Celebrating Earth Day: Implementing Sustainable Change.

Earth Day has evolved over the years, becoming the perfect day for corporate reflection. Today earth day is described as “A Day we celebrate humanity’s movement towards a greener, more sustainable future that protects and supports every living thing on earth.” The article below shares statistics, ideas, and our contributions to inspire others to initiate sustainable change, big or small.

Food For Thought

Turning off, going paperless, recycling, and using reusable grocery bags are small, impactful changes that any business can implement to make a significant difference. Here are a few shocking stats:

The world produces 300 million tons of paper each year
Out of the 17 billion cubic feet of trees deforested each year, over 60% are used to make paper
Only 35% of waste is recycled in the USA out of 267 million tons of garbage.
In Canada, only 9% of all plastic is recycled, and the rest ends up in a landfill.
The average plastic shopping bag is used for 12 minutes but takes 1,000 years to degrade.
Unfortunately, 160,000 plastic bags are used per second globally, less than 1% of which are recycled.

Become Part of The solution

Create impactful change as part of a team by doing something to benefit the environment and local green spaces. Here are a few simple ideas:

Partake in earth day programs
Share some Earth Day love on social
Plant trees
Support local farmers
Create a green committee
Organize a community clean-up

Or orchestrate a fundraiser for your favourite green charity. Although cliché, Earth Day means that every day is an opportunity to impact the future. A message that we take seriously at Carney. We contribute to sustainability by:

Recycling
Turning off electronics and lights at the end of each day
Eliminating the use of plastic bags
Providing fully electric products/systems
Encouraging customers to abolish 98% of battery wash waste
Going paperless

Carney is committed to change. As an organization, we plan to continue to improve our CSR and increase our sustainability efforts each year. Our team participated in Earth Hour this year and celebrated Earth Day by cleaning up a local green space; check out the photos below.