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If a company’s
bottom-line decisions tend to reveal its core values, then TVA’s
procurement strategy clearly reflects the agency’s environmental
principles. In 2000, TVA bought $1.3 million worth of the recycled-content
materials specified under the affirmative-procurement provisions of
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. It spent another $2 million
on other recycled-content materials, and it donated goods valued at
more than $1 million to schools and nonprofit organizations throughout
the Tennessee Valley.
TVA’s commitment
to the responsible use of supplies and materials extends beyond its
purchasing practices to the actions of individual workers, too. At Paradise
Fossil Plant, for example, a group of TVA employees took an environmentally
sensitive approach to the task of cleaning an area where scrap wood
and old pallets were stored. Working with the plant’s Environmental
Compliance Team, the employees used a wood chipper to transform some
of the material into decorative mulch, which was spread on the facility’s
grounds. TVA also hired a wood-recycling company to remove part of the
scrap and turn it into mulch for sale to the public.
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