Environment
At Blockbusters Environmental Services, the environment is core to our strategic business strategy. We recognise that our operations have an impact on the environment and we are committed to ensuring that all of our employees operate all aspects of our business taking care for the environment in which we work and live.
We make every effort to look at our operations on a regular basis to find ways of improving them in line with our environmental policy. For example, providing forward investment in Trenchless technology to avoid unnecessary digging and damage to nearby vegetation or introducing new recycling processes within our offices to ensure all staff are recycling used paper on a daily basis.
Some of the core elements of our environmental policy include:
- Conserve the usage of energy and raw materials
- Reduce wastage to a minimum
- Recycle materials to a maximum
- Improve our working environment
- Avoid pollution of air, land and water
- Observe and where possible, exceed environmental regulatory standards
- Ensure all staff are trained in proper environmental practises
- Promote recycling education links through association with local schools, charitable groups and community organisations.
Waste Management Strategy
Waste Management is a global issue, with implications for all developed and developing nations. It is also an issue against which all elements of the community can take action, from industry reducing greenhouse gas emissions to individuals reducing their domestic waste.
Waste Management policies at a local level have been driven by agreements reached at an international level including the Kyoto Summit in December 1997. These agreements have been implemented through European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) legislation.
The waste management document, published in 2000, sets a waste management strategy for Northern Ireland to meet objectives of the EC Waste Framework Directive. It offers a long-term vision for the development of waste management practices and provides the framework to become a reality. The Strategy has three objectives:
- To reduce the quantities of waste generated and maximise reuse, recycling, and recovery of those materials which enter the waste stream
- Significant effort will be required over the coming years to meet legal and policy obligation by reducing quantities of waste quantities of waste sent to landfill and increasing levels of reuse, recycling and recovery
- To ensure that waste is managed with minimum impact on the environment and public health