2000 – Texas Parks and Wildlife
–Galveston State Park Dune Restoration Project – selected participant
1999 –Coastal America Partnership
Award for Environmental Excellence – Clear Creek Wetland Restoration
Project
1997 - Governor’s Environmental
Excellence Award – Finalist Public and Private Partnerships solving
regional solid waste issues
1996 – Texas Governor’s
Environmental Excellence Award – Finalist WRS and DOW were recognized
for the success of BCRC’s Household Hazardous Material Day
1995 – Texas Corporate Recycling
Council’s Environmental Vision Award - Most Innovative Processor in
Texas
1995 – Houston Corporate Recycling
Council’s – Award of Distinction & Community Relations Award –
BCRC & Brazoria County Coalition
1995 – Texas Governor’s
Environmental Excellence Award – Finalist Waste Minimization and
Recycling
1995 – Contest Winner For Best
Overall Waste Vehicle Design – “Paper Pig”
1995 – Clean Houston 2000 Partner
– Certificate from Houston Mayor Bob Lanier for WRS’s Waste
Minimization Efforts
1994 – 10th Annual Mayor’s Proud
Partners Award – Distinguished Service Award WRS received a Certificate
of Appreciation from Houston Mayor Bob Lanier Pioneering Innovative
Recycling For Municipalities
1994 – Keep Texas Beautiful
Distinguished Community Leadership Award
1994 – Houston Corporate Recycling
Council’s Environmental Excellence Award Finalist – Establishing
the 1st Material Recovery Facility in Texas
1994 – Certificate of Appreciation
from Houston’s Mayor Bob Lanier Sponsored the City of Houston’s 1st
Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day
1994 – Entrepreneur of the Year -
Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine, Merrill Lynch – Bill Winters
recognized as Finalist
1993 – Weyerhaeuser Paper’s
#1 Quality Supplier Award
1993 – INC 500 – WRS ranked #83
- INC Magazine’s Ranking of the Fastest Growing Private Companies
in America
1992 – INC 500 – WRS ranked #152
– INC Magazine’s Ranking of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in
America
1992 – Entrepreneur of the Year
– Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine, Merrill Lynch – Bill Winters
recognized as Finalist
1992 – Houston 100 – WRS ranked
again in Houston’s Fastest Growing Privately Owned Companies
1991 – Houston 100 – WRS ranked
#14 in Houston’s Fasted Growing Privately Owned Companies
1991 – Seventh Annual Mayor’s
Proud Partners Award Honorable Mention – “Don’t Trash Texas”
Educational Campaign Certificate of Appreciation from Houston Mayor
Kathryn Whitmire
