SACRAMENTO – Governor Schwarzenegger announced that Spencer Brown, founder of Rent-a-Green Box of Costa Mesa has won the 2008 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in the category of Technological and Market Innovation for his Earth friendly, rentable, reusable and recycled moving box called The RecoPack [recycled ecological packing solution]. RecoPacks are made from 100% recycled, post consumer plastic bottles that are diverted from landfills and waste recovery facilities. RecoPacks are the replacement for using new and used cardboard boxes when moving that save relocating businesses and residents time, money and Earth.
GEELA is California's highest and most prestigious environmental honor. The award program recognizes individuals, organizations and businesses that have demonstrated exceptional leadership for voluntary achievements in conserving California’s resources, protecting and enhancing the environment, and building public-private partnerships.
“This honor recognizes Rent-a-Green Box’s commitment to developing socially responsible and environmentally friendly practices that promote environmental protection and economic growth,” said Governor Schwarzenegger. “Spencer Brown has made an impressive commitment to our families and communities to protect our valuable natural resources and environment for generations to come with his amazing product line made from recycled trash. It’s incredible that it’s all made from trash.”
Rent-a-Green Box.com is the first, comprehensive, zero-waste pack and move solution in America. Founded in Orange County in 2005, Spencer Brown, a local Orange County resident and eco-entrepreneur is converting massive quantities of post consumer trash diverted from local landfills into a suite of sustainable, cradle to cradle, zero-waste packing and moving products. Applying his patent pending, NANO technology to hard to recycle plastic trash, Brown converts all of those colorful plastic bottles found under your kitchen sink and laundry room into a series of 3 durable, rentable and reusable moving boxes called Recopacks [recycled ecological packing solution]. They’re the replacement for using new and used cardboard boxes when moving that save relocating businesses and residents time, money and Earth. To date, Brown has created over nine other Earth friendly packing and moving products made from 100% recycled post consumer trash.
For every 100 Recopacks rented, Rent-a-Green Box removes over 500 pounds of hard to recycle plastic trash from our landfills, prevents over 350 pounds of packing and moving waste entering our landfills, reduces fuel consumption by 50 gallons, saves 300 gallons of water, eliminates over 2,500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions from entering our atmosphere and saves 3 green trees from being converted into limited use, disposable cardboard boxes that ultimately end up dumped in our landfills. “From forest to factory and from distribution centers to our dumps- cutting down a tree to make a cardboard box that’s used once, maybe twice just to toss it in a landfill, is really bad for our planet” claims Brown. “It’s just a tremendous waste of our limited natural resources, valuable energy and costly labor to make these cardboard boxes when we have a better solution to change the way we pack and move. Let’s use our plastic trash to re-invent the cardboard moving box!”
Brown says, “By using our hard to recycle plastic trash to make a sustainable, zero-waste, rentable and reusable moving box; it’s detox for our landfills, providing an authentic and affordable green alternative, creating local jobs and a new profitable industry without trashing our planet. We’re delivering environmental consciousness in a box and when you think about it, without trees, we’re all fish out of water.”
Brown states “The Recopack is just a better product to pack and move your property. It saves the consumer time, money and Earth. It’s guilt free moving and it makes the most sense to use our trash to re-invent the cardboard moving box, because we’re running out of natural resources, as well as space to put all this trash we generate. The Recopack solves a lot of environmental problems and gives relocating businesses and consumer’s, the first authentic green choice when packing and moving in over 230 years.”
Awarded GEELA recipients are chosen in eight different categories based on their strength in eight specific areas including results, transferability, environmental impact, resource conservation, economic progress, innovation and uniqueness, pollution prevention, and environmental justice.
Spencer Brown, founder of Rent-a-Green Box, won the GEELA award for Technological and Market Innovation. He is one of only 21 other recipients that will accept awards at tonight’s ceremony in Sacramento.
The Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Awards program was established in 1993. The award program is administered by the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Resources Agency in collaboration with the State and Consumer Services Agency, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
Go to www.rentagreenbox.com for more information about Spencer Brown, The Recopack and America’s first, zero-waste pack and move solution. For more information on GEELA and this year's award recipients, visit the Cal/EPA Web site:
http://www.calepa.ca.gov/
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