Rapid Refill Announces Cascades Award Winner

EDINA, MN. January 2012 –Vice President of Operations, Rusty Hurley, awarded the first 2012 Cascades Award to Rapid Refill franchisees Bill & Trudy Whitney of McKinney, TX.  For achieving exemplary conservation results with community engagement and local partnerships they were awarded a $500 donation to be made in their name to a charity of choice.

The Whitney’s have developed a program within their community to collect all broken or unused printers. Each printer received goes through a detailed inspection and cleaning process, at times breathing new life into an otherwise unusable machine.  Repaired printers are donated to community non-profit organizations, while irreparable printers are taken to an e-waste recycler - at no cost to the customer.  Since inception of their program in 2007, they have collected an astonishing 576 printers.

“There’s nothing quite like taking a dead, old item, bringing it back to a like new condition, and donating to a non-profit,” said Bill Whitney “Recycling is just what we do.”

“The Cascades Award demonstrates our company’s greatest strengths in local conservation efforts,” Rusty Hurley said. “We are pleased to recognize the efforts of dedicated franchisees from our system that use their skills and resources to encourage community leadership through action.”

Pictured: Bill & Trudy Whitney, Rapid Refill McKinney, TX

About the Cascades Award: Rapid Refill’s embodied recognition of the company’s core value supporting leadership through being an active “Community & Environmental Ambassador”.  The Cascades Award is presented quarterly and annually.  Quarterly award winners receive a $500 donation made by Rapid Refill in their name to a local charity of choice. Quarterly award winners become finalists for the annual award, the winner to be nominated through a voting process of peer franchisees. The annual award winner receives an additional $2,500 to donate to the charity of their choice.