At Field Environmental Instruments (FEI), every day is Earth Day.

Whether recycling printed paper for use as note paper, or re-using boxes and packing materials for shipments and interoffice transfers, there’s a company-wide desire to be responsible stewards of the environment.

At FEI’s Chicago and Portland branch locations, employees take home glass and plastic bottles for recycling. All FEI locations use recycled boxes and packaging materials for shipments. FEI Minneapolis also reuses corrugated boxes and bubble wrap (the office has never bought a single roll!) for shipping and participates in a weekly recycling program for paper and boxes that are not reusable.

FEI Seattle re-uses packing material from a nearby gun range in addition to using recycled ink cartridges. Instead of Styrofoam or plastic cups, FEI Seattle employees use reusable water bottles. In FEI Atlanta, employees recycle calibration gas and solution bottles, and also reuse its boxes. There are also plans to start a battery recycling program at all FEI locations. FEI is committed to being active locally while thinking globally.

FEI's commitment to the environment happens quietly behind the scenes. We are devoting this page to telling some of those stories. Thank you for reading!

WE REUSE CARDBOARD BOXES TO REDUCE WASTE

Recycling is regarded as good for the environment. But repurposing, or reusing, recyclable items can be a more efficient and cost-saving use of resources.

The M. Mallinger Company, a sister company of Field Environmental Instruments, Inc., repurposes cardboard boxes, paper goods, pallets, packing supplies, and other items than can be used more than once. Instead of being recycled – or worse, being hauled away as trash – boxes and other goods are used again.

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FEI LOS ANGELES REDUCES DAILY ENERGY USE

A program run by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has enabled Field Environmental Instruments’ Los Angeles branch to cut energy between 30-40 percent.

LADWP’s Commercial Direct Install (CDI) has provided free energy and water efficiency upgrades to approximately 21,000 businesses in Los Angeles. Customers, including retail shops charter schools, warehouses, and small grocery stores averaged an estimated energy savings of 237.7 gigawatt-hours per year. That’s equivalent to removing 39,000 homes from the power grid or reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 89,960 metric tons.

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EPA START CONTRACT

The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to “protect human health and the environment,” including initiatives that ensure all Americans have clean air, land, and water. 

Field Environmental Instruments’ ongoing role with Tetra Tech, a California-based provider of consulting and engineering services, helps the agency achieve those goals. FEI provides environmental monitoring instrumentation for the EPA’s Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team (START) contract for Region 5. The region includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, plus 35 tribal nations.

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COMMUNITY AIR MONITORING PLAN (CAMP)

After wildfires destroyed vast tracts of land and numerous structures in California in 2018, there was a need to monitor the air for both dust and contaminants. Residents were understandably concerned about ongoing air quality issues.

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NARRAGANSETT BAY PROJECT

In 2018, Field Data Solutions, a sister company of Field Environmental Instruments, was tasked with a job at Naval Station Newport on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The work entailed monitoring turbidity in the bay while a contractor removed contaminated sediments and rehabilitated rotting pilings supporting a concrete aircraft carrier pier.

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PROVECTUS-ORS SLEEVES, AN EASIER WAY TO REMEDIATE GROUNDWATER

Field Environmental is a distributor of an active remedial treatment called Provectus ORS-sleeves. These use an Oxygen Release Substrate is a proprietary source of dissolved oxygen plus inorganic nutrients and buffer to enhance the aerobic degradation of groundwater contaminants. Most commonly, these contaminants include petroleum hydrocarbons such as jet fuel and semi-volatile inorganics. These materials will react with water over the course of three to six months to release oxygen.

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