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Our Commitment to the Environment
Walnut Hollow®’s success comes from producing quality products, offering excellent service, appreciating our employees, fostering a safe work environment, and practicing a sensitive attitude toward our natural resources. We are strongly committed to preserving the natural resources that allow us to produce the fine quality products we make.
- Since the inception of Walnut Hollow® in 1972, the company’s owners and employees have been strongly committed to preserving natural resources through its raw materials consumption practices, production processes, recycling activities, and community involvement. In 2007 Dave Ladd was named the 2007 Conservationist Lifetime Achievement Award winner by Gathering Waters Conservancy for his dedication to environmental sustainability in business as well as decades of untiring land stewardship in his native Iowa County and across the state. In 2006, the Company received the John Brogan Award, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources highest form of environmental recognition. John E. Brogan, former member and chair of the Natural Resources Board, initiated the award in 1982. Walnut Hollow® shares this prestigious accomplishment with respected organizations including Trout Unlimited (Wisconsin Chapter), Snap-On Tools Corporation, Green Bay Packaging, 3M Menomonie, and John Deere Horicon Works.
- The Ladd's (owners and founders of Walnut Hollow®) have planted more than 300,000 trees and shrubs on personal property in the surrounding area.
- Whenever possible, raw material is harvested from plantation and managed woodlands for the manufacture of our home décor items and wood surfaces.
- Our manufacturing process is state-of-the-art lean manufacturing which allows for a minimum of waste and an increase in operating efficiencies. Wood waste and sawdust are recycled to produce steam to heat the roughmill facility and lumber drying kilns. The premium wood waste is separated and sold as livestock bedding. No wood waste ends up in landfills.
- Walnut Hollow® has a unique sawdust recovering system whereby sawdust and chips from the manufacturing process are vacuumed at each work station to a central silo storage system. As a result, the manufacturing operation is not detrimental to the health of our employees or the environment.
- Shipping cartons are made from 50% recycled fiber and all packing material is biodegradable (cornstarch peanuts).
- Employees of the company participate in the State of Wisconsin’s Adopt-A-Highway Program. Each spring, company volunteers pick up litter along the designated Walnut Hollow® highway section.
- David Ladd has served on three Land Stewardship Councils formed by Tommy Thompson (former Governor of the State of Wisconsin) for the purchase of natural resource and recreational lands. Mr. Ladd has also served on the Board of Directors of Wisconsin’s Natural Resource Foundation, the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, and Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association.
- David Ladd was instrumental in starting / financing Tree City USA for the City of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. In addition, he has received distinguished service awards from the Wisconsin Urban Forestry Council and the Soil and Water Conservation Society.
- Walnut Hollow® supports and monetarily contributes to important conservation organizations such as Trees for Tomorrow, the National Arbor Day Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, Whitetails Unlimited, and Trout Unlimited.
- The company partners with Alliant Energy on shared savings programs that help to conserve energy. Grants have also been received from Wisconsin Focus on Energy for energy saving programs adopted by the company.
- Our catalog is printed on 10% Post Consumer Fiber meeting EPA and FTC guidlines for recycled coated paper.
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