GENERAL STATEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT POLICY
Our Policy is to ensure continual improvement of our environmental management procedures. We recognise that our activities have an impact on the environment. In all our activities, working practices and business relationships we are committed to protecting, conserving and enhancing all aspects of the environment over which we have control or can influence.
To deliver our Environmental Management Policy, we will:
- Ensure that all our activities comply fully with environmental legislation and best
- practice
- Set practical objectives for continuous improvement
- Reduce resource use and re-use or re-cycle materials wherever possible
- Use information and communication technology (ICT) to avoid excessive volumes of paper waste
- Encourage the use of environmentally friendly materials when advising clients
- Maintain information about the environmental impact of the goods and services we supply and make this available to enable our customers to make informed choices
- Understand the sensitivities of our customers, including the pressures of growing and changing statutory and public concern about environmental issues, and assist them in complying with environmental best practice
- Identify opportunities to reduce any environmental impact of our activities at an early stage and adopt these changes where appropriate
- Communicate our environmental performance both within the Company and outside
- Raise staff awareness of environmental issues and promote individual good practice
- Require our suppliers to provide goods and services with the minimum adverse environmental impact, and give preference to environmentally aware suppliers whenever possible
- Ensure that our purchases of goods and materials comply fully with UK government and EU legislation and recognised environmental best practice
- Take all reasonable steps to prevent pollution of both our local and wider environments
- Employ sound waste management practices, including compliance with the requirements of the Site Waste Management Plans Regulations
- Continue to review our environmental performance, and strive to respond to issues as they arise
- Support our local authority’s green travel objectives.
