Embracing sustainability: Our journey towards a greener future
In a bid to do our bit towards helping combat climate change and sustain our environment for the future, we are working very hard across our organisation, and with our clients and suppliers, so that together we can reduce waste, increase recycling, reduce gas and electricity consumption and offset our carbon emissions.
We are incredibly proud of our sustainability values and wanted to share some of our sustainability initiatives with you.
Reducing deliveries
Another area we’re focusing on is reducing deliveries. We understand that transportation has a significant impact on the environment, so we’ve introduced Delivery Environment Impact Reports. By providing customers with their delivery statistics over a fixed period to demonstrate their projected CO2 savings, we hope to encourage a reduction in deliveries and contribute to a greener planet together.
Remote meetings
As much as we love seeing our customers face-to-face, we’ve realised the enormous environmental potential of remote meetings. By adopting virtual meetings we will save upwards of 200,000 business miles a year. That’s an opportunity that is too good and green to miss.
Solar panels
We really want to reduce our consumption of fossil fuel generated electricity, so we are currently working on solar panel projects at two of our sites. This will generate upwards of 128,000kWh of clean energy a year, making a significant dent in our fossil fuel consumption.
Electric vehicles
When it comes to transportation, we’re fully on board with the electric vehicle (EV) revolution. Currently 46% of our company cars are now either fully electric or hybrid and going forward all new company cars will be. To support this transition we’re also installing EV charging points at our sites for staff with EVs. What’s more, all of our vans are Euro 6 compliant - the most environmentally friendly diesel vehicles available.
Cutting carbon emissions
Caring for our climate and planet by cutting our carbon emissions is a top priority for us. That’s why we partnered with Carbon Footprint to assess and calculate our emissions. But we didn’t stop there; we took action by investing in three fantastic community projects. We’re supporting socially deprived communities in India with improved cooking stoves, helping to prevent unplanned deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and generating clean, renewable electricity from wind power in south-east Uruguay.
Read more about our carbon emissions initiatives.
Sustainable product choices
Helping our customers to make eco-friendly purchasing decisions is in our DNA. We have more than 3,800 sustainable products available online, which we’ve made super easy to find using our eco filter. We’ve also produced a downloadable eco essentials brochure, containing our top 450 sustainable products, tailor-made for our customers to ensure making the environmentally friendly choice is as easy as possible.
Download our eco essentials brochure.
We truly believe that by working together we can make a real difference in the fight against climate changes. Thank you for joining us on this incredible journey towards a greener and more sustainable future. Let’s keep making the world a better place, one eco-friendly choice at a time.
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