CSC ServiceWorks’ Lighten the Load™ initiative is reducing college carbon footprints while educating students on the benefits of making sustainable choices in the laundry room. By encouraging campuses to reduce the environmental impact of their properties and facilities and offering them environmentally responsible solutions to accomplish this objective, CSC ServiceWorks is serving an important role to help campuses further their efforts to promote on campus sustainability.
Since the start of the partnership with Carbonfund.org in 2008, CSC ServiceWorks has mitigated over 130 million pounds (60,000 metric tonnes) of CO2 through external carbon reduction projects chosen to meet the voluntary guidelines set forth by Second Nature. This is equivalent to reducing GHG emissions from 147,058,824 miles driven by the average passenger vehicle or the carbon sequestered by 1,554,969 tree seedlings grown over 10 years.