OAKLEAF Waste

OAKLEAF’s zero waste strategy is simple. We are committed to helping you minimize your waste stream through reduction and diversion strategies. At the same time, we focus on maximizing your efficiency so you don’t waste precious time and resources.

Our Sustainability Mission Statement.

OAKLEAF is a sustainable business leader and innovator, helping our customers achieve zero waste in the most cost effective manner. OAKLEAF leverages information, technology and its extensive vendor network to provide creative sustainability solutions to our clients.

Differentiating OAKLEAF

Information: Best in class, real-time data and reporting systems available 24/7/365 on line for customer use

Knowledge: Understanding regulatory, investor and customer trends; developing end markets and collaborating with OAKLEAF's network of providers

Expertise: Identifying all opportunities that will lead to zero waste

• Characterize and identify each waste stream
• Reduce or eliminate waste to landfill
• Maximize recycling and divert landfill materials to recovery facilities

What is OAKLEAF's Role in Sustainability?

Sustainability at OAKLEAF is viewed as something that makes the environment better, preserves or improves the communities we live in, and with most companies is economically viable. Zero Waste is our approach to sustainability.

This pie chart shows the elements that every business uses to produce a product or provide a service. Every company utilizes labor, energy, a supply chain and other resources to operate its business.

In this chart you’ll notice that one input seems out of place. That is Waste. Waste is simply a resource that has been misspent or is out of place.

In order to drive toward Zero Waste, the focus must be on identifying and implementing strategies including recycling and diversionary solutions to drive misspent resources out of the equation.

Waste is an asset, a commodity. To really go to zero waste, you have to look at the waste stream and come up with a new process using diversion and recycling. Those are the type of things we look at to try to improve our clients’ bottom line.

Zero in on Zero Waste

CLIENT	FINANCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE
#1 U.S. based retailer (Ranking based on revenues)	$20 million in annual waste cost reduction Redeployed 35 internal waste FTEs
Nation's largest small-box discount retailer	$18 million in annual waste cost reduction Zero waste cost Innovative baling methodology via reverse logistics
Fast growing discount retailer with plans to add 20 million square feet of new store space	57% diversion of construction and demolition waste related to renovations and new store construction* $850,000 cost savings and $150,000 in rebates through onsite recycling of mixed debris, metal, concrete, wood, steel and sheetrock*
Leading owner, operator and developer of major retail properties	35% in annual program savings through innovative and aggressive efficiency programs
World's largest retail property group	30% in annual program savings through efficiency and unique client billing solutions
One of the nation's largest real state investment trusts (REITs), specializing in shopping mall properties	25% in annual program savings Cardboard recycling at 111 centers and single stream recycling implemented throughout the footprint
One of the nation's largest multifamily real estate investment trusts (REITs)	33% increase in annual net income Boosted leasing close ratios, occupancy and retention rates with enhanced curb appeal
Leading provider of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) systems	24% decrease in overall waste spend 100% recycling of wood, using pallets as boiler fuel, grinding for mulch and rebuilding for reuse

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