[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces $12, 200 in Grants to Arizona Little League Teams to Promote Recycling

Wed Apr 25 12:30:19 MST 2007

ADEQ Director Owens Announces $12,200 in Grants to Arizona Little League
Teams to Promote Recycling

PHOENIX (April 25, 2007) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) Director Steve Owens today announced that ADEQ has awarded a
total of $12,200 to 23 Arizona Little League teams to promote recycling
and prevent littering at baseball fields across the state.

Under the Recycling and Litter Control Program, ADEQ is providing Little
League teams throughout Arizona with funds for banners promoting
recycling to be displayed on outfield fences and backstops at their ball
fields, and for containers for plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and other
recyclable materials at the fields.

"This project has proved itself a great way to involve young people in
recycling, promote ADEQ's recycling efforts and help keep ball fields
clean," said Owens. "Little League recycling grants are a grand slam."

ADEQ began its Little League recycling program in 2005. "This program
has been a great success," Owens said.

This season's participating Little Leagues by county are:

Cochise: Valley

Coconino: Mt. Elden

Maricopa: Diamond Back, Goodyear, Holiday Park, McDowell Mountain, Mesa
American, Royal Palm Orangewood, Tempe Guadalupe, Tempe Rio Salado,
Thunderbird, Village Meadows

Navajo: Holbrook, Pinetop-Lakeside Blue Ridge, Winslow

Pima: Altar Valley, Freedom, Los Ninos, Sunnyside, Tanque Verde

Pinal: Florence

Yavapai: Verde Valley, Bagdad

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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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