Happy Earth Day! Green Efforts – Part 1
Environmental responsibility is something that Hydra-Tech Pumps is always working on, even when it isn’t Earth Day. From the offices to the manufacturing floor and machine shop, we are constantly looking at our processes and waste stream to see what we can do to reduce our impact on the environment. In our 2021 newsletters, we will publish three segments on our efforts in April, August and December highlighting our efforts. Here are some of the things Hydra-Tech Pumps does on a regular basis to protect the environment:
- Since moving the business to Nesquehoning in 2007, we have always recycled our paper, cardboard, aluminum, glass and plastic. This is actually a cost to the company as we have a single stream dumpster on site that allows us to properly dispose of these kinds of items for reuse as recycled content in new products.
- We recycle the ink cartridges from all of our printers.
- Paperless punch clock and paperless payroll.
- We recycle steel, aluminum, stainless steel and other materials that are a byproduct of our in house machining of parts. Thousands of pounds of metals are recycled by Hydra-Tech Pumps every year.
Doing the right thing isn’t always cheap and it isn’t always easy. However we believe in leaving a place better than we found it so we are diligent about recycling and properly dealing with the waste stream generated by our business. Look for details on more of our green efforts in the August newsletter.
Green Efforts – Part 2
On Earth Day in April, we began a three part segment in our 2021 newsletters talking about environmental stewardship and what Hydra-Tech Pumps contributes to these efforts. Environmental responsibility is something that Hydra-Tech Pumps is always working on. From the offices to the manufacturing floor and machine shop, we are constantly looking at our processes and waste stream to see what we can do to reduce our impact on the environment. Here are some of the things Hydra-Tech Pumps does on a regular basis to protect the environment:
- We properly dispose of glass waste generated by our blasting process. Using crushed glass in our process instead of sand is actually safer for our employees as well.
- We have replaced 70% of the old tube style fluorescent lighting in our manufacturing space with energy saving LED lighting. The fluorescent tubes are being returned for proper disposal and the old fixtures are in some cases being recycled / repurposed. We will replace all of the fixtures as time and resources allow.
- In the new 8000 square foot addition to our plant, we have high efficiency heaters to warm the space as well as low energy / high efficiency lighting in place.
- We recycle all of the cardboard boxes that come into our facility (as well as the packing materials in the boxes). Most boxes are shredded to be used as packing materials for our outbound shipments of product to customers. What we don’t shred goes into the single stream dumpster for recycling.
We like to think of ourselves as the character Jeff Goldblum plays in the movie Independence Day. Trying to save the planet one aluminum can at a time.
Green Efforts – Part 3
On Earth Day in April we began a three part segment in our 2021 newsletters talking about environmental stewardship and what Hydra-Tech Pumps contributes to these efforts. We followed up in August with a second segment and will wrap it up here. Environmental responsibility is something that Hydra-Tech Pumps is always working on. From the offices to the manufacturing floor and machine shop, we are constantly looking at our processes and waste stream to see what we can do to reduce our impact on the environment. Here are some of the things Hydra-Tech Pumps does on a regular basis to protect the environment:
- Hydra-Tech Pumps participates annually in an electronics recycling event in Nesquehoning where computers, cables, phones, televisions and other electronic equipment are given to a company that recycles all of the components properly. In 2019 we sponsored our own even where we had Gaylord boxes in our plant that were filled up with electronics and eventually shipped to the same company for recycling and proper disposal.
- Waste oil recycling.
- Hydra-Tech Pumps uses clean propane to heat all of the manufacturing and office space at our facility.
- Pallet and Gaylord recycling. We receive a lot of product from our suppliers on pallets and in Gaylord style boxes. We reuse the majority of the pallets and Gaylord boxes that we receive to protect our customers’ shipments when we send them.
We are doing our part to be minimize our impact on the environment and our environmental liability. Hopefully you are doing your part too!