Environmental Impact

adaptive and restorative

With COVID-19, 99% of the workforce was working from home from late March through July 2020, and a limited number of Colleagues were physically in the office for the remainder of the year. This saved an untold amount of energy costs in maintaining the building as well as telecommuting cost savings and reduced travel for our field staff through the year. Colleagues transitioned to largely paperless processes with so many working from home daily, some with a new set of co-workers!

reduce, reuse & recycle

Recycling bins are available in every break area on every floor and in our dining areas throughout the Company to help Colleagues recycle paper, cardboard, plastic and aluminum.
Colleagues are printing double-sided when paper is necessary. Mobile print also is in use to reduce duplicated printing and other printing errors to save paper. This has resulted in 21% of pages (114,174 pages) not being printed that were sent to a printer in error.
Each floor throughout our building is equipped with a water fountain designed to refill bottles.
The building’s HVAC equipment has been updated to be more environmentally friendly, and lighting throughout the building uses motion-sensored LED fixtures in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint.

AF PRESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Our onsite print shop uses paper that comes from mills that receive their wood from sources that practice responsible forestry management, and when possible, the paper also includes recycled materials.
The equipment does not require solvents or other harmful chemicals that are commonly used for cleaning; an alcohol-based solution is used.
A device perforates and crunches used cardboard boxes, creating a void fill material, which is used for packaging instead of plastic air pillows, when possible.
A just-in-time business model is in place for production printing, which eliminates the need for departmental storage rooms across the Company. Documents are printed as needed, which has reduced corporate document storage needs from about 3,000 square feet to 400.

Environmental impact

adaptive and restorative

AF PRESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES