Leadership in Corporate Responsibility with Highland Estates

Leadership in Corporate Responsibility Title

Goal:
	Provide environmentally responsible vending, coffee, and food programs that feature and promote sustainable actions, organic products, and feature responsible partner companies.

Practices:

Carbon Neutral Coffee and Vending Programs
Vend Misers
Organic Products
Local Products (mfg within 150 miles of branch)
Responsible partner/suppliers

What is a carbon offset?

A carbon offset is a certificate representing the reduction of one metric ton (2,205 lbs) of carbon dioxide emissions, the principal cause of global warming. Although complex in practice, carbon offsets are fairly simple in theory. If you develop a project that reduces carbon dioxide emissions, every ton of emissions reduced results in the creation of one carbon offset. Project developers can then sell these offsets to finance their projects.

There are hundreds of different types of carbon reduction projects. For example, a wind farm generates clean energy, which reduces carbon emissions from coal-burning power plants. In order to finance its operations, a wind farm can sell these reductions in the form of carbon offsets.

Carbon offsets are the only practical way that you can reduce your global warming pollution to zero.

Offset - n. 1. something that counterbalances; a compensating equivalent.
Carbon Offset

One Flavia Coffee Machine generates, 10,230 pounds of CO2 emissions

The cost for the carbon offset is equal to $10.91 per Metric Ton

Highland Estates Coffee Traders will purchase $50.73 Carbon Offsets to make your coffee maker Carbon Natural.

VendingMiser®-What is it?

Let VendingMiser® put you on a cost-effective refresher course for energy savings and conservation. No need to purchase new machines to reduce operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions. When equipped with the VendingMiser®, refrigerated beverage vending machines use less energy and are comparable in daily energy performance to new ENERGY STAR qualified machines. Smart machines save money....read more!

VendingMiser® cuts energy costs down to size. Click here for more!

VendingMiser® incorporates innovative energy-saving technology into a small plug-and-play device that installs in minutes, either on the wall or on the vending machine.

VendingMiser® brings you...

A quick, inexpensive solution for immediate energy savings and conservation
Longer machine life span
Early ROI
Environmental benefits
Compatibility with all types of cold drink vending machines

VendingMiser® uses a Passive Infrared Sensor to:

Power down the machine when the surrounding area is vacant
Monitor the room's temperature
Automatically re-power the cooling system at one- to three-hour intervals, independent of sales
Ensure the product stays cold

This Miser runs the bank...

For a series of up to four machines, VendingMiser® can use its embedded Sensor Repeater, which allows it to be controlled from the PIR sensor of any other Miser in the bank.

Miserly savings...

Maintenance savings is generated through reduced running time of vendor components, estimated at $40 - $80 per year, per machine. Energy consumption is reduced an average of 46% -- typically $150 per machine annually. Click here to read more!

Environment

According to the Worldwatch Institute, in the United States, food now travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to table, as much as 25 percent farther than two decades ago. That shipping and trucking does incredible damage to the environment in the form of global warming and air pollution. Eating locally also helps reduce the immense amount of non-renewable resources wasted in transporting food. Fuel conservation isn't only about driving less: it’s also about buying things that don’t travel half-way across the globe.

In addition, local companies, who use more sustainable and greening practices, act as stewards of the environment. By buying from local companies you help support sustainable practices.

Community

The purchases you make can have a profound impact on your community. However, if you eat and purchase locally then you are simultaneously investing in your own community and helping to preserve local farmers and artisans ensuring their traditions continue. If you buy local, you are helping to ensure that we can savor these authentic flavors in the future. There are many other reasons to eat local, pause to find out more about how your food choices impact our local and global communities.

Responsible Partner/Suppliers

Compass Group has a long standing commitment to its clients, operations and the local communities to provide the best possible products, goods and services. From a historical perspective, traditional items have been predominantly utilized by our numerous and diverse operations. As a global leader in food service management, Compass Group is acutely aware of the impact of our operations on the communities in which business is conducted and on society in general.

Please review our partner and suppliers sustainability programs CLICK HERE

LEEF Minimum Certification Requirements:

Silver

Sales and operation training on Sustainable Vending Programs (new USP)
Carbon Neutral Vending or Coffee Program installed (new or current customer
1 Vend Miser Program installed (new or current customer)
1 Organic Machine installed (new or current customer)
1 Local Product Featured

Gold

2 Carbon Neutral Vending Programs (1 new & 1 current customer)
2 Vend Miser Programs (1 new & 1 current customer)
2 Organic Machines (1 new & 1 current customer)
2 Local Products Featured

Platinum

4 Carbon Neutral Vending Programs (2 each, new & current customers)
4 Vend Miser Programs (2 each, new & current customers)
4 Organic Machines (2 each, new & current customers)
4 Local Products Featured