Waste
Our objective for 2009 was to gain a better understanding of how waste is managed across our businesses and to identify opportunities for reducing the volume of our waste and the costs associated with its disposal.
In 2009, we reduced the total waste from our office buildings by 22% (or 678 tonnes less than in 2008). We set ourselves a target to reduce waste to landfill in 2009 by 10% but actually achieved an 18% reduction, which equates to 426 tonnes.
All our sites now have recycling bins and we can see the way our colleagues think about waste is changing.
Through our caterers, Baxter Storey, we convert food waste from our sites to energy (energy recovery from waste). Overall in 2009, we used 3% (50 tonnes) of our total waste to generate 11.17MWh of renewable energy. We saw this jump in the second half of the year, when we started converting all non-recyclable waste from our Newstead and Sherwood sites into energy - on top of the food waste from 10 of our sites.
Improvements during 2010 have included replacing paper towels at most sites with new energy efficient hand dryers, a reduction in how much of our waste is sent to landfill, and an increase in the number of sites whose non-recyclable waste is converted to energy.
In 2009, we reduced the total waste from our office buildings by 22% (or 678 tonnes less than in 2008). We set ourselves a target to reduce waste to landfill in 2009 by 10% but actually achieved an 18% reduction, which equates to 426 tonnes.
All our sites now have recycling bins and we can see the way our colleagues think about waste is changing.
Through our caterers, Baxter Storey, we convert food waste from our sites to energy (energy recovery from waste). Overall in 2009, we used 3% (50 tonnes) of our total waste to generate 11.17MWh of renewable energy. We saw this jump in the second half of the year, when we started converting all non-recyclable waste from our Newstead and Sherwood sites into energy - on top of the food waste from 10 of our sites.
Improvements during 2010 have included replacing paper towels at most sites with new energy efficient hand dryers, a reduction in how much of our waste is sent to landfill, and an increase in the number of sites whose non-recyclable waste is converted to energy.
