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As a service industry, Rullion’s business is low risk in relation to environmental issues, as we do not manufacture any goods or produce energy; nor do we use raw materials or transport goods. However, we are fully aware of our duty of care, as defined in the Environmental Policy Protection Act 1990, when disposing of waste and we have an effective Environmental Policy (on which all staff are regularly briefed and updated) and actively take steps to minimise our environmental impacts, including the following: -
We actively minimise waste by recycling all waste paper, plastic drinking cups, cans and toner/printer cartridges. Recycled paper is always used and double-sided printing is utilised, where possible, to minimise wastage of paper. -
We are actively moving towards a ‘paperless office’ -
We actively minimise vehicle miles and traffic pollution by encouraging the use of bicycles, walking and public transport amongst our staff, ensuring that all of our cars run on either unleaded petrol or diesel and promoting car share, where possible. Our recruitment policy of only using local recruitment agencies also underpins this objective, and over 50% of our staff live within 3 miles of our offices -
We actively minimise energy usage by only using energy saving lighting, and staff are encouraged to conserve energy, wherever possible, by turning off heating, lighting and computer equipment when not in use -
In relation to environmental sustainability, all service suppliers (other than utilities) are long-standing suppliers who operate locally within the local Cheshire area -
Rullion has also set a number of environmental objectives for 2008, including reducing paper usage by 10% and sourcing environmentally friendly office consumables -
We are actively looking at sponsoring a tree planting programme as part of our Corporate Social Responsibility programme and aim to be fully carbon neutral by 2015
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