01732 759725 42 VOX POP We then wanted to go one step further by removing the elephant in the room and offsetting what our customers print, which is when we introduced EBM’s green print programme at the core of our company, beginning with a partnership with our key manufacturers to stop the disposal of their cartridges in landfill sites. This is done through a recycling scheme where we provide our customers with free cartridge recycling containers that are sent to our recycling partners. “In 2015, we set ambitious goals to reach carbon neutrality for our operations by 2020. We achieved this ahead of time in 2018. We carried this out by investing heavily in our procurement process, carefully selecting suppliers ensuring they live up to our high ethics approach. Some examples are, using energy which only comes from renewable sources and ensuring any waste produced is disposed through a recycling waste company. “We then wanted to go one step further by removing the elephant in the room and offsetting what our customers print, which is when we introduced EBM’s green print programme. In 2020, some 24.43 tonnes of CO2 was offset using the carbon footprint programme which supports community projects such as UK tree planting, solar for schools, biodiversity, and conservation. Whilst offsetting is not the long-term solution, it’s the best an SME can use, going forward we need to look to further investment such as electric vehicles.” Ato Nimoh-Brema, Head of Sustainability and Business Assurance, Apogee: “At its core, Apogee’s vision for the future is built on creating a net positive impact on the environment whilst providing leadership on sustainability for the managed workplace services industry. “Apogee’s sustainability strategy is intentionally linked to the organisation’s core values and hinges on three pillars: planet, people, and productivity. The planet pillar is our commitment to environmental sustainability: greenhouse gas emissions throughout our value chain, waste and resource efficiency, water use reduction, and enhancement of biodiversity and preservation of heritage. The people pillar represents our commitment to our people and the communities we reside in: employee development and wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion, community engagement, and charitable activities. Lastly, the productivity pillar represents our commitment to continually develop and grow our business by being innovative at adapting to internal and external factors locally and globally. “Apogee has an ambitious target for net zero greenhouse gas emissions and zero waste by 2030, and as a subsidiary of HP, we proudly align ourselves to HP’s drive for carbon neutrality by 2025/26. We’ve also set the target to plant at least one million trees in managed forests around the world by 2030. “We have made progress in meeting our goals in several key areas. First, 100 per cent of waste generated in the business was diverted from landfills in FY21. We have also started capturing and reporting on waste reuse. In 2021, we reused 460 tonnes of items destined for waste. Most of the waste is machine parts harvested for reuse and endof-life devices which are refurbished and re-sold. We also reduced our fleet energy used in FY21 by five per cent compared with FY20, with a 49 per cent reduction compared with our 2019 baseline. We planted more than a thousand new trees in managed forests worldwide and engaged in various community programmes.” Kelly Harris, UK Sustainability Lead, Ingram Micro: “The most material impacts from our business are in GHG emissions and waste generation. We aimed to reduce our absolute global GHG emissions 10 per cent from 2016 to 2020 Graeme Savage, Commercial Director, SOS Systems: “Sustainability is an integral part of SOS Systems’ core business strategy. One of our key objectives for 2022 is to quantify our operational carbon footprint, identifying additional ways to align our business processes and corporate culture to an ever more environmentally sound position. “SOS already achieves best practice in waste management, following the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ stratagem. Our existing environmental policy includes: moving the company vehicle fleet towards hybrid/electric, remanufacture of equipment and parts, facilitation of hybrid working, cycle to work scheme and providing an energy-efficient workspace.” Mark Bailey, Managing Director, EBM Managed Services: “We as a company have a responsibility to trade and conduct business in an ethical and sustainable way. We strive to continually improve our social responsibility to reduce our impact on the environment. “This started back in 2011 when EBM started embedding sustainability continued... Martin Roberts Graham Savage
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