Our Green Credentials

• Sherwins’s Commitment For A Greener Environment
  
  What we do as Sherwins through the delivery of our services has a direct and indirect impact on our environment. Sherwins is therefore committed to proactively managing the impact of how it delivers its services in a responsible manner.
  
  Our policy as a “green company” is to do what we can as individuals and as a company to reduce our carbon footprint, to use resources responsibly and to do our part to protect and preserve the environment for future generations.
  
  Compliance With Environmental Legislation and Regulations
  
  Sherwins will comply with all current legislation connected to its environmental policy by reviewing its commercial practices to ensure these are in line with current legislation, and codes of conduct and then ensuring the follow the spirit of the legislation in everything that we do in our business operations.
  
  
  Green Operations
  
  Sherwins is committed to this Green Policy. As such we are continually reviewing our carbon footprint and using tools available from organisations such as The Carbon Trust to measure our footprint to ensure we are informed on the most up-to-date ways to manage our emissions. The Carbon Trust offer a number of tools which we utilise so that we can:
  
  

  • Measure the carbon footprint of our business
  • Keep track of our emissions using performance indicators
  • Create targets to manage our emissions
  • Work to reduce our carbon footprint through effective management in areas including:
    Reducing energy bills in Sherwins offices by turning off lights, computers, photocopiers, printers and boilers at the end of the working date
  • Reducing energy bills in Sherwins offices by turning off lights, computers, photocopiers, printers and boilers at the end of the working date
  • Encouraging home working where possible – we have 5 full time members of staff working from home
  • All Sherwins Enforcement Officers work from home bases to reduce the need for travel to the workplace
  • Reducing water consumption both in Sherwins’s offices and sites
  • Purchasing environmentally-friendly products wherever possible
  • Recycling cardboard, paper, tin, glass and plastic in Sherwins offices
  • Recycling computers and peripherals
  • Recycling toner cartridges for printers
  • Using tele-conferencing, telephones, email and internet to reduce the need for air travel

  
  Communicating Our Green Policy

In our offices our Green Policy is communicated through team training and practical measures such as using confidential shredding services which recycle the confidential client papers we print and receive every week. 

We also recycle cardboard, plastic, tin and paper and printer cartridges.