Enviromental Policy

Herts Aid is committed to conserving the natural world by minimizing any negative impact we may have on the environment.

We are dedicated to reducing this impact by all reasonable means. We do this by implementing the following measures:

1) Identify and quantify the environmental impact of all our activities and take all steps to minimize consumption and waste by ensuring we only buy what we need, re-using wherever possible and appropriately recycling that which is no longer fit for use.

2) Ensure all staff are made aware of the Policy during their induction training and continue to inform and encourage them by a process of on-going education in the requirements of the Environmental Policy

3) Set annual improvement targets for all environmental impacts and publish these in the annual report. These include keeping travel to a minimum, reducing the amount of waste going to landfill and increasing the percentage recycled, reducing energy consumption from our office activities by application of best energy saving practice, and encouraging our service users to follow these practices both while using our premises, and in their own homes.

4) Involve key suppliers in a process of continual improvement in relation to reducing the global environmental impact of our activities and ensure all our purchases meet best environmental standards

5) Herts Aid will meet and exceed the requirements of relevant national and local environmental legislation and by-laws.

7) The Policy is endorsed by both the Management Team and Trustees. Responsibility for the Policy lies with the Director.