Sustainable Business Toolkit - Green sense to profit
your business
We provide tools and techniques to help you reduce your
costs and demonstrate your green credentials - reduce, reuse and recycle.
Online support for environmental management - environmental impacts audit, walk
round check on use of resources and waste management, environmental risk
assessment, environmental policy and action plans to reduce your carbon
footprint. Ideas for new working methods to reduce overheads. We are qualified
Environmental Managers and successfully used these techniques to reduce our costs and show
Corporate Social Responsibility commitment to our customers. See our own
Environmental Policy attached.
Walk Round Check
The first step in looking at your environmental impact
is to walk round the business and look at your resource usage. Our
straightforward checklist highlights all the environmental impacts of your
business. It also identifies your costs associated with resource use in each
part of your business.
Environmental Impact Assessment
The next step in identifying how to save costs, the
environmental aspects and impacts assessment audits your use of resources -
energy, fuel, water, raw materials - to spot where you are making the biggest
impact. This gives you the places to start with your review of working methods.
We can start to ask questions about issues such as business travel and
electricity usage and make suggestions about how you can reduce your costs by
using alternative methods to achieve the same results.
Measure Your Carbon Footprint
To successfully manage your environmental impact and
reduce your costs we will help you to set up measurement systems to track
ongoing usage regularly and use a simple tool to measure your carbon footprint.
Publishing your Carbon Footprint is and easy way to demonstrate your commitment
to sustainable business to your customers and local community.
Develop Your Environmental Policy and Action Plan
The final step is to produce your Environmental Policy
and Action Plan - a statement of your commitment to environmental management,
with buy in from everyone in the business. We will assist you to develop the
policy to define your key objectives and include your action plan for reducing
resource usage. You can publish this on your web site as a demonstration of your
green credentials. You can then monitor your progress, and develop further
actions to demonstrate continuous improvement.
Corporate and Social Responsibility
Good environmental management saves you money, so stands
as business best practice in its own right. Being a responsible business and a
good neighbour is a natural outcome from being a sustainable business, and will
bring you advantages in attracting customers, recruitment and standing on your
local community. All public sector and large business tenders now ask for
your environmental, sustainable and ethical policies, and increasingly
businesses will look to build sustainable supply chains. Getting this right now
will give you a competitive advantage, it should be a part of your business
values. You should publicise your green credentials - on your web site, in your
promotional materials, in press releases - to ensure that you get the credit for
your actions. We can provide marketing support to achieve this.
How much does it cost?
We offer a small business package
covering all the steps to produce an environmental management policy and
action plan from £150 plus VAT. We will have an initial free no
obligation talk with you about your business which takes about one
hour, and produce a detailed costed action plan for your approval to go
ahead.
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