At Select we take our corporate responsibilities seriously.  One aspect of this is to take an active involvement in the management of our environmental impact in order to ensure that it is controlled and reduced wherever opportunities to do so are identified. 

Clearly it is necessary for us to work in accordance with the full range of Environmental Legislation in areas such as pollution prevention, waste management etc, however we aim to go further than this and strive to improve our performance; specific examples of recent and current initiatives are as follows:

• Waste reduction and recycling – We are keen to minimise the quantity of waste sent to landfill and efforts are ongoing to ensure that our procedures are efficient in this area. As a result of this we have been able to increase the amount of waste recycled. These improvements are being achieved by improved management procedures, provision of additional facilities within our depots and engagement with our own staff and with local recycling companies.

• Energy and resources use – we are aware of the requirement to monitor and reduce the amount of energy, water etc used by our operations. Site facilities are supplied with a range of energy savings features as standard and further developments are being trialled.

• Control of vehicle use – In order to ensure that our nationwide network of Depots are able to communicate without reliance on road travel we actively promote the use of voice and video conferencing. This is aimed at reduction of both our Carbon Footprint and the amount of hours spent on the road by our employees. 
  

Progress to Date and Future Strategy

We are very proud of the fact that our procedures have recently been audited by BSi and that we have been awarded the internationally recognised ISO 14001 certificate for our Environmental Management System. As ever there is more to do and we remain committed to the cause of continual improvement through the use of new technology and involvement of all stakeholders.