Environment & Sustainability

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE

We demonstrate environmental responsibility in various ways, including: Continually reducing our carbon footprint with the consolidation of facilities

Using green janitorial products Replacing standard light bulbs with LED bulbs that have a longer life and use less energy

Repurposing existing furniture whenever possible instead of buying new

Recycling at all locations across our entire footprint

Sustainable Practices

We are focused on sustainability throughout our everyday business practices by:

Using technology that provides for a paperless environment and transactional efficiencies eCycling old technology equipment (31 tons to date) to avoid filling landfills

Using bottle filling stations to save 50,943 plastic bottles from entering landfills

Having a management-led Green Team Committee focused on bank-wide sustainability

“I did not know that different things can be recycled at different spots in town. I thought that glass wasn’t recycled in my town. It is, but only at one spot. So, I organized my neighbors to collect glass at my house so it can all be taken to a recycle center since our town does not allow it to be put in the recycle bin.”

– Taylor Ridenour, Customer Service Associate | Longview, WA

Ecochallenge

Employees teamed up for the Heritage Helps Ecochallenge where they turned intention into action for environmental and social good. From June 6-30, they created new habits by selecting actions that complimented their lifestyle and passions—like reducing their carbon footprint, replacing a meal with meatless options, swapping to reusable drinkware and more!

In just one month, 115 employees and 26 teams completed 3,306 actions, resulting in:

7,279 gallons of water saved

2,501 pounds of CO2 saved

2,376 plastic items not sent to the landfill

645 miles not traveled by car

246 meatless or vegan meals consumed

4,102 minutes spent learning 100 pounds of paper saved