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iStoreGREEN’s environmental actions become our
customers’ environmental actions. By choosing iStoreGREEN, this is how you help the environment:
• iStoreGREEN, by size, is the largest green business in all of NYC!
• 100% of our electricity comes from renewable sources, certified by “Green-E.org”, the nation's leading renewable energy certification program with the strictest standards
• We are a certified EPA Green Power Partner
• A Co-Gen system utilizes the excess heat generated by the engines to provide heat in other areas of the facility, thereby reducing the reliance on additional natural resources
• We are the first storage facility to have a solar water heater that supplies our hot water
• Our Brooklyn building is recycled; it was a 1908 warehouse that was made into a contemporary self storage space
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• Wood reclaimed from the remodel of our building is used to build benches, desks for the offices of the company, and shelving for storage spaces
• We offer a unique choice of alternative packing materials like biodegradable packing peanuts and shredded paper from the office paper shredder, and items like clean packing boxes are re-used.
• We have a room for customers to put discarded items from storage, which allows certain usable goods go to a local charity, NOT into a dumpster, and then a landfill.
• New customers are invited to take green efforts home with a free eco-tote filled with green products
• We have created a new booklet with ideas for green living, which is given out to customers and members of the local community
• Our marketing materials are printed on recycled paper with soy ink
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