The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection in November honored 23 businesses and individuals with its GreenCircle awards.
The 15-year-old GreenCircle program have honored 1,050 agencies and individuals since its inception, for those who worked to improve the environment of the state and worked to build a sustainable future.
This year’s recipients are:
- Avon Public Schools for energy efficiency projects
- Harry Gibson of Bethel for his volunteer efforts at Putnam Memorial Park
- Gzen restaurant of Branford, a zero waste establishment
- Chapman Manufacturing of Durham for its new recycling program
- Environmental Office Solutions of East Hartford for its recycling work
- Horst Engineering of East Hartford for its solar system
- United Steel of East Hartford for its fuel treatment systems on trucks
- Eagle Valley Eco Fuel of Ellington for converting manure into a heat source
- Duke Moore of Falls Village for restoring a fountain in Winchester
- GreenShare Technology of Farmington for providing computers to low-income individuals
- Bull Metal Products of Middletown for reduce cardboard waste
- Charles Button of New Britain for his sustainability efforts at Central Connecticut State University
- PerkinElmer Health Sciences of Shelton for its energy conversation efforts
- NRG Energy of South Norwalk for its environmental student detective program
- Aptar for reducing electricity consumption in Torrington and Stratford
- Dave Steinmetz of Orange and Dan Kruger of Woodbridge for offering alternative to cigarette butt litter
- Bristol-Myers Squibb of Wallingford for expanding nature trails
- Coilplus of Waterbury for a single-stream recycling program
- Philson of Watertown for its annual employee river clean-up days
- Westinghouse Electric of Windsor for reducing water use
- Highland Lake Watershed Association of Winsted for acquiring properties for open space
