Environmental Policy - Promote Golf

Our Environmental Policy

At Promote, we strive to minimise our impact on the environment, and support our clients and partners to do the same

At Promote Golf we want to ensure that the work we do has a positive impact on the world around us. While making great inroads over the last few years, we know that we still have a lot to do to turn our environmental impact into one that is positive for the world around us.

The purpose of the detailed policy below is to outline our approach to environmental management, demonstrating our commitment to continuously seeking to improve sustainability and environmental performance.

We support a positive environmental culture across all our offices by actively promoting best practice and ensuring sustainability considerations are built into decision making across all aspects of the company. We recognise that compliance with relevant environmental legislation and approved codes of practice is the minimum standard we should expect from ourselves.

Paper

Encourage all employees to avoid printing unless entirely necessary.
Use paper from sustainable sources.
Double sided printing is encouraged.
Avoid hard copies by encouraging clients to receive manuals electronically.
Cancel junk mail/unwanted publications to reduce amount of waste to be collected.
Place paper re-cycling bins next to each workstation.
Promote paper and cardboard recycling.

Waste

Encourage all employees to avoid printing unless entirely necessary.
Use paper from sustainable sources.
Double sided printing is encouraged.
Avoid hard copies by encouraging clients to receive manuals electronically.
Cancel junk mail/unwanted publications to reduce amount of waste to be collected.
Place paper re-cycling bins next to each workstation.
Promote paper and cardboard recycling.

Recycling

Re-use will cut both purchase and disposal costs, whereas recycling will only reduce disposal costs.
Support the recycling process by purchasing recycled paper products.
Liaise with other building tenants to make the collection of recyclables more economical.

Materials for recycling;

Glass bottles (contact local authority for collection services)
Aluminium cans (contact local authority for collection services)
Toner cartridges (return to manufacturer by pre-paid envelope through a specialist remanufacturing company or charity-run scheme).

Energy

Seek to increase energy efficiency in its buildings and operations.
Promote the efficient use of energy.
Purchase energy centrally and get renewal quotes from existing and alternative suppliers annually.
Turn off heating/cooling in unoccupied rooms.
Make sure windows are closed when using heating/air-con.
If a computer has the ‘energy star’ or ‘power save’ feature make sure it is activated; machines are often set up with it disabled.
Insist that monitors are switched off when not in use, or staff are away from their desks at meetings or lunch, as screens use twice the energy of PCs.

Transport

Promote Green Transport schemes like Electric Vehicle leasing and Cycle to Work.
Promote car-sharing to client meetings.
Video conferencing technology and appropriate hardware has been installed on all computers.
Golf clubs can be tricky to find and not always on public transport. We offset our carbon emissions from visits to clients by planting a tree for every 3000 kilometers of car journeys completed. We’ve calculated this in consultation with MyClimate and Encon.

Purchasing

Investigate environmentally acceptable alternatives, and whenever practicable, purchase products and services for its own operations that have a minimal impact on the environment.

Polution

Seek to minimise all forms of pollution, including noise, generated through our activities.

Supporting ClimatePartner

By making a donation with everything we get printed for our clients, we offset the carbon used in the production and delivery of the print order. Learn more about the three great causes we're supporting.