L.E.A.P.
In February of 2009, a committee of six Lathem employees was formed in order to assess the company's energy usage, elicit & manage suggestions from co-workers on ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, as well as determine short and long term goals to minimize the company's carbon footprint.
To date, a majority of these ideas have been implemented and have helped the company not only reduce energy usage and costs, but begin the process of evaluating environmentally friendly business practices internally, within our supply chain and ultimately at the consumer level.
- Please view our Environmental Impact Report for 2010 (courtesy of American Recycling of Georgia)
These are just a few of the changes we've implemented thus far:
Reduced our plastic trash bag consumption from an
average of 1500 per month to 200-300 per month.
Stopped purchasing styrofoam cups. Everyone uses
their own reusable cup.
We are reusing packing material from our vendors
(bubble wrap and paper).
Our Maintenance personnel have rewired many areas of
our building in order to reduce lighting in unoccupied rooms and
areas.
We reduced our energy consumption by over 30% in 2009
as compared to 2008.
The LEAP Committee
From left; Andy Turpen, Doyal Eubanks, Karen Harper, Bill Spackman, Nila Rose and Audie Byrd.
