Corporate Responsibility: Environment

Overview

• We have signed up to the May Day pledges
• We have an environmental policy

Fulfilling the May Day commitments

• We have almost halved our energy usage saving around 65,000 KWH
• We have almost halved our water usage (saving around 160 cubic metres of water through action like halving the size of our cisterns and water efficient dishwashers)
• We are committed to ISO14001 compliance by the end of 2008
• Our carbon footprint in Liverpool was 97.5 tonnes in February 2008 (for 2007)
• All our waste paper, glass, plastic, tin, card, batteries and toner cartridges are recycled
• Less than 3% of our design work was printed on non-recyclable stock
• Last year we recycled 1,430 kilos of paper from our Liverpool offices
• We also recycle all our IT/electrical equipment and mobile phones

Seeking campaigns to achieve environmental change

• We also deliberately seek to find work campaigning on environmental change
• We continue to work with WRAP as the only communications company successfully retained after three competitive tenders working to reduce waste and increase recycling
• We also work with the EPA in Ireland promoting good environmental practice to SMEs and we work with several local authorities on environmental campaigns
• Our part pro bono investment in the Small Business Journey to encourage SME CSR engagement has recently been given a new lease of life by BitC

Next steps

• We are setting a 10% reduction target for 2008
• We have invited all colleagues to track their own carbon footprint
• We are committed to exploring a target of carbon neutrality for colleagues not just at work but also at home