VRI is Going Green!
Goal: The goal of V-Green is to continually review the way we do business and find ways to reduce the negative impact our business has on the environment.
What we are doing:
- Co-mingle recycling at corporate headquarters
- Started E-waste recycling program to keep our PERS and Medical Dispenser units out of landfills
- Encouraging Car pooling
- Eliminate Styrofoam and provide reusable drinking mugs to all employees
- Switch to recyclable paper, plates, and dinnerware
- Street clean up at company headquarters
- Tree planting
- Giving CFL light bulbs to employees for home use
- Turning off computers and lights when not being used
April 2009 Events (Check back at the end of April for pictures from these events)
- April 6th-10th: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- We will be implementing our recycling program and our e-waste recycling program. We will be switching to all recyclable dinner ware in our kitchen and passing out recyclable plastic mugs to all employees for their coffee and water.
- April 13th-17th: Let's Ride Together
- VRI is focusing on alternative means of transportation and car pooling. We are inviting employees to car pool to work and enter a drawing to win $50 gas gift card.
- April 20th-24th: Earth Day
- VRI employees are volunteering to clean up the litter off Progress Rd. in West Carrollton. We will also be planting a tree at our headquarters.
- April 27th-May 1st: Change a Light, Change the World
- We are giving our employees CFL light bulbs so that they can change their lights at home.
For more information on how you can "Go Green" at home please check out the information sheets below!