National Environmental Performance Track

Performance Track is a voluntary partnership that recognizes top environmental performance among participating U.S. facilities of all types, sizes, and complexity, public and private. Program partners are providing leadership in many areas, including preventing pollution at its source. The benefits of becoming a Performance Track member include awards and other forms of public recognition, networking opportunities, and news visibility.

The goal of Performance Track is to recognize and encourage top environmental performance among private and public facilities, which go beyond compliance with regulatory requirements to achieve environmental excellence.

- The program currently has 351 members in 46 states and Puerto Rico.
- To date, Performance Track members report that they have collectively reduced their water use by more than 1.3 billion gallons -- enough to meet the water needs of New York City's 8 million inhabitants for a day.
- Members report that they have cut their generation of solid waste by nearly 600,000 tons, and have decreased their energy use by more than 8.4 trillion British Thermal Units (BTUs), enough to power more than 80,600 homes for a year.
- In 2003 alone, Performance Track members report that they collectively reduced their energy use by 5.3 trillion BTUs, water use by 566.3 million gallons, and solid waste by nearly 300,000 tons.