Our Commitment to You
Our vision of a sustainable future means we will take steps to reduce, reuse, and recycle our resources in order to protect our world for future generations. We are sensitive to environmental issues and we have made changes at our stores and offices as part of our long-term commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainability. For example, we saved 1.5 million kw-hours of electricity annually as a result of the lighting retrofits that we have done in-store.
What does this green lighting initiative represent?*
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- 1031 tons of CO2 reduced
- 215 cars off the road
- 115,576 gallons of gasoline saved
- 26,434 tree seedlings grown for 10 years
*2013 Stats Taken from EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator
Our Team
To become a more environmentally-friendly, “greener” company, we created a Recycling Committee in 2010 and have identified Recycling Champions for each of our store locations. The Champions are employee volunteers that are passionate about being good stewards of our planet. It is their responsibility to oversee and implement our recycling program at each location. This program has had an overwhelming success so far, and we’re excited to see it continue to grow!
In Our Fresh Foods Stores and Office:
We offer a Pull-N-Pak® green bags in produce. These are eco-friendly and made up of 30% recyclable materials. Each bag is dispensed one at a time, reducing waste up to 20%.
Our Green Bag is now at each register if you forget your reusable bag. Benefits include:
- It’s made with 30% reyceable materials
- It’s made to carry a larger capacity so that less bags are used to pack your groceries
- It has a special sealed bottom that will not tear/break easily.
In addition to bags, stretch wrap in our distribution centers from palettes is recycled through our grocery supplier. White copy paper and shredded paper at our office go through the Recycling Company.
Stats
10.0 tons of Grocery T-sacs were collected and recycled*
280.4 tons recycled through single-stream collection (this consists of office paper, newsprint, aluminum, metal cans and plastics)*
640 tons of cardboard were baled and recycled***
4,089 gallons of waste cooking oil is collected and reused as truck fuel*
We also offer a variety of eco-friendly household and cleaning products in our stores.*
In Our Home & Garden Stores:
Our Green Bag is now at each register if you forget your reusable bag! Benefits include:
- It’s made with 30% recycleable materials
- It’s made to carry a larger capacity so that less bags are used to pack your groceries
- It has a special sealed bottom that will not tear/break easily.
Cardboard at our stand alone Home & Garden Centers is recycled along with single stream items.
Stats
570.6 tons of recycled through single stream collection*
84.3 tons of cardboard*
10.6 tons of Horticultural plastics and shrink wrap were recycled (this consists of plastic pots and plant flats).*
* As of 2016.
**As of 2011.
*** As of 2012.
Working with Our Customers
For every reusable bag you use, we will reward you with .05 cents off your total purchase per bag.
Bring us your used Stauffers plastic shopping bags and we’ll recycle them for you! Bags are sent back to the manufacturer to be reused.
Join us in our initiative to preserve this planet for future generations!
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 🌎