Welcome to the Going Green page of the Delta Trust website! We hope you find the information on this page useful and pass it on to others who want some advice on easy ways to go green! A healthy planet
is good for everyone’s bottom line.
Delta Trust & Bank is rewarding our customers who go paperless. When you sign up for paperless statements, we will give you a tree sapling.
If you don’t have a green thumb, Delta Trust will donate the tree sapling to a local city park. Planting a tree is one of the easiest ways to offset your carbon footprint and become carbon neutral. Trees absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and wood, both of which are very useful for humans and animals. Also for every person that signs up for paperless statements, Delta Trust will be saving 10,800 pieces of paper per customer every decade! Call 1-800-831-3587 today to get signed up and make a difference!
Here is a listing of easy ways that you and your family or you and your co-workers can go green.
- Keep metal silverware instead of using plastic
- Encourage re-using water bottles
- Don’t overuse heat or air
- Pay your bills online
- Check faucets to make sure they aren’t leaking
- Use energy saving bulbs
- Turn computers off when not in use
- Turn off printers overnight and on holidays
- Dispose of electronics properly
- Use recycled paper
- Recycle used paper
- Email documents instead of printing them out
- Make an area for saving plastic utensils from take out
You can also go to treehugger.com and sign up for a going green e-newsletter with more tips and advice on what you can be doing.
To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour. Most of them are thrown away.
Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.
Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.
All of these jars are recyclable.
Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
On average, each one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost a ton of trash per person, per year.
Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.
The 17 trees saved by recycling one ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air each year. | 
