The term “sustainability” is a popular buzz word that has only been around since 1987 when it was used in the Brendtland Report for the United Nations. However, Salvajor has embraced sustainability since its inception with their patent on the Salvajor Collector in 1944. The world was at war and raw materials, like steel, were a precious commodity. Flatware was being destroyed at an alarming rate by inferior scrapping methods throughout our military camps. Salvajor’s founder, George C. Hohl Sr., presented his product to the War Production Board and proved the Scrap Collector was a solution to this problem. In turn, the Army gave Salvajor their first order.
As times change, so do society’s priorities. Today, we are burdened with what to do with the immeasurable
amount of food waste going to our nation’s landfills. The Salvajor Collector answers the call with a way to reduce food waste into an ideal form to be composted, at the same time its recirculation of high-volume water, along with a low refresh rate, drastically reduces water consumption. This translates to water and energy savings throughout the entire dish room as it allows for high efficiency, which increases speed, which in turn, allows the dish machine to run at its maximum capacity. This eliminates the waste of water, energy, and chemicals. Salvajor also provides a disposer system that uses energy saving technology. Recently, Salvajor patented an operator sensor that makes their systems and disposers even more environmentally friendly.
Salvajor is striving to preserve our ecosystem and we continually look for methods within the production process to reduce our carbon footprint. Even though aluminum is amongst the most environmentally friendly metals on the planet, Salvajor has done much research and development and have redesigned our disposers so less of this raw material is used. All materials that can be, are recycled, namely the virgin aluminum that is used in the production of our disposers. This aluminum is sent back to our foundry to be recycled. As Styrofoam bans began to sweep the nation, Salvajor began packaging all shipments with bio-degradable cardboard, rather than Styrofoam in 2017. This was just another proactive attempt to put the environment before cost and convenience by eliminating an unfriendly product from entering our landfills.
