Green Living
Fresh Madison Market purchased a cardboard baler and is baling not only the store’s cardboard boxes into 500 lb bales for recycling, but also those from the other building’s tenants.
The energy efficient coolers installed in-store are saving 75-80% of normal cooler electricity costs.
The store is also being heated and cooled by a refrigeration rack system, a condensing unit using water to heat and cool. The excess energy provided by this unit spills over to the other tenants in the building helping to reduce their energy costs as well.
Analogies of savings that the coolers are supplying:
- These coolers save enough electricity to power 14 homes!
- These coolers reduce CO2 emissions equivalent to taking 21 cars off of the road!
- If all stores nationwide replaced open door coolers with these coolers, there would be enough energy to power 1.3 million homes!
- We could save enough electricity to eliminate 9.4 coal fired power plants if all stores nationwide replaced open door coolers with these coolers!
- The reduction of CO2 emissions would be the equivalent of taking TWO MILLION cars off of the road if all stores nationwide replaced open door coolers with coolers like these!
- The CO2 produced by burning 55,000 railcars full of coal is the equivalent of CO2 emissions saved if all stores nationwide replaced their open door coolers with these!
