Our Commitment To A Greener Future
AFD is committed to environmental best practices in our business operations. Our efforts focus on sustainability along with protecting the health and safety of our employees. We strive for a positive impact on the environment and support our customers’ sustainability goals through the following service offerings:
End of Ownership Services – We help customers divert furniture assets from landfill by reusing, recycling, refurbishing, reselling or donating products. Documentation detailing the redistribution, recycling and transfer of assets can be provided for many activities.
Minimizing Waste – We eliminate waste by recycling packaging materials from jobsites and our warehouse. Cardboard, plastic, metal and wood materials from materials from jobsites and our warehouse. Cardboard, plastic, metal and wood are all recycled. Our VP of operations works closely with manufactures to eliminate as much packaging as possible and request blanket wrapped shipments
Conserving Resources – We make every effort to pack our trucks efficiently, consolidate trips to and from our warehouse, and plan our trucking routes to conserve fuel, while still meeting customer requirements.
Industry Support
AFD is proud to support our industry’s movement toward more sustainable and environmentally-responsible workspace design, products, and practices. We recognize the importance of balancing the current demands of the corporate workplace with the conservation of our natural resources and the welfare of our future generations. AFD LEED Accredited, on-staff Project Managers represent a commitment to helping our customers blend the needs of business profitability, workers’ health, and protection of our planet with office furniture sustainability. To ensure that unused products in our inventory do not end up in landfills, we ensure these products are donated to local schools and townships in the New York tri-state area.
We take sustainability seriously and only partner with companies whose practices align with our high standards of sustainability. For example, Steelcase is now carbon neutral in their own operations and is on track to reduce their carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. To learn more about Steelcase’s work towards better futures for the planet, visit People + Planet.
A Sustainable Home for Our Business
In June of 2010 AFD made a conscious to move to a “GREEN” building in New York City. This building provides energy efficient lighting, participates in “GREEN” recycling and waste collection and uses solar power energy. In the construction of our space AFD installed lights on timers or motion detectors, has heat and air conditioning turned to low /off after working hours, purchased only furniture that is SCS Indoor Advantages Certified and/or Cradle to Cradle Certified, we only purchase paper products that are of recycled content and donate all cell phones and computers at the end of ownership.