Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority's Gone Green
“CURBY” has arrived at BNA
Nashville, TN. (April 25, 2007) On the heels of Earth Day and in an effort to become both cleaner and greener, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA), in cooperation with Metro’s Public Works Curbside Recycling Program, recently welcomed the arrival of “Curby” to the environmentally conscious Nashville International Airport (BNA). Since partnering with the program only a few weeks ago, MNAA has now recycled over 15,000 pounds of cardboard and filled 14 Curby containers to the brim with newspapers, magazines, architectural prints and office paper.
Eight silver recycling receptacles, sprinkled strategically throughout BNA’s concourses A, B and C, are hungry for traveling passengers’ newspapers and magazines, routinely left in gate areas and previously disposed of conventionally by janitorial personnel.
Also keen to the green scene, MNAA’s over 300 employees and BNA’s 16 airlines are actively taking part in the recycling opportunity extended by MNAA. All have eagerly embraced Curby conservation, with carts provided to allow ecofriendly disposal of any type of dry paper goods, in lieu of tossing into the traditional trash.
Metro Public Works and MNAA have developed a weekly schedule for Curby pick-up and each receptacle will be emptied every Tuesday and taken to the Rivergate Recycling Facility, where materials are sorted. Once sorted, recyclables evolve into everyday materials. Newspapers for example, are transformed into egg cartons, cereal boxes and insulation material, among other things. White paper is recycled into copier, office or school paper.
“One of our core values is Enterprising, said Raul Regalado,” President & CEO of the MNAA. “What better way to emphasize our customer focus, innovation and financial efficiency, than to partner with Music City’s notable recycling program and become Curby cognizant, ensuring the Authority’s and BNA’s continued beautification for our over 10 million passengers, employees and guests.”
The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority was established in 1970 and owns and operates the Nashville International and John C. Tune General Aviation Airports.
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