Water Use, Waste Management, and Commuting

Reducing Our Footprint

Water Use

As a company headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, we are constantly reminded of our responsibility to protect local waterways. In addition to our uSalmon-Safe Certification and as part of our LEED certification, we encourage water conservation at a facility level including automatic sensors, water dispensers, and encouraging employees to use reusable water bottles. We are working with our global offices through best practices to reduce water consumption overall.

Waste Management

We ensure our waste management practices comply with all local regulations for domestic waste, recycling, and composting with waste segregation at the source. This alone is not enough so we’ve developed our Green Leasing and Green Office guidelines to help build these systems and processes at the front end to ensure employees understand their role in waste diversion. In addition to our recycling and composting programs, we collect batteries and old IT equipment to ensure proper disposal. We also engage in food and clothes donation programs to limit waste and give back to our communities. We are developing policies to reduce single-use plastics, promote re-use, and create programming to increase awareness for our employees, including talks and workshops.

Commuting and Business Travel

Through our best practices guidelines, we’re also working to reduce business travel and encourage carpooling, ride-sharing, and public transportation whenever possible. We’ve worked to limit our commuting emissions by offering shuttle services that have reduced single-occupancy vehicle commutes to our headquarters by 24%.