Lyreco get onboard with the rippleffect!
Lyreco is on track to represent UK in European Environment Awards…
Lyreco has just been notified that it is among the winners in the Green Apple Environment awards. The Green Apple Awards are now in their sixteenth year and attracted more than 500 nominations this year.
They are organised by The Green Organisation, an independent, non-profit environment group dedicated to recognising, rewarding and promoting environmental best practice around the world.
Lyreco are continually striving to improve their business to benefit the environment and the local community and celebrated their 10 year anniversary of achieving ISO14001 in 2008. A big step for Lyreco over the past year has been to join the local environmental group BESST (Business Environmental Support Scheme for Telford.) As a key player on the steering committee, the business provides help and assistance to other local businesses who wish to make environmental improvements.
In 2008 the company focused heavily on waste reduction. “Stamp Out Waste” was developed around key environmental objectives, to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill. The programme made it possible for staff to separate and recycle plastic drinks cups, cans, paper, cardboard and ink toner/cartridges through the introduction of new bins and containers. In October 2008, 100% of general office bins were removed to enable segregation at the waste source. Following on from the Stamp Out Waste programme the team have worked on reducing gas consumption, investigating and reducing water consumption and are now looking at a target to calculate the company carbon footprint.
Lyreco who have previously won two Green Apple awards, 2006 Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice in Fuel, Power & Energy - Gold Winner and in 2005 won the Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice in Retail & Wholesale - Bronze Winner, will be presented with their Green Apple Award at the House of Commons later this year.
Editor Notes
Lyreco in the UK is a fully owned operating subsidiary of the Lyreco Group.
Lyreco is a family owned stationery supplies group operating extensively throughout Europe, Canada and Asia, with 29 subsidiaries worldwide.
Lyreco ranks high amongst the worldwide distributors of office supplies and delivers over 215,000 products per day to its customer base.
