Office buildings offer a great opportunity to prioritize water efficient measures. One of the primary benefits of a water efficient strategy to a business is the financial savings. Over the past 10 years, the costs of water and wastewater services have risen at a rate well above the consumer price index, and office building managers […]
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Water Efficiency Checklist for Restaurants
The average restaurant uses 6,000 gallons of water per day. Increasing the water efficiency of the operation saves money, reduces the burden on the municipal water supply, and eases the impact on wastewater systems. A water-efficient restaurant is one that uses at least 20% less water than the calculated baseline for the building before […]
Use These Tips to Buy the Right Deicers Today
As lovely fall drives give way to wintry snow mixes and slippery parking lots, walkways, and entrances, it’s not too late to align your deicers with your sustainability goals. Especially if your facility is pursuing LEED Operations + Maintenance certification, but also if you’re concerned with surface corrosion, vegetation loss, skin irritation and more, facility […]
The Inc. 5000 List Reveals Sustainable Supply as Fastest-Growing Retailer in Colorado
Broomfield, CO – Sustainable Supply, a leading provider of building and maintenance supplies, announced today that it had been named to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States for the fourth consecutive year. The company’s rank climbed to #699 in 2016 with three-year sales growth of 564%. The list […]
4 Cleaners to Transform the Air You Breathe
A Google search of “common cleaners” reveals some often overlooked concerns with cleanliness: “How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?” “8 Hidden Toxins: What’s Lurking in Your Cleaning Products?” “5 Common Household Cleaners Hazardous to Your Health” Cleaners can be anything but clean. In fact, as the titles suggest, common cleaners […]
The Secret Ingredient of Sustainability
There’s never been a better time to talk sustainability. New technologies emerge monthly that promise future efficiencies. Improvements to existing systems abound, and study results released regularly verify the need for business decisions that take human health, resource efficiency, and environmental sustainability into account. As inventions come to life and improvements occur, are we […]
Your Complete Guide to the Green Restroom
Choosing the products for your new restroom can be a real ho-hum kind of event. What do you need? Toilets. Urinals. Sinks. Faucets. Partitions. Hand dryers. Toilet paper dispensers. The list goes on, but all those products are quite straightforward. Nothing flashy or high-tech…. At the same time, due diligence requires you to make […]
Sustainable Supply Named Colorado Company to Watch Winner
Broomfield, CO – Sustainable Supply announced today that it has been named a Colorado Company to Watch, acknowledging the drive, excellence and influence of Sustainable Supply as a growing company in the state. Colorado Companies to Watch honors second-stage companies that develop valuable products and services, create quality jobs, enrich communities, and create new industries […]
5 Green Cleaning Tips for Your Business
The thirst for commercial green cleaning programs continues to build. For some, it’s just good business, emanating from the corporate responsibility sphere — people increasingly expect a certain amount of “greenness” in business because businesses have a much larger impact than one person or one home. Quite simply, business, as usual, needs also to […]
Profit’s not always the point
“You might not expect the chief operating officer of a major global corporation to look too far beyond either the balance sheet or the bottom line. But Harish Manwani, COO of Unilever, makes a passionate argument that doing so to include value, purpose and sustainability in top-level decision-making is not just savvy, it’s the only […]