I woke up to hear that today is Earth Day, in fact the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970 - wow!  It's a sure sign of creeping old age when you can remember the first Earth Day (like I can) - ouch!  Anyway it got us thinking about the ways that we try to be good stewards of resources and the environment in our day-to-day business practices at Lexicon. 

We do some simple, but we think meaningful and important things:  we've got recycling collection bins for plastics and bottles at various locations throughout our facility, in repair production areas (more about that below) and staff break areas.  Since we can't get onsite collection of consumer recyclables at our location, we bag them up and one of our employees (thanks Scott!) takes them home where he has curbside recycling service.

Every repair bay in our service center facility has a recyclable plastics collection point for housings, covers, and cases.  All of our repair processes are designed with an eye to capture reworkable electronics which are saved and siphoned off to a background, in-house recovery process for refurbishment and reuse.  We try to absolutely limit the disposal of electronic waste, but we handle that with an e-waste processor who uses environmental best practices.

Our receiving team makes it a practice to salvage and reuse good packing materials - paper, bubble wrap, even the ESD friendly version.  That team sorts these reuseable materials into bins adjacent to our pack stations and out it goes again. 

None of this is "earth-shattering" but we think it adds up to "earth-friendly":-).