What is NSA/CSS doing to protect our environment?
All we can! NSA/CSS maintains a comprehensive Environmental Management System (EMS). What that means is that we continuously strive to keep doing our mission while being good stewards of our environment. We have developed robust pollution prevention, green procurement, and recycling programs. Quick Facts: In 2007, NSA/CSS: • Sent over 1,143 tons of construction and demolition debris to be recycled; • Processed and reused 3 tons of waste oil; • Reclaimed 235 tons of precious metals from film, chips, and circuit boards; • Recycled 970 tons of computers, e-scrap and electronic test equipment; • Deposited 50 tons of glass, newspaper, aluminum cans, and plastic bottles into recycling bins throughout our campus; and, • Recycled over 900 tons of cardboard – enough to make over 5 million grocery bags. We also declassified and recycled over 2,000 tons of water-soluble paper; that paper was converted to pulp, sold to paper companies, and converted into everything from pizza boxes to wrappers. In
