Staff Volunteer Days Everyone wins with volunteer days! They benefit the individual employees and the local community and organisations whilst having the potential to improve the environment if contacts and partnerships are made with environmental charities. Each month a business could run a staff volunteer day with different environmental charities
Sponsor If financially possible, sponsor a local charity, or local environmental charity – get in touch to see if there are any other ways in which your business could help them out e.g., get involved by volunteering; advertise the charity to your employees & customers. If providing a product, see
Connect We recommend reaching out to your local industry body if you are not already in contact with them. This is a great chance to share your environmental message to encourage other businesses to embark on the journey to reducing their own carbon footprint. It would be great to create
Pricing There are several reasons why improving your environmental performance makes for good business. Making environmental improvements is often seen as costly and therefore not ‘smart business’, but the product will inevitably be better quality and can be affordable if done correctly. Cutting costs – using less energy, water and
Banking & Investors Try to find ethical bankers. We appreciate that transparency in the financial sector is difficult to find but it is worth having a think about why this is – if your bank is only investing in sustainable and ethical practises, why would they not allow you to
Technology We are living in a world surrounded by advancing technology, and while this has massively helped reduce our carbon footprint by making it possible to reduce our paper usage, technology and storing data require huge amounts of energy, often sourced from fossil fuels. To reduce data usage and energy,
Local Companies who once preferred to source internationally to save on costs are beginning to seek other cost-effective solutions. Localising comes with many benefits: It helps the environment (reduces shipping, storage, emissions and energy usage). A business has greater control (the further you are from elements of your supply chain,
Ethical Suppliers Wherever possible, use ethical suppliers – look for: sustainability and environmental awareness, fair pay, appropriate working hours, safe and hygienic conditions for workers and non-discriminatory treatment If you don’t know whether your supplier can be considered as being ethical, why not? Do you not think that it’s important
Share Plan At Another Way, we believe in ten to the power of ten. This is the idea that if one person spreads a message to ten people on one day, and the next day those ten people tell ten more each, then in only ten days, the whole world
Product Repair This step will depend on the products or service a business is providing. It proposes that where possible, repair schemes are set up and links are made with a local repair shop to refer customers to if a product is damaged. This can be done by: Partnering with
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