1. UPS has 93,736 vehicles, 1,801 facilities and is the ninth largest airline worldwide, but as early as the 1930s, UPS has experimented with environmental innovation and improvements. What else would you expect from a company that started out on bicycles?

2. UPS's alternative fuel vehicle fleet totals more than 2,500 vehicles, the largest fleet in the industry, and since 2000, has driven more than 200 million miles!

3. UPS's alternative fuel vehicle fleet is diverse, with 965 propane-powered vehicles in Canada, 1,093 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles (the largest private fleet in the United States), 381 Hybrid Electric Vehicles, 59 Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tractor-trailers, 45 Ethanol vehicles, two electric vehicles in Manhattan, NY and 27 electric vehicles in Europe.

4. UPS's Delivery Information Acquisition Devices (DIADs) which electronically record delivery information have saved 89 million sheets of paper each year, the equivalent of 7,308 trees annually.

5. UPS has given customers the opportunity to save even more trees by switching to Paperless Billing and Paperless Invoice.  Approximately 124 million sheets of paper could be eliminated annually if UPS customers went paperless with their billing statements and 86 million sheets of paper could be eliminated if international UPS customers converted to Paperless Invoice!

6. UPS has invested more than US$25 million to deploy significant numbers of alternative fuel vehicles in its fleet.

7. UPS has recycled 24.5 million pounds of electronic equipment since 2000.

8. Beyond saving fuel, UPS saves motor oil too. In fact, UPS has saved 330,000 quarts of it since implementing Preventative Maintenance Inspections (PMIs), saving the company almost US$3 million annually.

9. UPS has set up 11,000 computers at four facilities with "sleep" software to conserve energy when not in use, saving US$145,000 annually, as part of the ENERGY STAR Million Monitor Drive program.

10. UPS's Palm Springs, California facility uses 145 solar panels as its primary power source.