Green Pledge
Our Green Growth Pledges simple first step helps to reduce environmental impact and to grow at the same time. A number of different categories can be choosed that suits and builds expertise in each one.
A Green Growth Pledge is a message to customers and the wider business community those planning to become a clean and green company. It will not only reduce costs and increase your resilience but also lead the way for others to follow.
Going green helps the environment to reduce the amount of pollution that enters the soil, water and air. Trying to use alternative energy sources and avoiding the burning of fossil fuels, recycling and reducing waste and driving more efficiently, lower pollutants are released into the environment.
Is it important to be green?
Yes, it is. Going green saves you from toxic products and environmental pollution.
It helps to detoxify which results in more stamina, more energy, which eventually increases your productivity both at work and at home.
Following the green pledge helps to protect nature and the environment by saving energy, water, reducing use of disposable plastics, promoting reusable materials, planting saplings and reducing dependence on fossil fuels by adopting renewables.
Also reducing waste, good use of waste and generating energy from it. Some commit to include:
- Minimising our energy use
- Reducing plastic waste
- Recycling responsibly
- Contributing positively to the wider community through organisations such as Rural England.
- Change all your light bulbs to low-energy LEDs: There are LED equivalents for most light fittings so there’s really no excuse.
- Remove individual desk bins: Trying to provide minimal general waste bins and lots of recycling bins, encourages to get up and recycle!
- Investigate local recycling schemes
Your local council may not be able to take every type of plastic but a little research and there are lots of recycling schemes out there. For example:
- Print cartridges
- Crisp packets
- Bread bags
- Cleaning products
- Pens
4. Go green!
The biggest single thing a business can do to reduce its carbon footprint. And the beauty about choosing Green Energy UK as your supplier is you can tell everyone that you buy only 100% green energy.
As part of creating and maintaining a truly ethical supply chain, work should be focused on four key areas: materials, environment, safety, and sustainable supply chains. Also taking positive action towards a sustainable future to help us to reach our goals.
Material
Ethical sourcing of materials throughout all supply chains and actively preventing deforestation through the responsible sourcing of paper and board used in products and steadily work to reduce use of plastic. Avoid using any illegal or unsustainable wood fibres in our products.
Environment
Try to minimise our impact on the environment, whether that is in our supply chain, our warehouses or in our offices. Develop new initiatives to promote a greener workplace.
Safety
Ensuring product safety is integral to the design, development and manufacture of all of the products that we create. Resource for product safety, setting policy and processes to ensure that products are physically, mechanically, chemically and environmentally safe and compliant.
Sustainable supply chain
Taking positive action to respect human rights and commit to ensure fair labour throughout our supply chain.
The aim of going green is to:
- Reduces pollution which affects the body and mind.
- Going green also reduces resource consumption and eliminates wastes.
- It helps to conserve natural resources and forests.
- Maintains natural ecological balance on earth so that all living things can survive and thrive in their natural habitat.