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Cone Drive Corporate Citizenship

Environmental, Health, & Safety Policy

Cone Drive Strives for:

Cone Drive recycles scrap metals, scrap wood, cardboard and paper products, plastic sheeting, metal & plastic barrels, used oil, packaging materials (pellets, bubble wrap, etc.), miscellaneous glass, metal & plastic bottles and cans, and styrofoam and other miscellaneous plastics.
We do not allow process or shop wastes to be discharged into the sanitary water system. All process coolant and stray oils are pumped and treated by a licensed waste hauler.
Cone Drive composts over 50 lbs. of food waste every week! Employee gardeners rotate taking coffee grounds and other kitchen scraps for composting in their gardens.
Through Safety-Kleen's closed-loop recycling program for used oils and solvents, Cone Drive avoided 6 metric tons of Greenhouse gas emissions in 2010!
All of our computer and relayed electronics goes to our local Goodwill Centers for recycling through Dell’s Reconnect Program – Free technology recycling through Goodwill. Visit the Dell Reconnect Program online.

Cone Drive supports and utilizes the Grand Traverse County Hazardous Waste Disposals for all potentially hazardous materials left over from its operations.
By raising awareness through a "paper reduction challenge" with a goal of promoting efficient printing and eliminating unnecessary reports, Cone Drive employees were able to reduce paper consumption in the office by more than 40% in 2010, and plan to surpass that level moving forward.
Actively supporting a groundwater remediation project to clean up chemicals dumped more than 40 years ago.

Cone Drive continues to implement facility improvements to become more energy efficient as capital allows.
45% of Cone Drive employees took part in the Smart Commute Week initiative in 2011, reducing our carbon footprint by exploring alternatives to driving to work.
Community Supported Agriculture – Cone Drive maintains a drop-off site for employees who purchase a farm share of vegetables grown locally.
Changing Metal Halide Lighting to energy efficient fluorescent lighting
Added wall insulation
Variable Speed Compressor - saving 105,000 kilowatt hours per year

Sponsor of the Manufacturing Technology Academy
Holiday Baskets and support for local families in need
Cone Drive donations committee budgets annual community charity giving
Blood Drives - Cone Drive employees have donated over 300 pints of blood since restarting the blood donor program in 2008.