We are committed to cutting waste and encouraging recycling 

In addition to our climate impact, other significant environmental issues are resource use and waste. 

Waste and resource management

Our focus is primarily to use resources efficiently, recycling more and reducing our waste. Our biggest opportunity in this area lies in reducing our paper use by implementing services that cut the need to produce printed materials. Where waste must be disposed of we ensure it is done safely and in compliance with all legislation.

Through a number of Group-wide schemes we recycle paper, mobile phones, redundant IT equipment, printer cartridges and PDAs. We are currently investigating purchasing reconditioned IT equipment, in particular reconditioned printers.

We worked hard to reduce our paper usage, encouraging the use of double sided copying and printing. We also reduced the number of personal printers and scanners used in our offices, replacing them with multifunctional products instead. 

We engage with our employees to encourage behaviour change – raising awareness through internal campaigns including Green Week and encouraging them to improve environmental management in their offices and homes.