We are committed to managing and reducing the environmental impact of our day-to-day operations by continually investigating and employing initiatives across the Group in areas where we have direct control. Where possible we also look to influence our indirect impact (e.g. that of our suppliers and customers).
Reporting and management
The overall responsibility for Environmental management falls under the Group Technical Director with day-to-day responsibility falling to the Group’s CSR Manager, whom we appointed in 2008.
The CSR Manager works closely with the Group’s Environmental Steering Group (ESG) that meets quarterly. Along with site-based Environmental Action teams the Steering Group is focused on reducing our environment impacts, and assuring the ongoing sustainability of our business. In addition, the Group Technical Director holds an annual UK Environmental Conference which provides a platform to share knowledge and best practice across our operations.
In recognition of the hard work the sites carry out to reduce their environmental impact we will again be rewarding one of our sites the Group Environmental Award for its contribution at the Group’s GEF annually.
Environmental priorities
Following the annual review of our policy in 2008 our main environmental impacts and priorities were identified as:
- Energy
- Water and waste water
- Waste
- Packaging
- Transport
Working in collaboration with our customers and key suppliers, detailed policies and strategies have been developed for each of these key areas. Our approach focuses on the optimisation of existing processes and practices to deliver environmental and resource efficiency benefits, together with the piloting of new processes and practices to deliver step change improvements to the future good our business.