7 ways to be more sustainable
Working in facility management puts you in a key position to influence your building’s environmental footprint. One effective step is sourcing lighting products from manufacturers that prioritize sustainable design, use recycled materials, reduce packaging waste, and streamline their supply chains. These choices help lower emissions and waste before the product even arrives at your dock. Without changing your processes, you can support broader sustainability goals simply by selecting vendors who align with your facility’s environmental standards.
7 ways to secure a sustainable future.
7 ways to secure a sustainable future.
Let a dedication to the environment shape what you do.
Let a dedication to the environment shape what you do.
Commit to reducing your environmental footprint by prioritizing innovative product design, thoughtful packaging, recycled materials, and an optimized supply chain.
Commit to reducing your environmental footprint by prioritizing innovative product design, thoughtful packaging, recycled materials, and an optimized supply chain.
When products make it to your receiving dock, make sure they do so in the most environmentally friendly way possible. The best part is that you don’t need to do anything other than continue to choose conscientious lighting manufacturers for your indoor and outdoor lighting needs.
When products make it to your receiving dock, make sure they do so in the most environmentally friendly way possible. The best part is that you don’t need to do anything other than continue to choose conscientious lighting manufacturers for your indoor and outdoor lighting needs.
ENGINEERED TO SAVE ENERGY
Upgrading to LED lighting is a sure way to improve energy efficiency and reduce raw material consumption. Look for manufacturers that take it one step further by designing lighting with industry-leading efficacies that help conserve valuable energy resources by reducing the amount of electricity required to power them. This, in turn, helps mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
MADE WITH LESS MATERIALS
By making fixtures that are compact and lightweight, they will require less material to produce, consume less energy to manufacture, and demand far less fuel to transport, drastically reducing greenhouse gases.
MADE WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS
Whenever possible, recycled materials should be used in new product design and replacing non-sustainable materials in existing products.
- Use recycled aluminum
- Recycle and reuse leftovers from the manufacturing process
- Use recycled Post Consumer Resin (like water bottles, CDs, and DVDs)
PRINT RESPONSIBLY
- Use wind-generated power to print
- Use 100% recycled paper
- Use UV inks (dry almost instantly and release 99.5 less VOCs)
- Reduce the size of literature to use less materials in production and require less fuel to transport.
MADE WITH BIORENEWABLE MATERIALS
One person’s waste is another’s treasure! Innovative lighting leaders have created a special mix of recycled plastic combined with crushed seashells, bamboo fiber, or coffee chaff. By engineering new products from organic, agricultural resources, we reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
SUSTAINABLY PACKAGED
- Recycled corrugated board with FSC certification
- Packaging printed with sustainable inks
- 100% recyclable paper bags replacing plastic bags
- 100% recyclable paper tape replacing plastic tape
- 100% recyclable cardboard replacing foam inserts
- Installation instructions online, not printed
SHIP
RESPONSIBLY
Ocean transport from suppliers is a less carbon-intensive method than air. On average, shipping an item by sea rather than by air reduces transportation-related emissions by 95%.
