Best Buy recently released a gift card that can be recycled at home – with your paper, cans and bottles.
Because the “Go Green” gift card is made out of paper, it can go right into your recycling bin at home. Easy peasy.
The traditional gift card is made out of polyvinyl chloride, also known as PVC, a material that is not usually accepted in city recycling programs. By using paper, we want to help reduce the amount of plastic that’s thrown out.
‘Tis the season for corn on the cob, deep-fried nachos and bacon on a stick. That’s right, it’s time for the Great Minnesota Get Together (AKA the Minnesota State Fair), and Best Buy will be part of the action in our hometown market.
We’re showcasing an ENERGY STAR® refrigerator, dishwasher and laundry pair in the Eco Experience Building within a mock-up kitchen designed by Natural Built Homes.
The Eco Experience is a one-of-a-kind educational exhibit filled with hands-on activities, demonstrations and resources.
Best Buy is committed to helping our customers live more sustainable lives – reducing their carbon footprint and saving money on their utility bills. But we don’t just sell sustainable products, we manufacture them too. For the first time, one of our private-label products (we call Exclusive Brands) was named an ENERGY STAR Most Efficient product for 2016. It’s our new full-size Insignia refrigerator.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, this distinction from ENERGY STAR highlights products that deliver cutting edge energy efficiency, along with the latest in technological innovation.
With a footprint of 1,400 stores, energy use is an important topic for Best Buy. This summer, we brought in a fresh perspective to help take our carbon reduction to the next level.
Meet Nitin Raviprasad, a graduate student in Engineering Management from Duke University and Best Buy’s first Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellow. Each year, Climate Corps matches more than 120 graduate students with organizations across the country working on energy efficiency projects.
Q: What motivated you to apply for Climate Corps?
It’s summer, and it’s sizzling hot outside. After a long day at work, many of us just want to kick back at home, feeling the chill from our air conditioners.
But how do you make that happen?
You could go the traditional route and blast your air conditioner all day, wasting money, energy and cool air on an empty home. OR, you could opt for an energy efficient air conditioner that helps you save money and live more sustainably (and you won’t be sacrificing quality).
Best Buy has again been recognized for its sustainability efforts by being named to the FTSE4Good Index for the third year in a row. The index includes publicly traded companies with strong environmental, social and governance practices.
FTSE4Good Indices are used by socially responsible investors and other stakeholders to measure sustainability performance. Best Buy received the highest possible score in the categories of Climate Change, Corporate Governance and Social Supply Chain.
We are proud to be recognized as a leader in sustainability by FTSE Group as well as our other recent accolades.
When you toss those cans or boxes into the recycling bin, do you ever wonder what happens to them? We do. At Best Buy, reducing waste is key to our sustainability commitment, and we want to help our customers live more sustainably, too.
That’s why we’re joining Keep America Beautiful and the Ad Council to encourage our customers to recycle the shipping boxes they receive from us. As part of the “I Want To Be Recycled” campaign, we’re printing a new moniker on the boxes containing your .com
It was another banner year for Best Buy’s sustainability work. Today we released our 2016 Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Report, in which we detail the many ways we positively impacted our communities. It’s where we explain our key social and environmental issues, the progress we’ve made during the year and our goals for the future.
Here are a few highlights:
Climate change was front and center. We attended the United Nations global climate negotiations (COP21), signed onto the American Business Act for Climate Change and reset our absolute carbon reduction goal to 45 percent by 2020.
Remote control. Flashlight. Digital camera. Kid’s toy. Calculator.
All of these items require batteries, the little energy sources that have become an integral part of our lives. We rely on them so much that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that nearly 3 billion dry-cell batteries are purchased in the United States each year.
As our reliance grows, sustainability is increasingly becoming a focus area for battery manufacturers. Batteries are made to last longer and use less energy.
Take the Eco Cell USB rechargeable battery, for instance.
Best Buy’s Geek Squad Academy summer camp is visiting a tribal nation for the first time as part of the federal government’s ConnectHome initiative.
About 135 students between the ages of 10 and 18 are participating in the two-day camp this week (June 14-15) at Durant High School in Durant, Oklahoma, home of the Choctaw Indian Nation. They’re getting hands-on tech experience and learning 21st-century skills that can make a difference in their future education and career choices.
In environmental awards season, we don’t talk about who wore it best, but who’s doing the right thing for the planet and society. Along with many of our peers, Best Buy has earned time in the spotlight from several noteworthy organizations this spring.
Best Buy placed 27th on the 2016 Newsweek Green Rankings of the top 500 U.S. companies. Up eight spots overall from last year, we retained the second spot among U.S. retailers and first among specialty retailers. Based on research from Corporate Knights Capital and HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Inc.,
It’s critical for teens to develop tech skills that will set them up for future career success. That’s why, once a year, the Best Buy Foundation provides grants to local nonprofits, schools and libraries to support hands-on, experiential tech education programs for underserved teens in communities where we do business.
Well, that time of year is here. We’re now accepting applications for Best Buy Community Grants.
If you’re an organization that has a proven track record of helping underserved teens gain 21st-century tech skills during out-of-school hours, now is the time to apply.