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Americo - The Recycle leader

Americo is a family owned business that has followed the environment friendly practices for a long time now. Being in business for more than forty years, Americo has made using environment friendly practices a policy much before they actually came to the forefront. Some of the efforts that Americo has put in place for its manufacturing facilities are:

• The facility itself operates under an EPA approved clean air permit.
• With continued investments (of millions of dollars) in the facility, Americo has reduced their energy consumption by 30% in a very short time.
• Americo has replaced their old HVAC systems with the new low energy High Seer rated systems resulting in reduced carbon footprints.
• Motors, in the manufacturing process, have been placed on variable frequency drives (VFD) resulting in energy efficiency and reducing consumption by more than 30%.
• Americo’s main facility in Georgia is getting a roof replacement with a highly reflective elastomeric coating that reduces the internal temperature and conserves energy.
• The highly powerful halogen lighting systems are being replaced by T8 fluorescent lighting systems reducing energy consumption and increasing the lumens per sq. ft.
• HVAC systems in Americo’s offices are designed to automatically sense occupation levels and adjust cooling rates resulting in energy savings.
• The current purchasing system of Americo is paperless and they also encourage EDI processing for customers who do not need paper, thus reducing waste.
• With convenient placement of bins across Americo’s facilities, waste disposal is efficient and categorized.

Another environment-friendly milestone that Americo has achieved is to create a pond at is main facility in an area where wild grass grew. This pond has been designed and made in such a manner that it can preserve wild life. It captures rain water and storm run-off water to keep itself full and is home to several species of fish. The pond is surrounded by forty types of terrestrial plants and also has twenty more aquatic plants enclosed within, all planted with care and need assessment. This pond is also home to thirty Koi fish rescued from the University of Georgia and is known to attract at least fifteen species of birds and seven species of dragonflies to its radius.

More and more businesses need to get environment-friendly in Americo’s mode to make the green drive a success story.