Sustainability
Sustainability
Using our resources to enhance the communities where we live and work is fundamental to our core values. We are committed to environmental stewardship — focusing on the interests of customers, employee-owners and communities.
In the distribution industry, keeping the planet bright green and blue means working with manufacturer partners that create products in ways that have minimal impacts on our communities. It means we sell energy-efficient products, like LED lighting and controls, and provide innovative solutions, like job trailers, vending and kitting, to drive sustainable practices for our customers. It also means we continuously stay on the forefront of new products that will minimize our customers’ environmental impact.
For us, it’s about leaving the world better than we found it.
Vision for the future
We will continue to focus on the basics of reducing, reusing and recycling to foster safe and environmentally sound operations and enhance our daily impact on the world.
By working to lessen our collective impact on the environment, we will deliver on the promise to improve our world, live our culture of caring and do our part to pass on a better world to the next generation.
Our objective: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030.
Our Plan
Our strategy to achieve this reduction is focused in four key areas: Drive fewer miles, consume lower emission fuels, utilize lower emission vehicles (where practical) and increase facility energy efficiency. Our detailed plan ensures we continue to meet or exceed our customers’ expectations, strongly supports our strategic and core vendor partnerships, provides a strong financial ROI to our employee-owners and reduces our carbon footprint within our communities.
Sustainability Report
Amid a variety of changes in the world around us, Border States remains committed to leaving our world better than we found it. Within this report, you will learn how Border States continues to positively impact lives and the communities where we operate. Whether it is fostering a sense of belonging for all employee-owners, minimizing our impact on the environment or demonstrating strong ethics and sound governance, Border States makes a difference for our employee-owners, customers, vendors and the natural world.
While we celebrate the work that has been done, Border States is committed to continuing our sustainability efforts, and we have set future targets and goals to ensure accountability.