Environmental Impact Report
All American has had a robust recycling program since 2009. We have only started collecting the data below since October 2022.
~ Annual Recycled Material
~ Efforts of CO2 conserved
These efforts are roughly equal to 105 barrels of oil consumed over a year, carbon dioxide captured by 709 tree seedlings grown over 10 years, or 4,817 gallons of gasoline consumed per year, or 47,132 pounds of coal burned per year.
These figures show how much of a positive environmental impact our company's recycling efforts have made. The data accounts for the specific makeup of our recycling activity (for example, percentages of plastics, cardboard, and metals), and considers all of the positive impacts of recycling, including energy saving, water saving, waste reduction, and hazmat reduction. Energy savings is generally cited as the greatest impact of recycling.
Processing recyclables into usable raw materials takes anywhere from 21% to 96% less energy than extracting virgin materials (depending on the recycled substance). These dramatic energy savings can be interpreted as "avoiding" carbon dioxide emissions and pollution.
These figures are estimates only, which have been calculated for our company based on recycling activity with Eco Development's Customized Recycling programs. The calculations were made using CalRecycle's Commercial Climate Calculator (www.ecoenergydevelopment.com).
All American is GREEN! We recycle ALL OF THE DUNNAGE from your product. We are PROUD to be one of the only, if not THE ONLY provider in Ohio that recycles ALL of the following: Cardboard, Styrofoam, Clear plastic, PET Strapping Watch the video and read below for more information on our green practices!
We Recycle over 90 percent of all packaging From Our Delivery Service.
Over 15 tons of cardboard packaging is compressed and recycled from our delivery service every year.
We recycle two types of styrofoam packaging: spongy—soft styrofoam (left), and rigid, hard styrofoam (right)
Specialized Hoppers melt and compress styrofoam into condensed bricks.
These machines have blades which chop up the styrofoam, then heat it, which releases the air and condenses the plastic into solid form.
The melted Styrofoam is palletized and sold off to be used again.
All American is GREEN! We recycle ALL OF THE DUNNAGE from your product.
We are PROUD to be one of the only, if not THE ONLY provider in Ohio that recycles ALL of the following:
Cardboard, Styrofoam, Clear plastic, PET Strapping
We recycle almost 100% of all the cardboard packaging coming from our delivery business.
We use a heavy duty industrial bailer/compactor to condense our carboard into compressed pallets.
All the boxes we receive from shipments of the furniture and other products we deliver are broken down and recycled. We have 2 large format cardboard bailer/compactors on site. these compactors can crush, and compact the cardboard into stacks which weigh up to XXX pounds each.