WRP Annual Highlights 

Background: Waste Reduction Partners, a team of 41 staff and retired engineers and scientists, helps NC businesses and institutions improve environmental and energy management through on-site assessments that help save money. WRP is a NCDEQ partnership program with the Land of Sky Regional Council which has provided over 276,000 hours of field technical assistance since 2000 with 12,032 hours in FY2018.

Promoting the State’s Pollution Prevention Pays Ethic. In FY2018, the Waste Reduction Partners team provided on-site waste reductions and energy effiency assessments for 159 clients across 51 counties, helping businesses and institutions save $2.38 million. (Since 2000, the WRP program has served 2,806 organizations with on-site assistance to improve environmental performance while helping these customers achieve $137 million in accumulative utility cost savings.)

• Climate: Greenhouse Gas Reductions though Energy Efficiency: The WRP energy team delivered energy efficiency assess¬ments and management guidance to 67 businesses and organizations across the state last year. WRP engineers identified hundreds of energy conservation measures (ECMs) for these clients, documenting each in a detailed report with a cost/benefit analysis.

• WRP estimates that these clients will implement mea¬sures to save $1,882,000 per year in en-ergy utility costs, reduce energy use by 113,750 million Btu, and cut related carbon emissions by 4,528 metric tons per year. (603,733 MTCO2e accumulative reduced since 2000)
  
  
• On-site Waste Reduction Assistance: The WRP solid waste team worked with 67 entities during the year, which includ¬ed a wide range of NC manufacturers, retail, food services, local governments, schools, farms and nurseries. The on-site assistance resulted in the diversion of more than 6,743 tons from landfilling. The disposal management savings and material revenues are estimated at $269,000 for the year.
  
  
• Water Efficiency Demand-Side Management: During last year, WRP engineers completed 22 water efficiency assessments for large water customers with the City of Asheville and various water utilities in the Triangle region which helped clients achieve water efficiency savings of 6.7 million gallons per year.