Our Approach to Environmental Sustainability

Sustainability is a critical part of the modern supply chain, reducing impact on the environment, while generating long-term cost savings from improvements in efficiency. Hollingsworth puts priority on our sustainability initiatives, which have proven successful in recycling hundreds of tons of materials each year.

Hollingsworth Goal:  Reduce our carbon footprint by 25% by 2025.

Building More Sustainable Supply Chains

Hollingsworth improves sustainability in our supply chain management and other services by:

• Investing resources and time in reforestation projects
• Fostering a recycling and upcycling culture throughout the organization and encouraging employees to implement these habits at home
• Utilizing renewable energy to support our facilities with programs like MiGreenPower with DTE

In 2023, Hollingsworth’s Michigan facilities had over 5,000 MWh of electricity attributed to renewable energy.

Reducing Carbon Emissions

• 2,369 tons of CO₂ equivalent avoided
• Reduction of nearly 241,800 gallons of gasoline CO₂ emissions
• Carbon sequestered by 35,532 tree seedlings grown over 10 years

A corporate initiative of obtaining ISO 14001 certification at all site operations. This certification is the international standard for an effective Environmental Management System (EMS).

Benefits of being ISO 14001 include, but are not limited to:

• Reduced energy and material costs — by choosing renewable energy sources and committing to less in-house waste, Hollingsworth’s operations will become more efficient and cost-effective
• Reduced waste management costs — with less waste being produced, we can reduce our costs of waste removal and off-site processing are cut significantly
• Ongoing compliance with legislation — ensuring that Hollingsworth meets environmental targets set by both local and national government

Hollingsworth measures our success not only on economic gain but also in preserving the environment and giving back to our local communities.

Energy

Hollingsworth has engaged in many energy savings programs across our U.S. locations and has an ongoing commitment to look for energy reducing initiatives and reducing our carbon footprint. We achieve these objectives through education and working closely with local utilities. Our recent achievements have been in the area of converting to energy efficient lighting. Over the past three years, Hollingsworth has converted 94% of its industrial forklifts from propane gas to electrically powered energy saving units.

Recycling

Hollingsworth’s vision is to be 100% landfill free. Our commitment to that vision includes recycling our corrugate materials, plastics, paper and where possible sending its non-recyclable material to cogeneration facilities. Hollingsworth recycled over 12,000 tons of recycled corrugate and plastic in 2023.  These greening initiatives have been implemented company wide and we are well on our way to accomplishing our goals in 2025.

Automotive Sustainability

Hollingsworth is making a positive impact on the environment with our core return center.

At our core return center, we receive used auto parts that are oftentimes covered in dirt and oil. We clean and recycle the metal to create new parts or rebuild the component and resell it. Through this process, our products stay out of landfills and we conserve resources.

About 50% of an original starter is recovered in the remanufacturing process. Rebuilt engines require 50% of the energy and 67% of the labor that is required to produce new engines.

Using remanufactured parts can result in:

• Annual savings in the U.S. of 8.2 million gallons of crude oil from steel manufacturing, 51,500 tons of iron ore, and 6,000 tons of copper and other metals.
• Annual raw materials saved by remanufacturing worldwide would fill 155,000 railroad cars, forming a train 1,993 miles long
• Annual energy savings by remanufacturing worldwide equals the electricity generated by five nuclear power plants or 10,774,000 barrels of crude oil, which corresponds to a fleet of 233 oil tankers