You may surprised to learn that Comcast NBCUniversal has a senior director of environmental health and safety-slash-head of sustainability for its Northeast Division.

The position has to do with corporate social responsibility, or CSR — the outward-facing policies within a for-profit that demonstrate some commitment to social good, such as volunteerism, sustainability and philanthropy, writes Julie Zeglen at generocity.org.

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David Newman, the Comcast pro with the aforementioned mouthful of a title, shared some details of the company’s resource efficiency goals regarding waste production, energy usage, fuel usage and products — “four big areas where we feel like we have the biggest impact on the environment,” he said. “It means working to reduce the impact that we have on the communities where we operate and where our employees live.”

Newman’s jurisdiction in the Northeast includes everything between Maine and North Carolina and the East Coast to Ohio, including the “Freedom Region” of Philadelphia, its suburbs and New Jersey, which does some of the biggest numbers in recycling: According to Newman, in June alone, 130,000 pounds of cable — yes, 65 tons — and 14,000 pounds of metal were collected. That’s just from utility poles and the like, not even counting items from home boxes and modems.

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