Sustainability
Our environmental awareness goals
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Communication
We keep our employees, customers, and government and other partners informed about our sustainability efforts and the progress we’ve made toward working greener.
Our environmental awareness communications include:
- An annual greenhouse gas inventory:
- Executive Order 14057: Catalyzing America’s Clean Energy Economy Through Federal Sustainability.
- International Post Corporation environmental measurement and monitoring with our postal peers across the world.
- Our Annual Sustainability Report.
- USPS BlueEarth Carbon Accounting which enables our business customers to measure and manage their greenhouse gas emissions.
Policies and standard work instructions
Every postal employee is encouraged to actively contribute to sustainability efforts, helping to foster a culture of environmental awareness and responsibility throughout the organization.
The Postal Service provides training, resources and incentives to empower employees to make sustainable choices in their daily work activities. To ensure employees are informed, the Postal Service provides easy-to-access and readily available environmental compliance bulletins on a dedicated environmental management website.
Training
Our priority strategies for achieving environmental compliance include employee training and communications, as well as innovation to improve site-level compliance.
The Postal Service provides training on applicable regulations and procedures for environmental and energy management. Topics include hazardous and universal waste management, stormwater permitting, spill management planning and underground storage tank operations, and facility utility consumption. We also maintain both a comprehensive environmental information management system that houses site-specific data, action items and important environmental records along with a utility management system that provides facility costs, usage and bill payment for over 90% of our utility consumption.
Our partnerships
