autozone green - environmental responsibility
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As AutoZone grows, we know our responsibility to the environment grows, and we take it very seriously. From our stores, to our distribution centers, to our transportation fleet, we do all we can to meet the needs of the present while protecting our future.TRANSCRIPT
Green at AutoZone
Where We’ve Been and
Where We’re Going
AutoZone produced our first Environmental
Responsibility report in December 2008
• Our Stores
• Our Distribution Centers and Truck
Maintenance Facilities
• Our Transportation Fleet
• Our Commercial Business Vehicles
WHERE WE’VE BEEN…
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STORES SERVICED BY SAFETY-KLEEN IN 2010
Locations – AutoZone Stores
Locations - SK Service Area
OUR STORES…
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Safety-Kleen Re-Refinery
East Chicago, IN
SAFETY-KLEEN’S EAST CHICAGO, IN RE-REFINERY
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PROVIDING GREEN BENEFITS TO AUTOZONE
By the end of 2010, Safety-
Kleen will have collected
approximately 8.5 million
gallons of used oil from
AutoZone
Total impact of Safety-Kleen
closed-loop recycling of used
oil for AutoZone
Prevention of 66,096
metric tons of greenhouse
gas emissions
Equivalent to:
7,433,477 gallons of gasoline
consumed
2,699,012 propane cylinders
used for home BBQs
1,712,953 tree seedlings grown
for 10 years
152,876 barrels of oil consumed
12,644 passenger vehicles
833 tanker trucks worth of
gasoline
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In 2010, AutoZone will have recycled
approximately 8 million used lead-acid
batteries through our 8 DCs.
OUR STORES…
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13,000 tons
of scrap
metal
OUR STORES…
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OUR STORES & DCs…
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In 2010, recycled approximately 22,000
tons of cardboard.
(Enough to SAVE 300,000 trees)
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780 tons
of stretch
wrap
885,000
wood
pallets
OUR DCs…
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Our Transportation Fleet
AutoZone utilizes an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) which provides heat, air and voltage inside the truck leading to an 80% reduction in idle-time gallons of fuel and related emissions
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Utilize tractor and trailer air fairings resulting in a
one-tenth and three-tenth mpg increase
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Testing Super Single Tires on tractors – 4 vs. 8
– resulting in a four-tenth mpg increase or 15%
improvement
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• Our fleet employs advanced mobile technology that
enables real-time visibility and enhanced performance
management of driver behavior
• Our fleet is managed via an advanced freight logistics
tool designed to reduce operating miles and equipment
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Packaging Initiative
• Collaborate with vendors in a focused area
• Main areas of review:
– Excess packaging materials/printing
– Box cutter-free designs
– Pallet configurations
• Ultimate goal is to reach entire vendor base
• Participation and proposals from all vendors
welcome…no need to wait for a workshop!
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Packaging Initiative: Inner Pack
Material / Wall Thickness
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Packaging InitiativePerforation / Outer Carton Design
• Eliminate use of cutter blades
• More efficient put-away for DC AutoZoners
• Eliminate risk of damaging product with cutter blades
Best practice – perforated box. Product is easy to access
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Packaging Initiative – Progress
• Over 40 vendors have participated in an
AutoZone workshop
• Have implemented changes for cutter-free and
reduced packaging materials with
approximately 30% of those vendors
• Total annualized savings in
paper/cardboard/plastic is 74,000 lbs to date
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Additional Opportunities
Is the label in the right location?
Should there be two labels? Outer-case graphics:
consider for elimination
Waste created from non-value-added packaging material
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CALIFORNIA TRANSPARENCY in SUPPLY CHAINS ACT of 2010
• Beginning January 1, 2012, every retailer and manufacturer doing
business in California and having more than $100MM in annual gross
receipts must:
– disclose its efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from its
supply chain
• The disclosure must include the extent to which the company:
– uses third party verification to evaluate and address human trafficking
and slavery risks in its product supply chain
– conducts independent unannounced audits of its suppliers
– provides company employees and management training on mitigating
risks of slavery and trafficking in supply chains
– maintains internal accountability for employees and contractors failing to
meet company standards on slavery and trafficking, and
The exclusive remedy for non-compliance is an injunction from the
CA AG20
AUTOZONE ENVIRONMENTAL
RESPONSIBILTY REPORT December 2010
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NEXT STEPS
Working with AAIA to Tell the Aftermarket’s “Green” Story
• Increase awareness of the aftermarket’s green
contributions among key audiences, i.e., state and
federal legislators and government agencies, Wall Street
and main street
• Utilize AutoZone template for total industry lobbying
effort
• Examples based on AAIA member survey:
– 95% (primarily repair shops and parts stores) recycle used oil
– 98% recycle batteries
– 58% of companies surveyed manufacture, distribute, use or sell
re-manufactured parts22