Greening Our Schools
At Copernicus Educational Products Inc. environmental initiatives are taking root.
Copernicus Environmental Initiatives
The environment has always been an important consideration at Copernicus. From day one we have always strived to do the right thing when it comes to environmental responsibility. Some of our environmental initiatives include:
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ECO Friendly Products
Our focus is on innovative, teacher driven and child safe educational products while working to shrink our ecological footprint. Re-usable products such as our Write & Wipe Overlay, which reduces paper waste and our Re-Write Labels, are a few of our eco-friendly products. Our steel is coated with a durable baked-on powder coat finish that is more environmentally responsible than conventional painting.
We are faced with balancing innovation, sustainability and recyclability with affordability, quality, value, and style. And we are proud to announce that we now have recycled content in our Royal® Tub Family. The following colors Red, Blue and Green in styles CC4068, CC4069, CC4070, CC4071 and CC4074 will contain 50% of recycled milk bottles. These eco-friendly tubs will continue help keep you organized as well as helping our earth.
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Ecological Land Management
Since 1991 Copernicus has planted over 50,000 trees on approximately 90 acres of property with habitat restoration and wildlife habitat being the primary objective. This area consists of dense forest with open grasslands for bird and insect habitat.
In the Spring of 2009 with the help from Natural Landscapes, Copernicus had 150 sq. meters of lawn converted to a naturalization area for the purpose of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and improving wildlife habitat. This area will be expanded each year until the entire lawn of 1/4 acre is converted into a naturalization area.
In August 2009, we were awarded a Backyard Habitat Certification from the Canadian Wildlife Federation for outstanding efforts in helping wildlife through the creation of habitat. Some of our environmental initiatives include Ecological Land Management, ECO Friendly Products and Waste Reduction.
To read the article that they have recently written about Copernicus and our environmental efforts please click here.
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Trees and Schools
2009 was the first year Copernicus began the Tree Donation Program for Earth Day, where we donated approx. 1200 saplings to each student and teacher at local schools. And for the 2010 Earth Day, we provided over 2100 saplings to six local schools. We would like to grow that in 2011 to ten local schools.
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Waste Reduction
Through a waste reduction and recycling program over the last 2 years, Copernicus has reduced its landfill refuse from 8 dumpsters of garbage per month to 2 dumpsters per month.
Packaging Materials
To ensure that our packaging materials don’t end up in a landfill we engineer our packaging so that 85% can be easily recycled.
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