Item No. 7a supp
Meeting Date: September 22, 2020
2019 Environmental Excellence
and Fly Quiet Awards
Elizabeth Leavitt
Environment and Sustainability Center of Expertise
September 22, 2020

2019 Award Program
Awards for tenants and businesses supporting Port
Environmental Goals since 2010
Recognize environmental accomplishments of local Aviation &
Maritime industry
Recognize airline noise reduction efforts
Opportunities for small businesses
Winners determined by staff with Senior Management
concurrence

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Maritime Environmental Excellence Awards
Environmental Performance: SSA Marine
For voluntary installing LED lighting upgrades
at Terminal 18, making use of Seattle City Light
incentives
Achieved 65% energy reduction while improving
lighting quality, improving worker safety, and
reducing off-site light impacts on residential
communities and natural habitats
Invested in state-of-the-art system to gain longer-
term benefits and more efficient maintenance and
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Maritime Environmental Excellence Awards
Environmental Education & Outreach: Dirt
Corps LLC
For supporting Port environmental, equity, and
environmental justice goals through education
and outreach programs for adults, youth, and
minorities
Implemented a pilot program to teach shoreline
restoration skills along the Duwamish River and Elliot
Bay to over 80 youth and adults
Trained youth and adults in leadership, aquatic
horticulture, shoreline restoration, salmon habitat
and restoration, and environmental justice

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Maritime Small Business Recognition
Environmental Education & Outreach:
Orcasound Hydrophone Network
A small non-profit organization, for convening
13 member organizations in the Puget Sound
region to deploy hydrophones and document
orca sounds
Data advances understanding of the stresses of
underwater noise to Southern Resident Killer
Whales and is shared with the public to learn about
orca populations and noise impacts
Their role has helped to consolidate the impacts of
other small organizations that track Orca sounds
and noise impacts upon them

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Maritime Honorable Mentions
Environmental Performance: Norwegian
Cruise Line Holdings
For instituting a wide-ranging environmental
program that includes waste reduction and
voluntarily conducting underwater sound
surveys for cruise vessels that visit Puget Sound
Environmental Education & Outreach: Just
Health Action
For conducting a community-based
participatory action program that combines
environmental and human health principles
and directly engages Duwamish Valley
community members

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Aviation Environmental Excellence Awards
Environmental Performance: Alaska Airlines
For voluntary LED lighting upgrades at airport
maintenance hangars and waste reduction
Reduced hangar energy consumption 1M kWh (70%
cut), cut ghg emissions 11 tons, and lowered energy
utility costs $60,000/yr.
Leveraged BPA/Port energy incentive rebate to
offset project costs 33%
Eliminated 22 million plastic straws & stir sticks from
inflight beverage service
#FILLBEFOREYOUFLY campaign promoted reusable
bottles in partnership with Bonneville Environmental
Foundation
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Aviation Environmental Excellence Awards
Environmental Performance: HMSHost
For extensive donations of restaurant food,
equipment, and furniture, and waste reduction
Donated 7,594 meals to local food bank
Donated surplus equipment & materials to Habitat
for Humanity, Highline Schools Foundation, and local
small businesses
Recycled ~10,000 lbs. of metal restaurant equipment
Reduced waste by converting to reusable plates at
Re'Lish and Dungeness Bay restaurants
Partnered Starbucks to pilot strawless lids and
shifted to on-request only straws

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Aviation Small Business Recognition
Environmental Performance: Whidbey
SeaTac Shuttle
A small and veteran owned business, for
converting fleet to alternative fuel, using high
performance tires, and recycling waste
Converted remaining three vehicles from gasoline to
propane, cutting ghg emissions by 164 tons
Used silica-based tires to improve fuel economy and
extend tire lifespan
Recycled ~50 lbs./wk. through passenger and
employee recycling programs

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Aviation Small Business Recognition
Environmental Performance: Seattle
Chocolate
A small and woman owned business, for
reducing supply waste, donating to local food
banks, and using compostable packaging
Reusable boxes reduced airport supply shipment
waste by 80% or 3,192 cardboard boxes
Donated 54,822 fresh food servings to food banks
through socially responsible Pink Umbrella Fund
Improved product packaging recoverability with
certified compostable film wraps for 7.2 million
truffle chocolates
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2019 Fly Quiet Awards



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Southwest Airlines
Competed with the 5 busiest
airlines at SEA to win their
award
Consistently quieter noise levels
than their competitors
Good success flying noise
abatement procedures
Fleet of modern Boeing 737s

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SkyWest Airlines
Competed with regional jet
airlines for their award
Operates the quiet Embraer
E175 on behalf of Delta, Alaska
and United at SEA
Very low noise levels
Good success flying the noise
abatement procedures

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Frontier Airlines
Competed with jet airlines with
at least 1,000 annual
operations at SEA
Operates the newest versions
of the Airbus A320 family
Remarkably low noise levels
Great success flying the noise
abatement procedures

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