How can businesses reduce their carbon footprint?
With Net Zero firmly in the spotlight, businesses are all having to devise a way to reduce their carbon output. Below are six steps you should consider taking to ensure your business is on track to meet your carbon reduction targets.
1. Go Paperless
Going paperless has a number of benefits for both individuals and businesses. Besides the obvious environmental benefits, going paperless can save a significant amount of money on paper, ink, and other office supplies. It can also save time and increase efficiency by allowing documents to be shared and accessed electronically, rather than having to print, file, and physically search for them. Additionally, going paperless can help to reduce clutter and increase organization by eliminating the need for physical filing cabinets and storage space.
2. Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
It's critical to improve your recycling performance and increase the amount of waste you divert from landfill. By simply separating your waste ultimately reduces the disposal cost of your other bins. What’s more, reducing the amount of waste you send to landfill reduces your overall costs associated with environmental compliance and landfill tax.
3. Improve Energy Efficiency
The built environment contributes to around 40% of the UK's total carbon footprint. Improving the energy performance of your building, therefore, goes a long way towards the UK’s 2050 net-zero timeline. Not to mention drastically reducing your energy costs.
4. Procycle
Despite our best efforts to recycle as much as we can, there are still some difficult to recycle items. We strongly urge you explore the PROCYCLE solution. A container-return service that means you can now collect those difficult to recycle ad hoc items and give them a new life too.
5. Adopt Renewable Energy
District heating, solar, biomass, geothermal, and many more. Year on year we are making advancements in the scalability of our energy solutions, to the point where they are arguably more effective than traditional methods. Therefore, why not adopt them! Sure, the initial costs are evident but you are bound to profit over the long term. Plan for the future!!
6. Electrify Your Fleet
It's time to electrify your fleet. Electric vehicles have developed considerably in the past years, to the point where they will soon become a necessity. Your business could be adopting Intelligent rapid charging technologies to help meet your businesses carbon reduction and clean air targets
Veolia can work with your business to develop a carbon reduction timeline, and implement the solutions to help you get there. We can advise on the best solutions that will ensure you remain compliant and that can support your whole business align with your goals, including your supply chain.
-Further Reading-
The road to electric, emissions-free transport
We are all aware of the Net Zero deadline looming ahead of us - the UK needs to be carbon neutral by 2050. There are many different issues and sectors that we need to focus on to get there, including transport.
Turning ambitions into reality: preparing for Net Zero
In a recent poll conducted on our LinkedIn page, 77% of respondents claimed that their level of concern over carbon has increased in the past five years.
Unlocking the recyclability of your product
We are all aware we can recycle cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, drinks cans… However, what about crisp packets or sweet wrappers? Or even hard hats and safety glasses? Veolia can help with those difficult items.
Carbon Reduction: Your complete A-Z guide
With carbon reduction firmly on the environmental agenda, it can be mind-boggling navigating the world of related buzzwords. With this in mind, we've put together an A-Z guide of key terms and how Veolia can help your business meet its carbon reduction targets.