To the average shopper, JCPenney is the place to go for great styles at compelling prices. But to industry insiders, JCPenney is an eco-leader, ranking as a 63 out of 500 companies on Newsweek's second annual list of "The Greenest Big Companies in America".
JCPenney with approximately 1,100 stores, 14 logistics facilities , its physical footprint across the country is significant. JCPenney is committed to reducing our environmental footprint through operational efficiency measures including energy and waste management.
In 2009, JCPenney launched an energy strategy with a goal of reducing energy consumption per square foot by 20% by 2015 (based on a 2008 baseline) and at the end of 2012, JCPenney had achieved a 16.5% reduction. As of October 2013, 500 JCPenney buildings had earned the ENERGY STAR label and the company had been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with a string of ENERGY STAR awards.
JCPenney contracts the transportion of millions of goods from suppliers to logistics facilities to stores and customers, and we do this with maximum efficiency. By optimizing transport loads, using its fleet to backhaul materials, and designing efficient e-commerce shipping strategies, JCPenney ensure that its costs and carbon emissions are minimized.
The truck fleet that we lease to pick up JCPenney shipments from ports in southern California includes 55 clean diesel 1) trucks. Additionally, JCPenney saved an estimated five million gallons of diesel fuel by transporting almost half of our domestic shipping loads from consolidation facilities to regional logistics facilities through intermodal rail in 2012.
Recyclables from stores are transported to JCPenney's logistics facilities where they are sorted and then sent to processing facilities. In 2012, JCPenney recycled 80,816 tons of recyclable materials through main recycling streams for cardboard, plastic films and bags, hangers, mixed paper, metals and electronic waste.
1) What is clean diesel?
Clean diesel is the new generation of diesel made up of a three-part system that combines cleaner diesel fuel, advanced engines and effective emissions control technology. This new system ensures that clean diesel engines will continue to play a dominant role in the future while helping meet energy security, greenhouse gas and clean air objectives around the world.
