[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces $10, 000 Recycling Grant to the To'Nanees'Dizi Chapter on the Navajo Nation

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ADEQ Director Owens Announces $10,000 Recycling Grant to the
To'Nanees'Dizi Chapter on the Navajo Nation

PHOENIX (July 8, 2008) -Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Director Steve Owens announced today that ADEQ is awarding $10,000 to
the To'Nanees'Dizi Chapter on the Navajo Nation to fund more recycling
in Tuba City. 

"Recycling is one of our most effective tools to protect our
environment," Director Owens added. "It is especially important to
increase recycling opportunities on the Navajo Nation and throughout
Coconino County to protect natural resources and the quality of life
there.  We are very pleased to support this important effort." 

The grant will fund an expansion of the only recycling program in the
western part of the Navajo Nation. The chapter will use the funds to
begin an educational campaign to encourage recycling in Tuba City and
surrounding areas through community-wide distribution of flyers, banners
and household recycling bins. The campaign will emphasize teachings
relating to traditional Navajo concepts of harmony with the land and
nature as they relate to recycling and waste reduction.  

Coconino County is dedicating a used compactor for recycling use at the
solid waste transfer station in Tuba City.  

The grant is funded by ADEQ's Waste Reduction Initiative Through
Education program for projects that educate the citizens of Arizona
about waste reduction, recycling and composting. 

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News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov.

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