Tallahassee —
» Marpan Supply owner Kim Williams is opening an environmentally friendly waste recycling plant next month. Marpan Recycling will convert 500 tons per day of waste from construction sites and land clearing into cardboard, newsprint and landscaping materials.

» Tallahassee’s Water Utility Wastewater Treatment division has received certification, a first among Florida wastewater utilities, under the Environmental Management System program of the International Organization on Standardization. The program is designed to improve efficiency and raise standards in treating wastewater, which is reused by Tallahassee’s utility for irrigating animal feed crops.

Pensacola —
» The Environmental Protection Agency has started a $22-million cleanup of the Escambia Treating Co. Superfund site, clearing the way for a 26-acre commerce park. The EPA will excavate a 17-acre, 30-foot-deep cell to bury and seal 400,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil.

Tallahassee —
» Bernard F. Sliger, president of Florida State University from 1977 to 1991, died Oct. 10 at age 83 after an apparent stroke. Under the popular president’s tenure, enrollment grew by more than a third to 29,000 and the number of National Merit Scholars doubled to 150.