WTN Services- Green Tip Number 1-2008
WTN Services annually publishes our sustainability goals and progress measuring our impact on working conditions and the environment.
Thousands of dollars are invested annually in crafting initiatives that aid to become more enviromentally friendly including innovations in packaging, the opening of our second distribution center in Albany New York helping to decrease the carbon footprint that we would use in shipping everything from Napa, recycling of cardboard is embeded into our culture and more. In an attempt to continue to spread the word we will be publishing freindly reminders and common sense tips from our partnership with Planet Friendly.
WTN Services and our parent 1-800Flowers is concerned about the environment and our long term sustainability. Each brand has recently been empowered to create a Planet Friendly Committee to seek options to further decrease our environmental foot-print with strong imput from our team members leading the initiative. At WTN Services Napa our leader is our own Tiffany who’se full time job is administration of Human Resources and Administrative Assistance to the Executive Team. We appreciate Tiffany stepping up in a role reminding us of our accountability to our enviroment as well.
This weeks Planet Friendly Tip…
Typical business offices generate about 1.5 pounds of waste paper per employee each day.
To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
17 trees
275 pounds of sulfur
350 lbs of limestone
9,000 lbs of steam
60,000 gal of water
225 kilowatt hours
3.3 cubic yards of landfill space
Solutions:
Recycle your newspaper! If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.Always distribute documents created on the computer via emails instead of via hard copy when it is professional and acceptable to do so.Consider reading the news online instead of printed on paper
Sources: The Public Recycling Officials of Pennsylvania, Developing a Waste Reduction and Recycling Program for Commercial, Industrial and Municipal Establishments, National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth911.org