Sustainability Efforts

We continue to make changes to our operations, no matter how small, in an effort to decrease our carbon footprint. Here are some actions we have taken so far to become more eco-friendly:

• Provide reusable items to employees, such as trash and recycle bags for vehicles, grocery bags and water bottles.
• Offer reusable water bottles, tumblers and cups to visitors.
• Send recyclable materials to Waste Management for recycling.
• Provide a portable, filtered water dispenser, Water on Wheels, at community events.
• Bills, letterhead and envelopes are printed on post-consumer waste paper.
• Display “Please consider recycling this bill” on bills.
• We offer electronic forms that save on paper, envelopes and postage.
• Use hand towels in bathrooms and kitchens for drying hands and cleaning to reduce paper towel usage.
• Use reusable serving ware and silverware more frequently in the offices instead of disposable products for takeout and catered meals.
• Began to donate annually to the Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign, which is a major forest restoration effort with a goal of planting a billion trees across the planet. You can learn more about it on their website. Trees provide so many benefits to our everyday lives. They filter clean air, provide fresh drinking water, help curb climate change, and create homes for thousands of species of plants and animals.