Air Cycle Distributor Esquire Environmental Services, Inc. - Partner of the Year

2005 Businesses for the Bay Environmental Excellence Awards

Esquire Environmental Services has been awarded the Partner of the Year in recognition of the firm's outstanding commitment to promoting pollution prevention and Businesses for the Bay to DC, MD, PA, and VA companies. Esquire Environmental Services, Inc. is a female-owned, small business located in Fairfax, Virginia that provides environmental consulting services to commercial, institutional, local, state and federal government entities and has given support to the pollution prevention program of Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and Businesses for the Bay.

In the past year, Esquire Environmental's Rod Kincaid has been instrumental in encouraging commercial property management companies in the Mid-Atlantic Region to implement environmental programs, especially in the area of fluorescent lamp recycling. Nationwide, only 26% of all fluorescent lamps are recycled, potentially releasing over 10,000 pounds of mercury vapor to the environment. EPA Region III is working to encourage commercial property management companies to voluntarily commit to fluorescent lamp recycling. Esquire Environmental has persuaded 5 of the region's top commercial property management companies to make this commitment, representing more than 10 million square feet of space and thousands of fluorescent lamps to be recycled each year. In addition, seventy of these commercial properties have also joined Businesses for the Bay, directly due to the efforts of Esquire Environmental to promote the program.

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