New York’s SoHo Partnership Taps Perf Go Green to Clean City Streets
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Company Partners with Nationally Recognized Charity to Green Lower Manhattan
Perf Go Green Holdings, Inc. (“Perf Go Green”) (OTCBB: PGOG, www.perfgogreen.com), a marketer and distributor of biodegradable plastics, announced today that its new commercial 45 Gallon Garbage Bags have been purchased for use by SoHo Partnership, a privately funded organization that works to keep the neighborhood clean, as part the not-for-profit’s larger initiative to “green” the Manhattan community.
SoHo Partnership hires the homeless to clean a 30-block area in downtown New York City on a daily basis. In addition to the street cleaning, programs have grown to include tree planting and maintenance, recycling, and special service requests from the community. These programs demonstrate the concern for environmental issues that are part of a local New York City agenda.
“As one of the most vibrant and progressive areas of New York City, the residents of SoHo as well as the SoHo Partnership are extremely aware of the need to support and adopt eco-friendly practices,” said Henry Buhl, Founder of the SoHo Partnership. “The men and women of our organization are responsible for keeping the district clean, removing 15,000 pounds of refuse from the area everyday. Now, with Perf Go Green’s products, the tens of thousands of conventional plastic garbage bags we once used will be a thing of the past. We are absolutely delighted to announce SoHo as the city’s first neighborhood to use biodegradable trash bags.”
“As the SoHo Partnership brings their initiative ‘green,’ we could not be prouder to have Perf Go Green a part of this conversion,” said Perf Go Green Chairman and CEO Tony Tracy. ”The SoHo Partnership is a deeply rooted New York City organization and our new supply agreement with them is part of our larger effort to convert cities and other municipal organizations to biodegradable plastic products.”
SoHo Partnership’s adoption of Perf Go Green points to a larger trend among eco-conscious communities across the country, as it comes shortly after the announcement that the Community Economic Development Association of Cook County (CEDA) in Illinois has embraced Perf Go Green’s trash bags in an effort to “green” their community.
Perf Go Green products are made of recycled plastics that are combined with an Oxo-Biodegradable proprietary application method to produce the film for the bags. When discarded in soil and exposed to the presence of microorganisms, moisture and oxygen, Perf Go Green products biodegrade, decomposing into simple materials found in nature much faster than regular plastics, which can take hundreds of years to break down. Through this process and the use of recycled plastics, the company effectively removes plastic waste from the environment.
Founded in November 2007, Perf Go Green premiered at the March 2008 International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago, where its products received an honor for their design quality and innovation. In addition to offering its products online at www.Amazon.com and www.Drugstore.com, Perf Go Green is rolling out its first items in nationwide chain stores, including Walgreen’s, later this year.
A not-for-profit organization, SoHo Partnership provides prevocational training and employment opportunities to homeless and jobless individuals through community-improvement projects. Program employees are selected from clients of BRC Human Services Corporation, a New York City organization that offers rehabilitation on treatment programs for the homeless, including substance-abuse treatment, housing for the disabled, and housing for people with AIDS.
About Perf Go Green
Perf Go Green, Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: PGOG), www.perfgogreen.com, is a New York-based biodegradable plastics company. The corporate name reflects the “Go Green” mission from inception to create a Green company for the development of eco-friendly, non-toxic, food contact compliant, biodegradable plastic products as a practical and viable solution to eliminating plastic waste from the world environment.
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