Environmental Impact

Passionate about working smarter for our environment.

With an estimated 10 billion people on the planet by 2050, it’s vital that we protect our environment and conserve natural resources. We’re passionate about working smarter to improve our environmental impact by saving energy, improving our energy efficiency and preventing waste.

Saving energy

We have reduced our Scopes 1 & 2 emissions (associated with our buildings and vehicles) by over 73% compared to 2015/16.

Overall, we’ve reduced our energy consumption by over 1.5 million kilowatt-hours since 2019, avoiding over 400 tonnes of CO₂ emissions. For example, we’ve:

• introduced LED lighting and motion sensors – powering our distribution centres with renewable energy
• removed vending machines where they’re not being used regularly
• used intelligent building management systems to provide efficient heating for our offices and distribution centres.

Preventing waste

Through good design and processes, we are work hard to maximise the recyclability of non-recyclable waste. To achieve this, we’re:

• working closely with our customers to forecast demand and prevent the waste of our products
• investing in internal print management system solutions; we’ve halved the volume of paper we print within our operations since 2019
• increasing our recycling activities – we recycled 285 tonnes of paper waste in 2019
• strengthening our internal ‘Plastic Isn’t fantastic’ initiative; so far we’ve banned plastic cutlery and cups, introduced reusable coffee cups and recyclable paper napkins, and started collecting more items for recycling, including batteries and crisp packets.