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Cargill Steel is involved in community projects in all locations in which it operates, donating time, volunteers, and visibility to a variety of needs. Many of these endeavors focus on environmental needs. Here’s a small sample of the work that we’ve done:
Along the upper Mississippi River, Iowa and Minnesota -- Crews from Cargill Steel partnered with Chad Pegracke, 2002 Recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award, and his Mississippi River Beautification and Restoration Project. Tackling three different sections of the mighty Mississip’ over two summers, dirty, sweaty and hard-working Cargill Steel crews collected tires, refrigerators plastic bottles, abandoned boats, wire, shoes and every other type of refuse imaginable – even a late 1950s Chevrolet. In Minnesota, each volunteer collected an average of 135 pounds of trash. More than 36% of the materials collected were recycled. The non-recyclable material was palletized and burned for electricity by the local utility.
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Delta, Ohio -- Fourth and fifth graders have no shortage of imagination – imagination that was nurtured by the opportunity to learn about wetaldns ecology from the group up. For more than a year, they worked side by side with staff from North Star’s joint venture with BHP Steel plant in Delta, Ohio and biologists from Lockwood Greene to create a 7.8 acre wetland on company property. The 106 students who participated in the project received the 1998 Presidential Environmental Youth Award for their efforts. With its parent corporation community partnerships program, Cargill committed more than $175,000 to the project.
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