Aluminum-can Recycling Program

Summary

Smithsonian's pilot aluminum-can recycling program started early in February 1990. Forty-four containers like the one pictured were placed at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Air and Space Museum, and the Museum Support Center. Getting into the spirit, from left, Captain Ted Holmes, D.C. Fire Department; John Roberts, Office of Plant Services Audio-visual Branch, who suggested the idea; NMAH Building Manager Richard Day; NMNH Assistant to the Deputy Director Jerry Conlon; Bill Ivy, NMNH Exhibits Department production chief; and Ombudsman Chandra Heilman, who steered the idea to its conclusion.

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in Torch, February 1990

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder February 1990

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1989

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Recycling (Waste, etc)
• Recycling Program
• Ecology
• Holmes, Ted
• Roberts, John
• Conlon, Jerome A
• Ivy, Bill
• Heilman, Chandra
• Day, Richard

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

89-21916-8

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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