DC Velocity - June 2011

ly surprised by the results of the company’s baseline audit, which showed that its facilities were already doing a great deal of recycling, reports Susanne Batchelor, NFI’s senior vice president of marketing, who has lead responsibility for the company’s sustainability initiative. It has now upped the ante, giving managers of all 53 of its facilities goals for further waste reduction, she says.

As for what led NFI down this road, Batchelor says it all comes down to social responsibility. The company operates some 19 million square feet of DC space nationwide and has a fleet of 2,000 tractors and 6,700 trailers. “We looked at the company and said, ‘We are big enough to make a difference,’” Batchelor recalls. “So we said, ‘Let’s start doing some positive things.’”

Another company that’s decided it’s big enough to make a
difference is ProLogis. The company, one of the world’s
largest developers and operators of distribution space, with
more than 435 million square feet in North America,
Europe, and Asia, aims to be more than just a glob-
al leader in industrial development; it aims to
be a global leader in sustainable industrial
development. To that end, it has set three
environmental stewardship objectives for
itself: to minimize carbon emissions, to
minimize the ecological impact of its
developments, and to minimize the
impact of its own operations.

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