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Fleet Operations
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- Keep fleet vehicles tuned up, regularly check and correct tire pressure.
- Pressure test fuel caps to ensure seal.
- Avoid overfilling or "topping off" gas tanks on fleet vehicles.
- Avoid engine idling when making deliveries or customer rounds.
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- Turn off delivery vehicles during loading, unloading and while in lines.
- Refuel fleet vehicles after 6 p.m.
- Reschedule discretionary activities, such as equipment/vehicle degreasing.
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Staff Issues & Work Styles
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- Reduce travel: promote on-site lunches, telecommuting, compressed work schedules and teleconferencing.
- Promote biking to work, carpooling and transit use.
- Encourage employees to maintain their cars and reduce vehicle travel through trip chaining
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- Postpone discretionary auto trips.
- Support telecommuting.
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Building Maintenance / Custodial Operations
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- Encourage use of low VOC paints, stains and custodial care products.
- Control emissions by tightly sealing all solvents, properly disposing rags with solvent waste and using substitutes for solvents where possible.
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- Reschedule discretionary maintenance, such as painting, varnishing, and stripping.
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Grounds Maintenance
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- Reduce or eliminate the use of gas-powered yard equipment (e.g., blowers, trimmers, weeders), which have high emissions.
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- Reschedule landscape operations that utilize gas-powered mowers and equipment.
- Reschedule parking lot/driveway paving or painting lane stripes.
- Reschedule building and grounds painting, varnishing and stripping.
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Staff and Customer Awareness
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- Promote your summer pollution reduction strategies through staff newsletters, web pages, email and bulletin boards.
- Underscore your commitment to ozone reduction through a memo or letter from your owner, president or CEO.
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- Share information on Clean Air Action Days announcements.
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