environmental policy

Righttrack’s Environmental Policy

The term ‘environmental policy’ sounds very formal and Righttrack’s style is not to be too formal. However, the environment is very important to us. Hence the reason why we chose to relocate to a barn conversion on a working farm and support rural redevelopment.

As a small company, we see our environmental policy linking directly with our values; we work hard not to waste our and the planet’s resources and where we can we strive to make a difference.

The following key points outline our approach and why:

Use of Paper and Recycling

In our business one of the areas we do need to be careful with is the use of paper. Designing and presenting hundreds of development programmes can result in the use of tonnes of paper every year, so all paper and journals are recycled. We only print where necessary. We have now introduced a policy to email programme notes to delegates rather than print (2007).

Print cartridges are also sent for recycling.

Power – Lights & Heat

This is very straightforward. When a room is not in use we turn the lights off. All radiators are on timers and are turned off at weekends. This makes it freezing on a winter’s Monday morning – so we all stand around with our coats on for a while until it warms up – but that’s okay – it hardly ever gets seriously cold.

Travel

Travelling around the UK and overseas can result in us using a lot of fuel. So company cars were changed this year (2006) to diesel to minimise carbon emissions. However, we still promote the use of the train where appropriate, although this can be tricky if an associate has to transport equipment for a programme.

Where possible, associates are selected for projects to minimise travel and therefore expense for our clients.

Use of Other Resources – Christmas Cards and Gifts

As early as 1990, we stopped sending Christmas Cards to our clients and suppliers. Although nice to receive, they really are a huge waste of resource. It is company policy to send an email message or a simple ditty on a small single sheet of paper. What we might otherwise spend on cards goes to charity.

It is company policy not to give gifts to our clients – in any case, this contravenes most of our clients’ internal policies relating to the acceptance of gifts. Instead we say thank you by purchasing our clients a charity gift. Last year it was goats and sight savers cataract operations!

Community Responsibility

When we can, we like to use local suppliers to ensure we support the local economy. This is demonstrated through the use of the farm land where our barn is for team and experiential management events. This benefits the local community and ensures members of the training team are not travelling too far.

Where appropriate, client development projects can be linked with providing something meaningful for their local community.