Environmental Policy

The Company is committed to integrating environmental best practice into all its business activities. The Company accepts its environmental responsibilities and recognises its obligation to reduce the impact of business activities on the environment. The Company will achieve this through a policy of continual improvement in environmental performance.

To achieve these objectives, the Company will:

• Adopt best practice and assist, where possible, in developing innovative solutions to the environmental issues and problems facing its sector;
• Conduct its activities in full knowledge of, and compliance with, the requirements of applicable environmental legislation and Approved Codes of Practice;
• Assess the environmental impact of all current and likely future operations, and fully integrate environmental considerations and objectives into its business decisions;
• Minimise consumption of natural resources, including energy, water and raw materials, as far as economically practicable;
• Reduce the production of waste and develop effective waste management and recycling procedures, as well as disposing of unavoidable waste in such a way as to minimise its environmental impact;
• Develop and implement integrated logistics policies, and encourage the use of environmentally friendly means of transport by staff;
• Encourage awareness of, and commitment to, improved environmental performance amongst suppliers an customers.