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All lighting has been changed to compact and standard
fluorescent bulbs.
• Heating is never over 68 degrees. Turned
off at night and on weekends.
• Air conditioning is never lower than 72
degrees and used only in 400 sq ft office area.
Turned off at night and on weekends.
• Shop area is cooled using portable evaporative
cooler. Turned off at night and on weekends.
• Fuel efficient company vehicle, 06 Toyota
SCION xB (30 plus in town 37 Hwy)
• All toner cartridges recycled, only remanufactured
are purchased.
• All ink cartridges refilled at local
vendor.
• All office and shipping computers are turned
off at night never left on standby.
• Online marketing used over printed flyers,
brochures or catalogs
(we can send you pdf files by email in seconds
rather that using the mail.)
• Invoices can be emailed in PDF file format
to save time and costs of mailing, plus fuel used
to get there.
Many of our distributors use this feature.
• All packaging materials are recycled (we
stopped buying packing peanuts over 2 years ago
and have used
recycled bubble wrap that one of our
neighbors used to throw out.
We also flatten and save all incoming boxes
saving 90 percent of the previous years costs in
purchasing boxes.)
• All metal shelving in our shop was either
purchased used or picked up for free.
These items would have ended up in landfills
or scrap yards.
• Our workbenches were given to us by a neighbor,
also saving landfill space.
• For 20 years we purchased reconditioned
5-gallon beverage tanks and have given them new
life as high quality
tank sprayer, which can last another 20 to
30 years. These stainless steel tanks would other
wise have ended up
in scrap yards. Over the years this has allowed
the re-use of literally thousands of tanks, which
benefits us all.
