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Raymour & Flanigan Green Initiatives |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
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Raymour & Flanigan Furniture, with 81 stores in North America, has diverted 16 million pounds of waste from entering landfills. The company’s CEO, Neil Goldberg, recognized their trucks were returning empty after delivery and decided to renovate one of their 41,000 square foot buildings into a recycling center. Cardboard, Styrofoam, pastics, and mixed office paper from their stores and offices are recycled to create new consumer products by other manufacturers.
Other initiatives have been implemented to reduce the company’s carbon footprint, such as controlled energy use with in-store sensors, the purchace of renewable energy credits from Juice Power, exchanging 17,000 incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, replacing showroom carpeting with carpets made of post-consumer waste material and switching computer monitors to liquid crystal display monitors.
The furniture company also installed a waste oil heating furnace in their Transportation Center with uses oil collected from its 500 vehicle fleet.
Read the full story at greenbiz.com
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