Royal GreenCorp., a Berks County-based metal recovery company used a state Small Business Pollution Prevention Assistance Account (PPAA) loan to install equipment that has not only paid for itself in cost savings in two years, but also eliminated tons of waste.

Royal Green used the loan to install a new eddy current separator that helped the company to extract/recover metal from its waste stream. The new system has helped the company save money by eliminating 435 tons of residual waste and the related waste disposal costs during the last two years. This amounted to a savings of approximately $447,000 since implementation.

The company savings have already paid for the cost of the project. This was the second time that the company has used funding from the loan program to finance a pollution prevention/energy efficiency project.

The PPAA loan program is available to any small business owner whose pollution prevention/energy efficiency project is located within Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit DEP's Pollution Prevention Assistance Account webpage or contact Gene DelVecchio at 717 772-8951 or send e-mail to: gdelvecchi@state.pa.us .

5/26/2006