ATLANTA – The Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) has awarded the Pull-A-Part Indianapolis location the Indiana Clean Yard-Gold Level award for auto salvage businesses. Pull-A-Part is an award-winning family business serving the do-it-yourself, used auto parts market.
The Gold Level IDEM award is the highest certification level offered by IDEM, and achieving the Gold Level signifies that the recipient has gone beyond environmental regulations. Of 650 auto recycling operations in Indiana, only three achieved Gold status. Pull-A-Part earned the first-ever Indiana Clean Yard-Gold Level award from IDEM in 2009. The 2013 award is the third consecutive Gold Level award earned by the Pull-A-Part Indianapolis location. Each award covers two years.
Atlanta-based Pull-A-Part, LLC operates a network of 27 used auto parts superstores in 12 states. Pull-A-Part has made a concerted effort to set a high standard of excellence in handling and recycling end-of-life vehicles; its vehicles produce 21 percent less automobile shredder residue sent to a landfill as compared to typical vehicles delivered to a shredder, according to the company.
In addition to the Indiana award, Pull-A-Part has been recognized for outstanding environmental responsibility and corporate citizenship by a number of federal, state and local organizations. It is the only member of the recycling industry to be accepted into the U.S. EPA National Environmental Performance Track Program; it also received the U.S. EPA National Partnership for Environmental Priorities Achievement Award for recycling mercury switches. In September, The Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection chose Pull-A-Part as one of six recipients of the state’s 2013 Environmental Excellence Awards.
