Walking “The Walk”: Quartek’s Carbon Footprint
2012
In 2011, Quartek joined the Niagara Sustainabilty Initiative (NSI) as a Monitoring Partner to help us practice what we preach and start walking “the walk”. We started with the following modest projects:
Implementation of a plastics, metal, glass and paper recycling program in all staff offices to increase Quartek’s diversion rate (amount of waste going to landfill).
Installation of programmable thermostats in our offices.
As a member of the NSI, Quartek measures its carbon footprint and continually seeks to improve our impact on the environment. Our baseline carbon footprint for 2011 was 99.6 tCO2e, comprised largely of emissions from automotive travel. The Quartek relocation downtown addresses this issue directly and will reduce these emissions substantially.