May Subaru Eco-Friendly Retailer Newsletter

MAY

2022

How Did You Go Green for Earth Day 2022?

Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, please share with us what you, as a Subaru retailer, did to help preserve and save the future of our planet. You can reply to this e-mail to let us know what activities you became involved in. Who knows...you might just be featured in a future edition of the Subaru Eco-Friendly Retailer Newsletter!

From its beginnings 52 years ago, Earth Day has evolved into a world-wide mission to promote awareness to protect the health of our planet. This year's theme of "Invest in our Planet" focuses on climate change and what solutions can help to mitigate the effects of climate change. This video offers suggestions that we as individuals can easily put into action to do our part, such as:

Support pollinators
Clean up plastic
Swap out kitchen and household products
Plant a tree
Use wildflowers and native plants
Reduce, reuse and recycle in the garden

Delaney Subaru Celebrates Earth Day

Delaney Subaru of Indiana, PA, helped to sponsor a Walk to White's Woods Event. Participants chose their own starting point for the hike. Once they arrived at White's Woods, they received saplings or wildflower seeds to plant when they returned home.

Delaney employees utilized the back of a Certified Pre-Owned Subaru Ascent as their staging area to greet the participants and hand out the tree saplings and wildflower seeds. There were other conservation groups participating in the event as well. The Humane Society even showed up with a dog available for adoption!

Delaney extended their Earth Day activities by setting up the same Subaru Ascent display in their showroom the next day. Customers in the showroom that day received tree saplings and wildflower seeds as well.

Congratulations and thanks to Delaney Subaru for their example and participation in promoting Earth Day 2022.

Congratulations to These Recent Additions to our Subaru Eco-Friendly Certification Family

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Bloomington Subaru of Bloomington, MN.

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Serramonte Subaru of Colma, CA.

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MetroWest of Natick, MA

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Earl Duff Subaru of Kingston, TN.

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Ewing Subaru of Plano TX

Living a “Greener”, Less Wasteful Lifestyle

By Megan Fleck

For my final Eco-Friendly Newsletter contribution (more on that later!), I want to take the time to spotlight one small thing that many of us can do to live a “greener” lifestyle.

Some of you may have noticed “bulk refill markets” opening up in your neighborhoods. These businesses allow customers to bring their own containers to fill with household products such as soap, shampoo, and laundry detergent. By reusing the same containers and purchasing household basics in bulk, customers are able to reduce their plastic waste. Furthermore, many of the products available at these stores are organic and/or locally sourced, further reducing the environmental impact.

According to the EPA, containers and packaging comprise “a major portion” of municipal solid waste, accounting for 82.2 million tons in America in 2018. Of that, 66.2 million tons were paper and paperboard, 41.9 million tons were plastic containers and packaging, and 9.8 million tons were glass containers and packaging. These figures have almost certainly increased since 2018, especially due to shifting recycling policies from Asian countries. I think we all can do a better job of reducing our consumption, and these refill markets are a great place to start.

One of these marketplaces has recently opened near my home in Haddon Township, NJ. Check out the photos below where I explored this new business and bought some household supplies!

You can click the links below to see if there are any “refill markets” in your neighborhood:

Zero Waste Nerd

Litterless

I want to take this opportunity to announce that I have taken a new position on Subaru’s Fleet Team and will no longer be working on the Eco-Friendly Retailer Program. My successor is Danielle Sumislaski, and I am confident she will bring the program to another level and that you will all enjoy working with her. Danielle has worked with many Subaru retailers in the past during her tenures in both the Eastern Region and Customer Advocacy Departments. Please join me in welcoming Danielle to the Eco-Friendly Team. Danielle can be reached at dsumis@subaru.com.

I also want to announce that, while Eco-Friendly will not have a booth presence at the 2022 National Business Conference, I will be there and look forward to seeing some of you there!

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