Saving Energy - Saving the Environment

We have started a new campaign at Haulotte US to stop as much unwanted, misdirected mail as humanly possible. Junk mail, or the more PC term, misdirected mail, consumes more than 100 million trees every year. According to the EPA, nearly half is discarded without having been read, or even opened. This issue was addressed in an earlier post but mostly as it pertained to personal mailings. Now we are doing something about it at the business level. The EcoLogical Mail Coalition at ecologicalmail.org is a free service for businesses to remove former employees from direct marketing mailing lists. We have coupled that with a free account with Catalog Choice to rid ourselves of unwanted mail for current and former employees as well as duplicate mailings.

Using Catalog Choice will help you keep track of the companies you have contacted and when contact was made. If you are still receiving mail from a particular company after 90 days you have the option to make contact again or file a complaint. Catalog Choice will not have every company you search for in its database, so it will be helpful to keep a spreadsheet to know who you have made contact with. I have found that if I make direct contact via a company’s website or email, I tend to get a relatively quick email response confirming that my request has been processed. Most companies have a privacy policy on their webpage which can be helpful in their specific opt out process. Read this page. It’s where a company admits to selling your name and address to third parties, or tells you it does not (but usually it does). You have the right to tell any company who handles your information not to share it with anyone.

Visit obviously.com/junkmail/ for thorough advice on how to manage your unwanted mailings. More information of everything you have read here and much more can be found there.

On Saturday June 25th, Haulotte Archbold sent seven of its employees out to US 20A to complete its 9th Adopt A Highway pickup. We have now collected 86 bags of trash and other debris from that 3 mile stretch of roadway.

Thank you to the following volunteers for their participation:  Cyndy Weber, Jim Bird, Mike Williams, Scott Merrifield, Ben Waidelich, and Ben Dockery.

These recyclables have resource and energy savings equivalent to:

• 37,626 kWh’s
• 97 barrels of oil
• 154 cubic yards of landfill space
• 241 trees

These recyclables have resource and energy savings equivalent to:

• 25,630 kWh’s
• 66 barrels of oil
• 119 cubic yards of landfill space
• 188 trees

These recyclables have resource and energy savings equivalent to:

• 15,869 kWh’s
• 41 barrels of oil
• 61 cubic yards of landfill space
• 97 trees

*This is a running total from one truck load to the next. 

On Friday April 15, Haulotte Archbold kicked off its third year partnering with the Ohio Department of Transportation on the Adopt A Highway program. Donning their bright yellow vests with their trash bags in hand, they were able to secure 10 bags of debris from 3 miles of US 20A. This brings the bag count up to 79 since the various members of the Green Team and other employees started walking the route exactly 2 years ago.

Participants in the first pickup of the roadway trash picking season were Jim Bird, Lyle Fogerty, Cyndy Weber, Cari Weidner, Josh Gawain, Dan Cendrowski and Courtney Cannady.

These recylcables have resource and energy savings equivalent to:

• 6,036 kWh’s
• 15 barrels of oil
• 27 cubic yards of landfill space
• 50 trees

After the last recycling trailer report, here are the latest numbers for Haulotte Group’s recycling efforts in 2010:

These recyclables have resource and energy savings equivalent to:

• 76,753 kWh’s
• 199 barrels of oil
• 366 cubic yards of landfill space
• 532 trees

The Adopt a Family for Christmas Fundraiser successfully raised enough money to put together 32 food boxes that will be distributed to area families.

THANK YOU to the following sponsors who helped make this a success:

Haulotte Group | BilJax
Nu-Arch Lanes
Wal-Mart
Super Value
Joe Short Insurance
B&D Photography
Nutro Inc.
Casa Vieja
Ty Otto Allstate Insurance
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Baker’s Gas & Welding Supplies
Lincoln Electric
Duramark Technologies
Triad Technologies
Morrell Inc.
D&R Fayette Hardware
Samuel Mancino’s Italian

And Special Guest Elves:

Maddy & Noah Gackenbach

These recyclables have resource and energy savings equivalent to:

Additionally, 967 pounds of miscellanious electronic waste and 472 pounds of electronic ballasts were recycled with Affinity Information Management.