Environmentally sustainable practices

MERIT SMART SHIPPING ™ : product packaging comments with promising results

Merit looks for ways to reduce and conserve first, then to recycle. To do this, we are continuously challenging our processes and holding ourselves accountable for the results. As an added aspect of our Merit Smart Shipping Program, Merit has begun a multi-year commitment to take smart shipping even further and review all our product families for reductions in packaging. We have one goal in mind: eliminate all unnecessary packaging. We accomplish this by assessing how our products are ordered and used by our customers and then looking for opportunities to eliminate superfluous materials, such as intermediate boxes, packaging fillers, and number of shipments. In our first year of implementation, we recorded a savings of approximately 211,000 pounds in eliminated materials, included boxes and film. We look forward to reporting on this project year over year. Learn more →">Merit first seek ways to reduce consumption and protect the resources, the second for the recycling of resources.To this end, we continuously challenge our process, and shall be responsible for the results.As an additional aspect of our Merit intelligent transportation plan, the Merit has begun a commitment for many years, further promote the intelligent transportation, and review all of our products in order to reduce packaging.We have a goal in your heart, eliminating all unnecessary packaging.By evaluating our customers how to order and use our products, and then look for opportunities to eliminate redundant materials, such as the middle box, packing filler and the number of delivery, so as to realize this goal.In the first year of implementation, we eliminate records to save about 211000 pounds of material, including box and packing.We look forward to report this project in year after year in the future.Learn more -

Liquidation plan

In order to reduce the food sent to landfill garbage, Merit in Salt Lake City branch launched the liquidation plan XNUMX month in 2019.By working with a company dealing with food waste, Merit Cafe food particles is converted to natural gas, now provide energy for the family.The rest of the food waste is converted to a local farm manure.From the beginning, we have already transfer and continue a year from local transfer thousands of pounds of food waste landfill site.By doing so, we can help prevent methane gases into the atmosphere, leading to the town of salt lake in Utah winter inversion.

Electric vehicle charging station

In order to encourage more and more hope to reduce the carbon footprint the Merit of the staff, we in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ireland Galway factory installed electric vehicle charging stations.The electric car charger provided free of charge to our employees, and by preventing automobile emissions to help our community.

Efficient heating and cooling

Our campus all over the world use energy-saving variable frequency drives (VFDS) for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.We also recently in the operation of sensor using the water cooling system for the machines, used for cooling water is recycled, can save hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per month.

Reduce water consumption

One of our 2030 environmental sustainability objectives is to reduce our overall strength with water.To this end, we implement plan and measures, and put money in our global division more efficient use of water resources.For example, in our company headquarters is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, we have already removed more than 75% of the water on campus intensive grass, and drought-resistant plants and shrubs decorative rock and low water instead.Only the xeriscaping project can save about XNUMX every year thousands of gallons of water.