FM Green Team Starts Out With a Win

Facilities Management is #1 in the state of Utah…for driving down our miles in the Clear the Air Challenge!  The newly formed FM Green Team as one of its inaugural tasks chose to focus on the statewide Clear the Air Challenge.  The Green Team worked to get as many FM employees to sign up and track how many miles they carpooled, walked, bicycled, took TRAX or the bus, and trip chained in the month of July. We are very appreciative of management’s support for this effort—not only did Associate VP of FM Mike Perez agree to prizes and a pizza party for participants, but he also went out and bought a bicycle and has been using TRAX and his bike to commute to help the FM team win #1 team in Utah.  The FM team had over 125 participants who collectively saved over 63,000 miles driving in July.  The Green Team would like to thank each and every participant for tracking their miles and hope those participants can join us for the pizza party coming up August 13th (information to follow).

What else is the FM Green Team up to?  We have been educating ourselves about recycling options on campus and what can and cannot be recycled—watch out for Green Team members to show up to your staff meeting and explain about recycling on campus with a fun video and posters.  We have also put a bin in the café room at Turpin for plastics #3-7 that Green Team members are personally responsible for taking home and recycling.  This is one of only 3 bins on campus where you can recycle those types of plastic.  The Green Team also helped inventory existing recycling bins and get an order in for over 15 more bins throughout FM buildings where they will be helpful in increasing our recycling rates.

The Green Team has a list of several more ideas to implement ranging from a campaign to turn computers and other equipment off at the end of the day, recycling toner cartridges, reducing paper usage, and many more.  If you have an idea, feel free to come to our meetings which are held the first Tuesday of every month in the Oak Room 241 in Turpin.  There is a work order number available for every Green Team meeting so that all can participate.  Homemade baked goods are also a part of every meeting—come join us!

Facilities Management is #1 in the state of Utah for driving down our miles in the Clear the Air Challenge!