environmental responsibility:
what we are doing
At Top Flight, we are committed to environmental responsibility and sustainability.
Our company strives to lead the way in keeping it green from start to finish. Many of our products meet or exceed international standards for sustainable practices. From small steps, like recycling all the paper in our offices, to big steps, like installing solar panels, we are continually seeking ways to reduce our eco-footprint.
Recycling & Reusing
Top Flight integrates recycling into its manufacturing processes and office practices.
• Throughout the manufacturing process, we collect leftover materials, such as paper, cartons, and wire to reuse and recycle.
• We use water-based ink in the printing process that can easily be washed out (unlike solvent-based ink).
Efficient Facility Redesign
• Highly efficient T8 fluorescent lighting is installed in our offices and manufacturing centers. Each T8 fixture uses about half the energy of a regular, non-fluorescent light fixture.
• We installed solar panels that convert 13% of the sunlight they receive into energy, producing approximately 200 kilowatts of energy per day – enough to power 2,000 standard light bulbs a day. Because solar electricity produces zero carbon emissions, we’re also saving about 50 acres of trees each year and because the production of solar energy doesn’t use any water, we’re saving over 150,000 gallons of water each year.
Our solar panel project was made possible in part by a solar installation grant from The Tennessee Solar Institute. The Tennessee Solar Institute is part of the Volunteer State Solar Initiative, a comprehensive solar energy and economic development program that was established using $62.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funding received by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development.
Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Award Number DE-EE0000160.
our certifications
Certified Sourcing
BV-SFICOC-14420
Top Flight is certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) for purchasing paper materials from environmentally responsible and non-controversial sources. This certification was received after undergoing rigorous audits.
SFI, Inc. is an independent, non-profit organization that offers sustainable forestry certifications backed by third-party audits. SFI is the largest single forest standard in the world.
SFI defines sustainable forestry as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by practicing a land stewardship ethic that integrates reforestation and the managing, growing, nurturing, and harvesting of trees for useful products and ecosystem services such as the conservation of soil, air and water quality, carbon, biological diversity, wildlife and aquatic habitat, recreation, and aesthetics.”
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FSC Distributor
BV-COC-157722
Top Flight is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council™, which ensures that our forest products are sourced from responsible and verified harvesters.
FSC® is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization. The FSC® label certifies that forest products are verified from the forest of origin through the supply chain. FSC® is nationally represented in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Certified Sourcing
BVNAUS-PEFC-COC-014421
Top Flight is certified by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification. As the world’s largest forest certification system, PEFC remains the certification system of choice for small, non-industrial private forests, with hundreds of thousands of family forest owners certified to comply with our internationally recognized Sustainability Benchmark.
To date, more than 19,800 companies have obtained PEFC Chain of Custody certification, offering tens of thousands of PEFC-certified products globally.
With alternative forest certification systems available, there are good reasons why so many people are opting for PEFC, which remains the only entirely not-for-profit global certification system.