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"We are making an effort to reduce our footprint."

Environment

Our own direct environmental impacts are relatively low. We work in modern, efficient buildings and we do not manufacture products ourselves.  

Nevertheless, we make an effort to reduce our footprint. Our Environmental Policy outlines our standards, and we use posters at our offices and distribution centres to encourage employees to contribute to our efforts.

We do not have direct control over the environmental impacts of our suppliers' factories but are working with them to look for opportunities to reduce their impacts. Read more 

Energy Use and Climate Change

Our direct contribution to climate change comes from the energy used to power our offices and distribution centres and the carbon dioxide emissions from business travel.

Efficiency is built into the design of our newest buildings. Our London head office, for example, makes good use of natural light, reducing the amount of artificial lighting required, while at the same time using the building's structure and tinted windows to reduce overheating from sunlight. It uses air-conditioning in parallel with natural ventilation. We have further improved the efficiency of lighting at Pentland sites by introducing light and movement sensors and installing more efficient bulbs.

Our jobs involve travel to manufacturing sites and our global offices, but we avoid flights where possible by using state-of-the-art videoconferencing technology. We have also switched to lower emission vehicles in our company fleet.

Waste

We promote recycling at all of our facilities and have centralised waste bins that help employees to quickly and easily segregate paper, cardboard and plastics.

We also separately collect wood, metal, electronic waste and photocopier and printer toner cartridges. Where possible, we donate unwanted furniture, as well as surplus product, to charity (Read more). We sell unwanted IT equipment to specialist recycling companies and donate the proceeds to charity.

To reduce paper consumption and waste, we encourage employees to 'think before they print' and set all printers to default to double-sided printing.

Water

We take steps to reduce our water consumption, for example by fitting bathroom facilities with water-saving features and replacing bottled water with mains-fed chilled water dispensers.

We try to use natural resources responsibly too and factor this in to our procurement decisions. At our London headquarters, for example, our regular A4 printer paper stock is Forest Stewardship Council certified (from FSC mixed sources). The catering contractor sources Rainforest Alliance certified tea and coffee, Fairtrade bananas and sugar and sustainably sourced fish, and also reduces food miles by using British beef, milk and eggs.

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