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2015 Corporate Responsibility Report

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We will identify a method by which to track community investment, employee volunteerism, speaking engagements and contributions. Prior to 2014, we tracked community investment at only the corporate level. Last year, we launched our first community engagement survey to expand our community investment reporting to include facility-level giving. We continued use of the survey in 2015 to ensure our giving is effective and aligns with community needs. This valuable feedback from the field assists us in determining how best to leverage our giving efforts. In 2016, we plan to formalize our community involvement with a specific policy and plan. We will establish an office waste management and recycling policy for our facilities. Through our materiality assessment, we identified wood waste from our field operations as the majority of our waste footprint. Our field operations strive for 100 percent recycling of wood waste—our largest source of waste—where allowable by law. While we strive to minimize our facility waste across our North American footprint through reduction and recycling programs, we focus company-wide waste efforts on recycling wood waste. We plan to confirm this focus through the updated materiality assessment. We will develop a landscape environment quotient model of homeowner education and outreach. John Davey created Davey Tree around the core concept of environmental stewardship. More than 135 years later, Davey Tree continues to incorporate environmental awareness into our business model and improve our methods for delivering environmentally friendly solutions. Throughout 2015, we found existing environmental impact quotient (EIQ) models that we believe can 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. In 2016, we will validate the model with our top 10 chemicals by volume and, if proven accurate, will complete the analysis on the rest of our chemicals. The EIQ will then be incorporated into all new product decisions. 7

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