CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
PROTECTING OUR
ENVIRONMENT
Our position Our progress
We are committed to taking responsibility for the impact In 2016/17:
our business has on the environment and have adopted
a risk-based approach to understanding, minimising Governance
and mitigating this impact. This is conducted in line •
We published our group environmental policy, which
with our values and the responsibilities we have to our highlights our global objectives and provides guidance
customers and our people, as well as our obligations in for employees and partners on how they can apply
the countries in which we operate. our wider group plans at a local level.
Our environmental programme is an important element
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a consistent environmental approach across the
of our corporate responsibility approach. We understand
board. Led by our Chief Commercial Officer, the group
that both global and local environmental issues can have
comprises cross-functional senior managers to ensure
a wide-reaching and long-term effect on our society, now
and in the future.
We established a global environment team to deliver
all areas of the business have a voice.
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Our Hungarian site, Szatmar Optikai, achieved its
We recognise that the consumption of energy, the use ISO 14001 accreditation, providing assurance to our
of non-renewable resources, water and packaging, and customers and suppliers that we understand the
waste creation are all things we need to monitor and impact our operations may have on the environment,
reduce in every part of our business: and that we have structures and controls in place to
manage and minimise this effect.
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our 1,800-plus stores account for the largest share
of our carbon footprint through the direct and indirect
emission of greenhouse gases related to energy use
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In our UK and Guernsey support offices, we embarked
on obtaining local environmental accreditations,
assessing our local environmental impact and
our manufacturing and distribution sites have a creating a pathway to improving our environmental
significant carbon impact through energy use, with performance:
the additional elements of water, packaging and waste
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our support offices also contribute to our carbon
impact by using energy for administration and IT
infrastructure
- Keep Guernsey Green Award (Guernsey)
- Green Impact award (Whiteley)