Sustainability
Ocean State Job Lot is driven to ensure its sustainability efforts will help create a higher quality future for our customers, associates and communities. Our responsibility as a company is to create less impact on the environment by focusing on ways to mitigate waste, rely heavily on renewable energy, and become involved within our communities to offer support and provide the tools to clean up our environment.
Ocean State Job Lot has a long-term goal of being a Net Zero company, which means we have goals related to waste, energy and emissions.
As of 2021, we are proud to announce that Ocean State Job Lot is a Net Zero Waste company – this means our recycling efforts outweigh our disposal efforts to landfills and we continue to improve our recycling efforts to one day send nothing to landfills.
Through our Renewable Energy initiative, we have plans to become a Net Zero Energy company by generating more renewable energy than the energy we consume. Solar projects have been introduced to the rooftops of a few of our stores. We are currently in the process of expanding these projects to other locations.
Our long-term goal includes plans to become a Net Zero Emissions company that will be achieved with an overall balance of gas emissions produced and gas emissions taken out of the atmosphere. We continue to strive to keep new emissions being produced into the atmosphere as low as possible.
With continuous ventures evolving within our organization, we look forward to bettering the lives of those on our planet.
Ocean State Job Lot has been honored for its efforts as a recipient of a 2022 and 2023 Sustainability Leadership Award from the Business Intelligence Group. The award highlights organizations that make sustainability a prominent part of their business goals and mission.
“We are thrilled to be honored as a
Sustainability Leader,”
said Harry Oakley, Director of Energy, Sustainability, Procurement & Corporate Facilities at Ocean State Job Lot.
“Ocean State Job Lot prides itself as a company that cares about people and the environment. This award is a much-deserved recognition of our team’s commitment to doing all we can to reduce our business’ carbon footprint and to hopefully inspire others in our position to do the same. We look forward to creating even more opportunities to make a positive impact on the planet.”
