Our company’s Sustainability Committee has helped us to achieve these environmental milestones, and to keep Monroe Litho focused on internal sustainability initiatives. Our list has more than 50 accomplishments and current projects, including:
Converted an old parking lot into 8,400 square feet of green space
In keeping with the guidelines of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership Certification, we
thought it appropriate to share some of our good stories from 2009 with our stakeholders.
Monroe Litho continued as a company offsetting 100% of electricity use with Wind Power, maintained its Forest Stewardship Council and Sustainable Forestry Initiative Certifications, as well as its federal OSHA/New York
State “SHARP” [Safety Health Award Recognition Program] certification, a program that exempts
the company from any OSHA inspection for a two year period.
Here are the highlights of twenty measurable sustainability initiatives from 2009:
- Electricity consumption was reduced by 15%.
- 570 tons of FSC paper processed.
- VOC emissions were reduced by 11.5% [normalized].
- There has been only one accident in 569,000 hours worked over four years.
- 13,000 pounds of non-conforming wooden skids recycled
- 4000 pounds of cardboard/corrugation recycled
- 7700 pounds of plastic strapping/wrapping materials recycled
- 475 pounds of CD jewel cases recycled
- 200 pounds of CDs recycled
- 375 pounds of fluorescent light bulbs recycled
- 12,000 pounds of aluminum printing plates recycled
- 2700 pounds of IT related equipment recycled
- 650 pounds of consumer batteries recycled
- 21 cell phones recycled
- 2100 pounds of metal ink cans recycled
- 17,000 pounds of scrap steel recycled
- 52 offset blankets recycled for other uses
- Water consumption was reduced by 16.9%
- Landfill dumpster activity reduced from 5 trips in 2008 to 2 trips in 2009
- There has been over 1,250,000 pounds of paper recycled/recovered