Environmental Impact

American Fidelity’s Green Team makes recommendations for environmental/ sustainability-related community involvement, Company education and initiatives. They work to educate Colleagues on ways to support sustainability at work and at home, make recommendations for Company Earth Day activities and more.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

• A battery-recycling box is available for Colleagues to deposit their household batteries and keep them out of the landfills.
• Each floor throughout the building is equipped with a water fountain designed to refill bottles.
• Each floor throughout the building has designated recycling bins. 
• The building’s HVAC equipment has been updated to be more environmentally friendly, and lighting throughout the building was converted to LED fixtures in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint.
• Our carpet floor tiles are Cradle to Cradle certified.
• Colleagues are printing double-sided when paper is necessary. Mobile print also is in use to reduce duplicated printing and other printing errors to save paper.  
• We have an EV charging station available for Colleagues to use at the office.

Our onsite grill replaced plastic and paper straws with agave straws. 

Our Purchasing department replaced styrofoam break room cups with an insulated paper option.

The Green Committee offered a panel for Colleagues to ask questions on simple ways to get started on their green journey.

In honor of Earth Day, we celebrated with a speaker on Landscaping for Wildlife, special offerings from our grill and an onsite shred truck.

Colleagues had the opportunity to learn how to have a sustainable holiday season from an expert in environmental management at OSU Cooperative Extension Services.

AF Pressing the environmental issues 

Our onsite print shop uses paper that comes from mills that receive their wood from sources that practice responsible forestry management, and when possible, the paper also includes recycled materials.

A device perforates and crunches used cardboard boxes, creating a void fill material, which is used for packaging instead of plastic air pillows, when possible.

A just-in-time business model is in place for production printing, which eliminates the need for departmental storage rooms across the Company. Documents are printed as needed, which has reduced corporate document storage needs from about 3,000 square feet to 400. 

Environmental Impact

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

AF Pressing the environmental issues

Our onsite print shop uses paper that comes from mills that receive their wood from sources that practice responsible forestry management, and when possible, the paper also includes recycled materials.

A device perforates and crunches used cardboard boxes, creating a void fill material, which is used for packaging instead of plastic air pillows, when possible.

A just-in-time business model is in place for production printing, which eliminates the need for departmental storage rooms across the Company. Documents are printed as needed, which has reduced corporate document storage needs from about 3,000 square feet to 400.

The equipment does not require solvents or other harmful chemicals that are commonly used for cleaning; an alcohol-based solution is used.

AF Pressing the environmental issues 

A just-in-time business model is in place for production printing, which eliminates the need for departmental storage rooms across the Company. Documents are printed as needed, which has reduced corporate document storage needs from about 3,000 square feet to 400. 