BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (Nov. 6, 2008)—BFS Retail & Commercial Operations L.L.C. was honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for recycling more than 319,000 pounds of lead from lead wheel weights in 2007.
BFS Retail, a member of the EPA's National Partnership for Environmental Priorities program, received the honor at the WasteWise & NPEP Conference.
In addition the firm launched a nationwide environmental initiative this year to install nontoxic steel wheel weights instead of lead weights in its customers' vehicles.