Today choosing materials for construction are more critical than ever before with the threat of global warming, waste, and environmental contamination. Choosing materials such as Stainless Steels offer not only one of the most durable and versatile products on the market today for variety of industries, but offer the purest life cycle of almost any recycled materials on the market today.
Stainless Steels are one of the worlds most recycles products, and within its composition lies raw materials that make the process of recycling stainless steels very economical. Most stainless steel products ranging from the 300 to 400 series have an average recycle content of 60 percent and greater. The rate is 25% old recycled materials, 30% new recycled materials & 40% new raw materials.
What Steel materials do we recycle?
- Stainless Steel
- Aluminum
- Hot rolled steel
- Cold rolled steel
- Brass
- Copper
- Titanium
- Galvanized
What Plastics & Composites do we recycle?
- Teflon
- High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
- Poly Carbonate
- Delrin
- Phenolic
- Abs Plastics
- Pvc’s
All Material are sorted and containerized for shipment to the recycle centers. Along with our standard recycle policy for raw materials used for construction we are continually moving toward a greener office everyday from paper consumption and ink cartridge recycling programs to electronic and consumable disposal policies. Creating a more robust digital office environment is at the forefront of our green office program. Using advanced networking & storage capabilities to send, receive & store working documents has helped reduce our waste by over 40%.
In last few years the construction industry has made great advanced toward the way drawings and documents are sent and received digitally. We welcome the latest in technology to reduce the amount of paper goods and waste and continue to help the advancement of these changes in our industries to help maintain a friendly balance between industry and the environment.
Berlin Food & Lab Equipment is committed to achieving low environment impact during the manufacturing processes and installations throughout the United States and neighboring countries.
We consistently strive to avoid adverse affects and impact to our health & to the environment. Our management team collectively enforces our goals listed below:
* Reducing landfill waste.
* Lowering energy costs through building retrofits & green building strategies.
* Taking advantage of solar technology.
* Using environmentally friendly cleaning & process chemicals during manufacturing.
* Water Conservation.
* Using steel recycle programs throughout all processes.
* Using digital technology to store and transfer data without paper waste.
Lighting Measures
Install lighting measures to reduce peak demand by replacing:
* First-generation T8 lamps and generic electronic ballasts with third-generation T8 lamps and extra-efficient electronic ballasts.
* Recessed T12 or T8 fixtures with suspended indirect/direct fixtures featuring third-generation T8 lamps and extra-efficient ballasts* or T5/T5HO.
* Halogen or incandescent spot lights with ceramic metal halide lamps and fixtures.
* Fluorescent refrigerator/freezer case lighting with LED refrigerator/freezer case lighting.
* Magnetically ballasted HID fixtures with electronically ballasted HID fixtures.
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