• Wholly support and comply with or exceed the requirements of current environmental legislation and codes of practice.
• Minimise our waste and reuse / recycle as much of it as possible.
• Minimise energy and water usage.
• Operate and maintain vehicles with due regard to environmental issues as far as reasonably practical and encourage use of ‘greener’ means of transport including car sharing as appropriate.
• As far as possible purchase products and services that do the least damage to the environment and encourage others to do the same.
• Encourage employees to transfer appropriate environmental practices adopted in the workplace to their home environment.
• Communicate openly and consult with our stakeholders on environmental issues. Publish our policy and carbon footprint cumulative record as a downloadable item on our website, inviting open comment.
• Address complaints about any breach of our Environmental Policy promptly and to the satisfaction of all concerned.

How Protectall will do it

• Minimise our waste and reuse or recycle as much of it as possible.
  Paper and Paper Products
  
  • Recycled and recyclable paper and paper products, such as office paper,
  • envelopes will be purchased whenever possible
  • Staff are expected to be economical in their use of paper and to use scrap paper for notes
  • Wherever possible waste products will be recycled.
• Minimise energy and water usage  
  Water
  
  • The use of water will be kept to a minimum
  • Water limiter device placed in cistern and short/long flush toilet cistern installed
  Energy/Electrical Equipment
  
  • Energy will be used as efficiently as possible.
  • When purchasing new equipment, energy efficiency will be fully considered
  • Electrical equipment will be turned off when not in use
• Operate and maintain vehicles with due regard to environmental issues as far as reasonably practical and encourage the use of alternative means of transport and car sharing as appropriate.
  Transport
  
  • The use of environmentally friendly transport (walking, public transport, bicycles, car pools) by staff will be encouraged for business use and travel.
• As far as possible purchase products and services that do the least damage to the environment and encourage others to do the same.
  Cleaning Materials
  
  • Environmentally friendly cleaning materials will be used whenever possible
  Office Consumables
  
  • Office consumables will be stored centrally and an inventory will be maintained to ensure efficient stock control
  • Environmentally friendly products e.g. refillable pens, will be used where practical
  • Printers will be set to economic settings by default and ink cartridges refilled or recycled.
• Encourage employees to transfer appropriate environmental practices adopted in the workplace to their home environment
  
  • Environmental considerations will be a standing agenda item at staff meetings.
• Communicate openly and consult with our stakeholders on environmental issues
  
  • Downloadable policy copy (including Protectall annual carbon footprint calculations) on
  • website with reader comments invited
  • Annual figures reported to Business In The Community (BITC) - http://www.bitc.org.uk (effective 2009)
• Address complaints about any breach of our Environmental Policy promptly and to the satisfaction of all concerned.
  • Environmental action status will be a standing agenda item at staff meetings.

How Protectall is achieving versus Policy Objectives

Data maintained in accordance with Carbon Neutral Company ‘footprint calculator’ … data entered annually  http://www.carbonneutral.com/business-carbon-calculator/index.asp , tabulated below and submitted to BITC - http://www.bitc.org.uk.

Click the image to download our policy in PDF format (reader required)          

Click the image to download our Carbon Footprint Report in Excel format