March 2010
Porter Scientific received the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce 2010 Stellar Award.

August 27, 2009
Dr. Freda Porter was named the 2009 NC Minority Small Business Person Of The Year by SBA.

July 1, 2009
Dr. Freda Porter, President of PSI was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees at University of North Carolina at Pembroke

April 2009
PSI was approved as a private consulting firm by NCDOT.



2009
Porter Scientific is working toward ISO 9001:2000 certification in 2009.


May 7, 2007
Dr. Freda Porter was awarded the 2007 Business Person of the Year by UNCP's Business Visions.




May 2007
CAIHET is awarded $200,000 job training grant from the US EPA Brownfield Program



April 2007
Porter Scientific received the 2007 UIDA Business Services Indian Business of the Year Award.




PSI was accepted into NCDOT's Mentor Protégé Program where Mulkey Engineers & Consultants, Raleigh, serves as the Mentor

January 2007
Dr. Freda Porter, President of Porter Scientific, was appointed to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Board of Trustees

Porter Scientific Incorporated (PSI) provides a broad range of services that focus on environmental protection and improvement, as well as computer facility support, and infrastructure project management. Operating since 1997, PSI employs industry standard trained and certified personnel, provides modern equipment and applies innovative technologies to address compliance and technical issues for government agencies, municipalities, commercial and industrial clients.

PSI is an 8(a), HubZone, American Indian woman owned small business focused on delivering excellence in environmental protection, facility support, and water, sewer and solid waste project management.

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BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMP)

Plastic bottles, wooden pallets and oil filters have been banned from North Carolina landfills as of October 1, 2009.

State law defines a rigid plastic container as a container having a neck smaller than it’s body and accepts a screw top, snap cap, or other closure. A wooden pallet is defined as a wooden object consisting of flat or horizontal deck or platform supported by structural components that is used as a base for assembling, stacking, handling, and transporting goods. Motor oil filters are filters that removes impurities from the oil used to lubricate an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle.

BMP: Make every effort to remove these items from your waste before sending to the county landfills. Recycling in Robeson County is free with ten (10) collection sites throughout the county.

Robeson County’s twelve (12) manned collection sites throughout the county collect free of charge the following items: white goods, brown goods, lead-acid batteries, used oil, recyclable aluminum, yard waste, limbs and brush. Twice a year at five (5) collection sites pesticide containers are accepted.

BMP: To help save our environment, take all the above items to the collection site nearest you.

14 Years of Excellence through Quality Work and Client Satisfaction