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TRC | 2017 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT SUCCESS IN OUR OFFICES KANSAS CITY RECYCLES GLASS As part of our annual Earth Day initiative, our Kansas City office committed to increasing their landfill diversion rate and expanding their recycling stream by working with Ripple Glass. The office is now using a purple recycling bin utilized just for glass, which can be dropped off at any of the 100 locations within the city. Ripple Glass utilizes a local processing plant and partners with local businesses to recycle the glass into fiber insulation. This effort saves energy, decreases emissions, and diverts perfectly good glass from landfills. PAPER REDUCTION IN HR An example of our efforts to reduce paper use lies in our human resources department. The department has gone completely paperless with materials sent out to new hires regarding job offers, on-boarding, and benefits, as well as with our Open Enrollment process for benefits to current employees. Ten years ago we launched the first paperless Open Enrollment process for benefits, and we are now completely paperless. We also moved our total benefits award statement online instead of sending paper statements in the mail. LESS MILES MEANS MORE SUSTAINABILITY AT AIR MEASUREMENTS IN GAINESVILLE Field work in Air Measurements usually means driving 10 to 20 thousand pound of vehicles and equipment to a client’s facility. In Gainesville Florida, test projects tend to be short and involve more miles per dollar of revenue. Project Manager Dustin Banks goes to great lengths to minimize the impact of travel by grouping multiple projects into a single trip. Sometimes this means traveling on Sunday to maximize the time available for testing during the work week. “Coordinating my projects this way, I am able to provide competitive pricing to clients while minimizing the environmental impact of our travel,” explains Banks. Every test bundled saves: ■ ■ 5000 miles of tire wear (500 miles x 10 tires), and the associated particulate pollution ■ ■ 500 miles of truck and trailer mechanical life ■ ■ 50 gallons of diesel fuel ■ ■ 1 gallon of diesel exhaust fluid ■ ■ 200 grams of NOx tailpipe emissions ■ ■ 10 grams of particulate tailpipe emissions LOWELL LIGHTING CHANGE OFFICE SPACE PLANNING Our office in Lowell worked with the property management and National Grid to perform an audit on the office lighting. Roughly 150 employees work in our Lowell office, which occupies three floors of the building. The results of the energy audit showed an estimated savings of over 34,000 kWh by switching to all LED lighting. This equates to 37,923 pounds of CO2 avoided annually. With a savings of almost $5,000 annually, the payback period for the upgrade is less than 2 years. We have initiatives to reduce unnecessary office space. A 60,000 sq ft reduction in FY17 equates to: 30 ■ ■ 500,000 kWh reduction ■ ■ 372 MT CO2e annual emissions reduction ■ ■ and the equivalent of removing approximately 80 passenger vehicles from the road