Green Practices
Making a Green Planet our Priority
IBG Fulfillment™ was the first wine fulfillment company to make green practices a priority. Since our inception in 2001, we've built ecologically friendly systems into our already paperless facility in order to increase energy efficiency and reduce our carbon footprint.
We measure our ecological conservation on three fronts:
Functionality
Green solutions contribute to our overall fulfillment service by serving the greater purpose of shipping, while at the same time reducing our carbon footprint. Our completely paperless fulfillment center benefits the entirety of our shipping operation in both productivity and environmental efficiency.
Cost Effectiveness
We search for solutions which not only help the environment but at the same time reduce the overall costs associated with the shipment of wine. Improvements such as ceiling and wall insulation reduce unwanted temperature fluctuations, resulting in savings both in cost and the energy utilized for cooling or heating our facility.
Long-Term Ecological Impact
Our goal is to become completely energy efficient, and in order to do so the practices we put in place must have long term positive implications for the environment. As an example, our use of fluorescent light bulbs efficiently converts more input energy into visible light, resulting in bulbs which last 10-20 times longer than incandescent lights.
Our Green Practices in Action
In an effort to reduce our carbon footprint we have:
- Implemented a completely paperless fulfillment facility
- Installed solar panels, low energy lighting, and a full recycling program to reduce electricity use in our 150,000 square foot fulfillment center
- Recycled 329,459 pounds of cardboard in 2008
- Installed temperature and precipitation controllers in the ceiling vent to cool using outside air
- Shipped 95% of orders with 100% recyclable pulp rather than Styrofoam
- Installed ceiling and wall insulation to reduce temperature change
- Used conveyors which are air driven
- Switched to fluorescent lighting rather than sodium vapor
