PRINTITRESELLER.UK 43 PRINT IT AWARDS continued... PrintIT Reseller: How are you engaging your employees in your sustainability efforts? Steve Hawkins: Our staff have undergone extensive training on how we, and our solutions, can assist us and our customers on improving environmental sustainability. This has included quantifying typical improvements across our offerings and specific training from associated manufacturer partners on their core sustainability offerings and programmes. All staff have undergone training across our core value proposition, and sales staff have received deep dive training with toolsets to be able to articulate how we, together with our customers, can apply technology to reduce carbon footprint. This includes presentations for customer use, proposal templates, and specific technology solution material documenting environmental improvements that can be obtained. Kevin Wragg: Our co-workers are an integral part of our efforts and we’re encouraging them to be as energyefficient and to reduce waste as much as possible. We ask them to come to the office for only two days each week, reducing carbon impact. We encourage them to use public transport or to walk or cycle when they do come in. For those who own a hybrid or electric vehicle, we have 24 e-charging points for electric vehicles at the new Basingstoke office. We also have ten chargers at our Warrington office and are working to install EV chargers at Magna Park and Bracknell. We are using smart LED lighting and heating controls and all desks have audio-visual equipment to allow interaction with at home workers. The buy-in and enthusiasm for what we are doing amongst our co-workers will be essential to helping us achieve that goal of a 20 per cent reduction in energy consumption this year. In a separate initiative, we have been working with Treedom to offset our carbon impact and we’ve been planting trees to recognise employee achievements and anniversaries. We are also working to make our marketing events zero carbon, planting one tree for every attendee. Justin Willis: We have an Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) steering group made up of seven members of staff from a number of departments. To drive inclusivity, most of the ESG group are not in senior management positions. This group meets on a monthly basis to drive forward our strategy. Sustainability and the environment also feature regularly within the ASL monthly staff newsletter, and we publish facts and statistics which are displayed on staff noticeboards. In additional all of our people are encouraged to take part in opportunities that support environmental initiatives internally and externally. John Draycott: We will embed the sustainability strategy within all parts of the business, the initial emphasis is to bring employees up to date on the strategy and the programmes that we are engaged with. Relevance to their role will be key to them seeing the benefits both to them and as part of the wider organisation. A ‘Sustainability Champion’ will act as the focus point for internal information and to feed back to both management and board on improvements. All employees will have opportunities to suggest and feedback on improvements. Steve Holmes: PaperCut’s environmental efforts are holistic, covering staff, buildings, customers and local communities. In most of our buildings, occupancy sensors or timers are used for lighting efficiency, while programmable thermostats automatically reduce heating and air conditioning during closed hours. Maintenance checks are regularly conducted on HVAC and other energyintensive equipment, while windows are double-pane or better and doors are weather-sealed. Food scraps are composted, and only reusable dishware is available for day-to-day office use. Only tap water is provided at our workplace; no water delivery service or single-serve plastic bottles. Centralised printers are used, while paperless alternatives are used whenever possible (paystubs, invoicing, orientation materials, etc.) The majority of copier paper is used on both sides and recycling bins are clearly labelled and regularly monitored, and education is provided when needed. And, needless to say, we use PaperCut solutions to simplify and manage our print, as well as to reduce waste. Each region has a green team supported by management in implementing sustainability efforts. Employees are educated annually (at minimum) about sustainability best practices, while sustainability practices are communicated to customers. New employees are informed about sustainability best practices — including waste reduction, recycling, and commuting options. When we moved in our Bracknell office, to aid waste minimisation, we decided not to purchase individual waste baskets for each desk, dissuading paper use. We set up a LHR Environmental Guild that reviews a new topic to improve our office and environmental impact. Our TVs, MFDs and light up signage are all on power save/auto timers. Emma Boniface: A new sustainability hub has been launched on our website. We ask them to come to the office for only two days each week, reducing carbon impact. We encourage them to use public transport or to walk or cycle when they do come in Steve Holmes
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