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ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

Texas Team Goes Above and Beyond
to Minimize Environmental Impact

Working in a part of town not served by the city’s waste St. Clair and Terminal Coordinator Bret Freudenberg now
management department, employees at the Katy Cement make regular visits to the recycling center, carrying two
Terminal in Texas have taken it upon themselves to make pickup trucks’ worth of bottles each time. St. Clair
sure their plastic bottles are disposed of properly. estimated the team has recycled more than 15,000 bottles
since the program began.
Elrick St. Clair, the terminal’s manager, says the team
typically goes through 1,500 bottles of water and sports
drinks each month to battle dehydration under the
blistering Texas sun. “These bottles also allow us to
be efficient because they allow
“The use of bottled water is very important to keep us
hydrated,” St. Clair said. “These bottles also allow us to be our employees to have fluids
efficient because they allow our employees to have fluids close to their work areas.”
close to their work areas.”

As the city of Katy was not able to assist in establishing a
recycling program, the employees started their own by
locating a nearby recycling center and creating a recycling
area on the terminal grounds.

The team at the Katy Cement Terminal started
its own recycling program after learning
their site was located outside of the city’s pickup zone

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