WRD Environmental Results Gallery, Stewardship

Tellabs, Naperville, IL

Tellabs supplies wireless providers worldwide with reliable and scalable mobile Internet solutions.  Its sustainability priorities are to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions with more energy-efficient products and operations, manage materials and waste responsibly through a sustainable supply chain, strengthen communities where employees live and work, and proactively communicate its plans and progress.

Goals

• Improve water quality of the ponds, which take on all of the sites’ stormwater, sediment and nutrient runoff
• Demonstrate land stewardship by maintaining quality wildlife habitat   

Sample Results

• Controlled invasive plant species and increased native species 
• Improved water pH, and achieved more balanced and stable dissolved oxygen levels
• Minimized herbicide applications by improving native species competition

Learn more about sustainability at Tellabs.