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CONSTRUCTION Rheem

Rheem has committed to training
250,000 plumbers, contractors,
LEADERS Luxe Bidet distributors, suppliers and others on
sustainable products, installations
In addition to making a quiet topic
or recycling best practices. These
easier to speak about, Luxe Bidet
promotes tree preservation and water training sessions expand knowledge
of relevant high-efficiency products,
conservation. Encouraging people enhance understanding of how they’re
Here are 10 building to rinse instead of wiping has saved installed or serviced, and highlight key
46.2 billion rolls of toilet paper, more environmental and cost-saving benefits
industry-related than 15 million trees and 473 billion to the end user.
gallons of production water. The under-
companies that specialize $40 price tag doesn’t hurt, either.
in making themselves Taylor Made Cabinets
Opting for custom-made cabinets
or others think green, Mohawk Industries and other woodworking often
Mohawk Industries has one of the means substituting all-natural for
from cutting back carbon nation’s largest delivery truck fleets and environmentally unfriendly. The wood
emissions (CO2e) to should generate excessive CO2e. But comes from endangered trees
a diesel fuel economy program, small or is produced in a hazardous manner;
showing the public how engine auxiliary power units with five- toxic paints are used during finishing.
important sustainability minute idling, built-in emission control Taylor Made Cabinets avoid those
devices, use of retreads on all trailers, miscues, opting for no-added
is in the long term. and aerodynamic truck packages make formaldehyde cabinets, plywood boxes
Mohawk a clean air leader. and solid wood drawers.

JinkoSolar Panasonic Trane Technologies

JinkoSolar’s history of sustainable Panasonic’s Panasonic Environment Trane Technologies wants to help reduce
practices includes pledging to Vision 2050 promotes utilizing clean customers’ CO2e by 1 gigaton by 2030.
power 100 percent of operations energy amounts that exceed energy That’s more than the combined annual
with renewables by 2025, cutting its used over the next three decades. These outputs of Italy, France and the United
electricity consumption per megawatt include expansion of energy-generation Kingdom, or 2 percent of the world’s
of production by 30 percent since 2015, and storage businesses, as well as offering production. Targets have been set for
and becoming the first solar panel revolutionary indoor air quality products accelerated clean technologies and energy
manufacturer to join the RE100 global such as the Cosmos healthy home system. efficiency, and reduced use of global
corporate renewable energy initiative. warming potential (GWP) refrigerants.
Rachio
LG Electronics U.S.A. At Rachio, conserving water and Uponor North America

LG Electronics met its 2030 Zero protecting water quality go hand Uponor North America (UNA) has
Carbon pledge for reduced CO2e in its in hand. The company’s yard care reduced CO2e, and boosted wind and
U.S. operations a year early. Instead of products create healthier plants without solar energy use by double-digit figures
cutting emissions by 50 percent by the polluting water and air with nitrogen annually since 2017. The company
end of 2020, the company met the goal and ecosystem-damaging chemicals. has also identified projects that could
by mid-2019 thanks to energy efficiency Its lawn treatment method contains the cut emissions impact by 1,300 metric
upgrades, conservation, and the use right amount of all-natural nutrients. tons annually. ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
of 80 percent-plus renewable energy And then there’s its Rachio 3 sprinkler certifications are in, while ISO 50001 is
across the board. controller. Enough said. underway. GB

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