We will establish an office waste management and recycling policy
for our facilities.
Our field operations strive for 100 percent recycling of wood waste—our largest source of waste—where
allowable by law. We are also committed to reducing our facility waste across our North American footprint.
However, with over 100 facilities across the U.S. and Canada, managing waste within Davey Tree's
operations is a complicated endeavor. We have therefore focused on paper—our largest single source of
facility waste—in our facility waste efforts thus far. To tackle this paper waste across our footprint, we
have begun drafting a Sustainable Paper Use Policy. This policy focuses on:
Using paper efficiently
Maximizing recycled content
Choosing responsibly sourced fiber
Supporting clean production practices
Closing the loop through recycling
We plan to finalize and roll out the Sustainable Paper Use Policy in the U.S. and Canada in 2015.
We will develop a landscape environmental quotient model for homeowner
education and outreach.
John Davey created Davey Tree around the core concept of environmental stewardship. Over 100 years later,
Davey Tree continues to incorporate the environment into our business model and improve our methods for
delivering environmentally-friendly solutions. Throughout 2014, we researched existing environmental impact
quotient (EIQ) models that could help us better understand the risks associated with pesticide products in
urban landscapes. Such an EIQ would provide another tool to help us, and the clients we serve, consider
the environmental impacts of product use—in a quantifiable manner—when delivering plant health care.
Given that current applications relate specifically to agricultural landscapes, our team reached out to leading
academic experts in the agricultural use of EIQs for guidance. Development of a landscape EIQ has proven
more time- and resource-intensive than expected due to the large number of variables present in urban
landscapes. We remain committed to developing solutions that accurately measure risk for urban landscapes
and provide holistic care for plants and their surrounding environment.
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