Reduce USPS lean of green teams, energy, water, waste

Sustainability initiatives from the USPS include free eco-friendly packaging for postal customers.

Lean Green team of postal services, energy, saving the Agency helped more than $5 million to reduce water, solid waste disposal sites and petroleum fuel use, in 2010. The postal service-recycle more than 222,000 tonnes of material helped environmental policies – an increase of almost 8,000 tonnes as compared to the previous year $13 million generated revenue and save an additional $9.1 million in landfill fees.

"Across the country, postal employees in more than 80 cross-functional lean green teams are involved, producing significant results in energy reduction and resource conservation," said Emil Dzuray, Chief Sustainability Officer active.

Lean green teams rely on the postal service's efforts to create a culture of conservation and its long history of environmental and socially responsible leadership. The teams are helping mesh cost and no-cost sustainable practices with performance management systems, the postal service apply to help the following reduction goals by 2015:

Facility energy use 30 Percentwater use 10 Percentpetroleum fuel use 20 Percentlandfill waste 50 percent.

The postal service is Dzuray on the way to achieve these goals, and plans to provide lean green teams nationwide by 2012.

"With nearly 32,000 facilities, a presence in every community and the largest civilian fleet in the nation, we know how important are our efforts to make positive impact on the environment" Dzuray added. "Our employee green teams are an important part to reduce our carbon footprint and building a culture of conservation."

As part of its green efforts buys the postal service sustainable materials and consumables is you reduce buys. The Agency developed a first "buy green" politics more than 12 years ago and has a goal to reduce expenditure on consumables 30 percent by 2020. 16 Percent over the previous year was reduced its consumables expenditure in 2009. In addition, the postal service is to increase the percentage of environmentally friendly products, it buys by 50 percent by 2015. These are products that have organic based, eco labeled recycled content, and are more efficient energy and water.

The postal service is the only mailing-and shipping companies in the world, for shipping supplies and products cradle to cradle-CertificationCM, what means, with materials developed for human health and the environment are sure Porto have earned. The Agency has won more than 75 environmental awards, including 40 of White House closing protection agency WasteWise circle, 10 environmental partner of the year climate action champion, direct marketing Association Green echo and the postal technology international environmental achievement of the year.

For more information about the lean green teams or the U.S. postal service other sustainability initiatives, please visit usps.com / green's.