Community Benefits
- Job creation
- Improved tax base
- Improved business attraction, expansion, and retention
- Improved quality of life
- Community pride
- Reduced infrastructure development costs
Economic Benefits to Partners
- Higher profitability
- Enhanced market image, LEED certified
- Improved efficiency
- Access to financing
- Greater regulatory flexibility
- Reduction of operating costs
- Additional income from sale of by-products
- Reduction of infrastructure and disposal costs
- Reduction of transportation costs
- Reduction of environmental liability
- Improved public image
- Increased employee profitability
Environmental Benefits
- Reduced air emission and improved community health
- Reduction of surface and groundwater contamination
- Water conservation
- Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
- Promote the concept of “reduce, reuse, recycle, recover”
- Improved resource conservation
- Green technology development
- Regeneration from brown to green space