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2009 Sustainability Report. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
  • Home
  • From the Postmaster General
  • Key Indicators
  • From the Sustainability Vice President
  • Introduction
  • Sustainability in Operations
    • Processing the Mail
      • Mail transport equipment
      • Equipment reduction
      • Improved processing efficiencies
      • Surface transportation
    • Serving Customers
      • Delivery operations route management
      • Carrier Pickup
      • Collection box management
    • Greener Facilities
      • Facilities energy and sustainability program
      • Energy champions
      • Water conservation
    • Engineering for Sustainability
      • Intelligent mail
      • Alternate fuels
      • Using machinery better
      • Flats Sequencing System
      • Back to the future
  • Sustainable Supply Chain
    • Green purchasing
    • Closing the Circle award
    • A smaller footprint
  • Green Products and Services
    • Cradle-to-Cradle certified
      no price menuboards
    • Sustainable greeting card displays
    • Retail products
    • ReadyPost supplies
    • Licensing
    • Recycling self-service vending equipment
    • Point-of-service equipment
    • Insurance claims
    • PO Boxes
  • Championing People
    • Compensation and benefits
    • Employee resource management
    • Flexible work arrangements
    • Employee assistance
    • Shared services
    • eCareer
    • Employee health and safety
    • eOfficial personnel folder
    • Employee development and diversity
  • Safe and Healthy Environment
    • Safety and health
    • Ergonomic risk reduction program
    • Life Cycle Inventory of Mail
    • Waste and recycling
    • Zero waste
    • Greenhouse gas emissions inventory
    • Lobby recycling
    • Voluntary protection program
  • Community Connections
    • Customer experience measurement
    • Global partnerships
    • Mail recovery program
    • Marrow donor program
    • Postal Employees Relief Fund
    • “Have You Seen Me?” program
    • National Association of Letter
      Carriers annual food drive
    • Waste Busters
  • GRI Content Index
    • Profile Disclosures
    • Economic Performance Indicators
    • Environmental Performance Indicators
    • Labor Practices and Decent Work Performance Indicators
    • Human Rights Performance Indicators
    • Society Performance Indicators
    • Product Responsibility Performance Indicators
    • Logistics and Transportation Sector Supplement
  • Publishing Information
  • PDF Version
Cover of USPS 2009 Sustainability Report, 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle', with pictures across the middle of a hybrid deliver truck, sorting equipment, and a mail recycling box, and the USPS logo in the bottom right corner.

PDF version

Other reports

  • 2008 Sustainability Report
  • 2009 Annual Report
  • 2009 Comprehensive Statement on Postal Operations
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