Triton Stormwater Solutions Achieves Carbon Neutral Certification
Triton Stormwater Solutions (Triton), a manufacturer of eco-friendly and highly efficient stormwater chambers, has been approved as a carbon neutral product through third party certification.
"At Triton we want to be environmental leaders and take stormwater production to a whole other level," explains Joe Miskovich, president, Triton Stormwater Solutions. "Reusing stormwater itself is an environmental effort but what good is it if you are producing it in a factory that is emitting more greenhouse gasses" You're just trading one environmental concern for another. "
The cradle-to-consumer life cycle study showed that the total CO2 reduction at facilities using the system have a 15%-30% reduction in Energy/Green House Gas year after year. The carbon neutral certification gives Triton products an additional two LEED points, the U.S. Green Building Council's nationally-accepted benchmark for green building, bringing the potential points for using a Triton product up to 18 points.
"This certification will help companies like Wal-Mart and Lowe's, which have accepted Triton as an approved product for its contractors or engineers, to become even more environmentally friendly," explains Miskovich.
In addition to being a good corporate citizen, there are business advantages as well. States such as California are mandating the need for companies to reduce co2 emissions and energy needs by using carbon neutral products such as Triton and to not exceed their carbon credit allotment. In addition,
Triton is now registered as a federally approved green carbon neutral product and approved for use in all government owned or leased buildings and properties, which mandate 15-30% reduction in greenhouse gasses.
To obtain certification, Triton underwent a complete life cycle analysis in which the certification team went through every facet of the manufacturing process from the farming of the soy bean used to harvest the soy oil to make the product to the manufacturing of the raw material into the chamber all the way up to the energy used to get the product to the site and installed and how the end user will use the finished product itself.
"This product was one of best products I've seen," says Mike Dolkowski, president of Carbon Credit Environmental Services, which tested the product. "The Triton material itself is made out of bio-plastics not petroleum. It takes less time to install so it uses less of the diesel construction equipment that emits greenhouse gas. It can be carried by two people rather than a machine. Once installed, the system itself is used to collect water and reuse it to water plants or flush toilets, saving energy by not sending water to a wastewater treatment plant. This product actually improves its carbon footprint."
Carbon Credit Environmental Services is part of a growing trend towards companies monitoring their carbon footprint and offsetting co2 emissions to utilize monies for environmentally-friendly projects. Last year, the company helped the Detroit Lions football team hold a carbon neutral game by calculating the emissions from all activities that went into making the stadium active for the game from the team traveling to the site to the electricity used to power the concession stands. The team offset that emission by doing an offstudy to plant trees in Ecuador to reforest the rainforest.
About Triton Stormwater Solutions
Established in 2007 and headquartered in Brighton, Mich., Triton Stormwater Solutions manufactures the next generation of stormwater chamber management systems. In virtually every metric that matters to developers, municipal planners and engineers, Triton's stormwater chambers offer greater advantages and design flexibility over traditional systems. Triton's proprietary design and patented construction offers larger-capacity, lighter-weight, easier-to-install stormwater chambers that are more than 50 percent stronger than traditional products. Triton is also environmentally friendly, manufacturing materials from the same soy-based resin that has been in use for more than 50 years in the heavy equipment and automotive industries.
SOURCE: Triton Stormwater Solutions