Brighter Blessing's Environmental Policy
At Brighter Blessings we understand our responsibility to
protect and preserve the environment. We are dedicated to considering every
aspect of our business in terms of impact on the environment and taking positive
action.
Environmental Mission Statement:
Brighter Blessing’s mission is to ensure that our operations
today do not have a negative impact on the lives of future generations.
Our goal is to achieve continuous environmental improvement. We will comply with
all current legislation and, where possible, act in anticipation of future
environmental legislation. We base our environmental programme around the
hierarchy of ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ and are committed to continuous review,
evaluation and improvement of our programme. This includes setting targets, and
monitoring and reporting on progress towards meeting them. Our business
impacts on the environment through:
Sourcing raw materials to manufacture our own products.
Sourcing products for resale.
The operation of our manufacturing and administrative functions. Company
Focus – How we achieve our aims:
Manufacturing Operations
Focusing on manufacturing processes to:
Minimise impacts associated with odour, noise, effluent and emissions to the
atmosphere
Reduce the amount of solid waste
Increase the value recovered from solid waste before its responsible disposal
Purchasing - focusing on procurement to:
Work in partnership with environmentally responsible suppliers to minimise the
resources used and pollution associated with our products and operations.
Our Employees – focusing on training and communicating with our employees
to:
Increase the environmental awareness and relevant skills of all who work for
Brighter Blessings.
Communication – focusing on communicating our environmental policy and
procedures to:
Increase the environmental awareness of our suppliers and our customers
Administration – focusing on our office-based activities to:
Improve energy efficiency and office recycling schemes, and to reduce the
impacts associated with business travel and travel to work.
Waste
Brighter Blessings Waste Management strategy is based on the hierarchy:
Design / Reduce / Reuse / Recycle / Disposal
Design
One of the most effective ways to reduce environmental impacts is to ensure that
they don’t happen in the first place – i.e. to design them out! At Brighter
Blessings, we constantly challenge both ourselves and our suppliers to find ways
to improve efficiency, effectiveness and environmental performance
Reduce
Brighter Blessing’s are continually seeking ways to reduce their solid waste.
One way of doing this is ensuring no wastage of materials in the manufacturing
process.
We also try to ensure that we only give our customers the minimal amount of
packaging per product.
Reuse
Brighter Blessings will reuse delivery packaging wherever possible.
Recycle
Brighter Blessing’s have a target to recycle 100% of their corrugated cardboard,
paper and tissue, glass, metals and recyclable plastics.
Brighter Blessings also promote recycling by purchasing recycled products
themselves, such as recycled paper.
Disposal
Where we cannot reduce, reuse or recycle our waste, we make sure that we use the
safest and most responsible means of waste disposal available.
Packaging
Brighter Blessings use packaging to ensure our products are aesthetically
pleasing and protected during the delivery process. We are always looking at
ways to reduce the amount of packaging we use and to improve the environmental
performance of packaging materials.
Our goal is continuous improvement, and we are working to identify other
materials and ways to reduce the impact of our packaging.
Energy
Brighter Blessings use low energy light bulbs, and aim to use “green
electricity”.
Ongoing energy surveys and staff education campaigns are conducted to encourage
good practices, such as turning off lights and equipment when they are not
required.
Suppliers
Brighter Blessings aim to have an Environmental Management programme for all of
our suppliers.
This programme will address environmental impacts associated with growing,
processing, converting, packaging and distributing raw materials and packaging
items.
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