TSYS BELIEVES SUSTAINABILITY IS GOOD BUSINESS
One of Aflac’s green initiative’s, Sty-
rofoam recycling, has already spread to another local company. TSYS chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Phil Tomlinson, heard about Aflac’s densifier and put out a memo to follow suit. “It is a growing corporate trend,” says
Chip Torbert, assistant vice president/ quality, of TSYS sustainability efforts, “and we are clearly involved in that.” Te paper-intensive credit card proces-
Aflac employees Donnie Dickson and Demetrice Witherspoon load the light bulb crusher, added to Aflac’s sustainability program in 2012. It prevents the mercury from light bulbs being thrown into landfills.
food from the 2,000 meals served daily at the Paul Amos Campus is put through a digestor, which eliminates a good portion of the 60,000 pounds of food waste that used to be sent to the landfill. Styrofoam cups are turned into hard plastic aſter
being put through the company’s densifier. A green subcommittee, which reports
to Aflac’s board of directors several times a year, is continuing to seek new initiatives to save the planet and save the company money.
sor has been involved in recycling, energy conservation and environmental activities since the early ‘90s. Not only did they recy- cle 2.9 million pounds of paper last year, they recycled more than 56,000 pounds of carpet and used their densifier to recycle about 6,300 pounds of Styrofoam. TSYS has also cut its energy use. Lights-
out Fridays have been in effect since 2008. In the company’s buildings where there is a lot of natural light, the electric lights are turned off. According to Torbert energy use is reduced on that day by about 15 percent. He says not only does the initiative save
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photo courtesy Aflac
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