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A simple goal - recycling everything that can be recycled
The Port's hazardous waste reduction and recycling programs at both the Seaport and Sea-Tac Airport prevent pollution by managing the use of hazardous materials, reducing the amount of hazardous waste created, and proactively recycling.
Education is key to effective recycling. The Port has programs in place to educate both its employees and its many tenants.
| The Port recycles: | ||
| antifreeze | asphalt | aluminum cans |
| batteries | brochures | cardboard |
| catalogs | coffee filters | coffee grounds |
| computers | cooking oils | concrete s |
| contaminated soil | copier cartridges | fluorescent bulbs |
| glass | magazines | metal |
| motor oil | newspapers | pallets |
| paper | parking stubs | plastic bottles |
| polystyrene plastic | scrap metals | scrap wire |
| scrap wood | shrink wrap | stretch film |
| tea bags | wood dunnage | yard waste |
All the recycling companies we work with are licensed by the Environmental Protection Agency and/or the appropriate state regulatory agency and have air quality permits from the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
The scales show our progress. In 2001, the Seaport Division collected more than 11.9 tons of material for recycling, including nearly 81,000 gallons of oil and gasoline.
Sea-Tac Airport increased recycling tonnage by 380% in the last year, decreasing the tonnage sent to landfill by 30%.
In 1995, the Airport used nearly 37 tons of hazardous waste a year; today we use about three-and-a-half tons, or a reduction of almost 90%.
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