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

o A battery-recycling box is available for Colleagues to deposit their household batteries and keep them out of the landfills. 

o Each floor throughout the building is equipped with a water fountain designed to refill bottles. 
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o Each floor throughout the building has designated recycling bins.  
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o 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. 
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o Our carpet floor tiles are Cradle to Cradle certified. 
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o Colleagues are printing double-sided when paper is necessary.
We use the Secure Print function that has been effective in helping eliminate waste. Tens of thousands of pages of paper are saved with this function.
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o We have an EV charging station available for Colleagues to use at the office. 

AF Print Shop presses 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.

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

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 electronics in our equipment are ROHS compliant with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances standard.

All electronic devices that need to be retired are sent through a recycling process that destroys machines in an environmentally responsible manner.  