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If you do not have a recycling program in place, please consider supporting our recycling program. We are collecting used toners, cartridges, and cell phones and the money collected will help lower our administrative expenses. In 2009 when we started this initiative, we had not idea of the impact it was about to take. Our intention was to save a few dollars in helping pay for some of our annual printing services, it expanded into helping pay for standard office essentials as well. In 2009 a combined total of over $10,000.00 was saved in expensed. This was from direct cash back from turning in the empty units for cash and OfficeMax credit purchases.

This effort was noted during a CFC Conference in early 2010 as we gave a demonstration of its benefits. Since, several other area CFCs have started implementing this same initiative.

In March 2010, NETC Chief of Staff, Captain Markus Hannan, USN nominated our area to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Washington DC, Dept of CFC Operations for an Innovators Award. Even though we were not selected, we recede a personal call from Mr. Curtis Rumbaugh, OPM CFC Programs who personally congratulated us on this effort and commended us on taking on a task which reflected a positive image on the CFC program.

If your office IS NOT involved or if you are not sure, please call our office for details and to see how you too can make a difference.