job that was serious enough to cost them an hour of work. In this day and age, as California businesses bemoan rising Workers' Compensation claims and employee absenteeism, this is a truly astonishing feat.
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Although Governor Schwarzenegger is not going to move forward with the government reorganization plan (known as GRP1) which would eliminate the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB), it appears that he is still contemplating action that would merge or eliminate the board. This is worrisome to Waste Management, and we have joined with the Sierra Club, the League of California Cities, Californians Against Waste and a broad spectrum of other stakeholders to raise concerns about the "loss of sunshine” that this move would bring to the solid waste policy and regulatory decision-making process in California.
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Fifty-four extraordinary community volunteers from all over Los Angeles County, including Lancaster's own Diane Grooms, volunteer extraordinaire, were honored on February 27th with speeches and plaques at WM's Second Annual Community Involvement Awards. Diane, who couldn't make it to the ceremony, was honored by Mayor Frank Roberts, and our own Karen Erstad accepted the honor on her behalf. The event, entirely underwritten by Waste Management, underscored the value of volunteers to local communities.
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While one old cell phone might seem to be an inconsequential piece of trash, 40,000 of them are thrown away every day in California, and each one of these phones contains arsenic, mercury, lead, copper, zinc and brominated flame retardants. In an effort to keep these materials out of our landfills, Waste Management subsidiary Recycle America Alliance (RAA), recently launched a special program in partnership with ReCellular Inc to recycle unwanted cell phones. Under this new program, RAA will process discarded cell phones at a specially designed cell phone processing facility, harvest recyclable parts, refurbish and re-deploy reusable phones and recycle non-reusable materials.
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