Warren Depot's Excess Cardboard Recycled to California
27 October 2003 - 5:12PM
PR Newswire (US)
Warren Depot's Excess Cardboard Recycled to California FORT
BELVOIR, Va., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 40,000 pounds
of excess cardboard from the Warren Depot, Warren, Ohio, has a new
home in California with the help of three Defense Logistics Agency
organizations. The depot is one of 45 Defense National Stockpile
Center facilities. Jack Pittano, depot manager, decided that the
cardboard, formerly stocked and used for packing certain
commodities for shipment, could now be recycled because it was no
longer required. His decision to offer the material through the
Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office, Columbus, Ohio,
resulted in significant savings for a law enforcement agency.
Additional savings were realized by leaving the property in place
so that it could be shipped directly to its new owner, rather than
transferring it to Columbus first. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department acquired the cardboard with approval of DLA's Law
Enforcement Support Office. The sheriff's department, with the
assistance of inmates, is using the cardboard to create silhouette
targets for weapons training. According to Pittano, a sheriff's
department representative advised that the department is seeing
significant cost avoidance because the targets were formerly bought
from commercial sources. The icing on the cake is that the
cardboard is recycled again, after weapons training activity by
more than 9,000 police officers has taken its toll. DNSC was
created after World War II with the mission of acquiring and
storing strategic and critical materials for national defense
purposes. The stockpile ensured less dependence on foreign supply
sources in the event of a national emergency. The stockpiled
materials include industry grade materials, many of which are
required to make steel. Most of DNSC's materials have now been
declared excess and are being sold. At Warren, that excess material
includes such commodities as cobalt, lead, tungsten and zinc. DNSC
currently has 50 commodities on hand, valued at $1.7 billion on the
current market. The DRMO facilities are field activities of the
Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, which disposes of
excess property received from the military services such as the
cardboard turned in by Pittano. The inventory changes daily and
includes thousands of items: from air conditioners to vehicles,
clothing to computers, and much more. Property is first offered for
reutilization within the Department of Defense, transfer to other
federal agencies or donation to state and local governments and
other qualified organizations. Reutilization means big savings. In
fiscal 2002, $1.2 billion worth of property was reutilized. Every
dollar of property reutilized is a tax dollar saved. The LESO
provides excess DOD equipment to federal and state law enforcement
agencies. More than 17,000 law enforcement agencies are able to
receive property through LESO, increasing the quality and quantity
of equipment law enforcement personnel have to carry out their
duties. DNSC, DRMS and LESO are all part of the Defense Logistics
Agency, which provides supply support, and technical and logistics
services to the U.S. military services and several federal civilian
agencies. Headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Va., the agency is the one
source for nearly every consumable item, whether for combat
readiness, emergency preparedness or day-to-day operations. All
these agencies can be accessed through DLA's Web site at
http://www.dla.army.mil/. DATASOURCE: Defense Logistics Agency
CONTACT: Marcia Klein of Defense Logistics Agency, +1-703-767-5064,
or Web site: http://www.dla.mil/
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