Environmental Policy - Andrew Stewart Limited
Our Vision
Our vision is to be a role model for sustainable business for the SME business sector, with a commitment to continual improvement. We look to be recognised in the market place as being environmentally conscious, by clearly demonstrating the actions we take and being in the vanguard of SME sustainable practices.
Our Impacts
We recognise the vital importance of conducting our operations in a manner consistent with the principles of sustainable business, and specifically, in ways which minimise impacts on the natural environment. Whilst, as an office-based service organisation, these impacts are relatively minor, we operate with full awareness of our impacts in the following ways:
- Greenhouse gas emissions, and other air pollutant emissions, from the use of fossil fuel sourced electricity for our office, and from the use of liquid fossil fuels for our transport requirements;
- Production of waste in our office; and
- Indirectly, the environmental impact of our suppliers delivering products and services to us.
Our Commitments
We are committed to continually improve our environmental performance and minimise pollution through the actions listed below. We believe that these commitments make good business sense, as well as reducing our impacts on the environment.
Complying with relevant environmental legislation, statutory regulations and other relevant requirements;
Making environmental performance a selection criteria for suppliers and encouraging key suppliers to do the same;
- Implementing an environmental management system that is appropriate for an office-based SME business, taking into account the requirements of ISO14001;
- Setting realistic objectives and targets for each of our most significant environmental impacts, including our carbon footprint;
- Minimising our energy consumption and encouraging the use of less polluting forms of transport whenever possible;
- Minimising the amount of waste produced through re-use, reduction, and recycling;
- Training all employees on environmental issues;
- Encouraging our employees to participate in activities which improve our local environment and community;
- Communicating our environmental policy to employees, and other stakeholders and working with them to identify areas for environmental improvement;
- Regularly reviewing our environmental management systems; and
- Publicly reporting on our environmental performance.
ASL Environmental Policy Statement