Grant Thornton works to the following environmental policy:
- to minimise the use of all resources in carrying out our activities;
- to minimise waste generated by our operations and our work;
- having minimised, to reuse and recycle, wherever possible, office waste;
- to maximise recovery and recycling of our waste output; purchase, wherever possible products, especially office consumables and stationery, containing recycled materials; encourage participation in environmentally beneficial programmes by employees, suppliers and clients; and
- encourage and promote all staff to behave in an environmentally friendly manner.
Activities carried out by Grant Thornton in pursuit of this policy include:
- source segregation of all waste materials into confidential paper; non-confidential paper; plastic bottles; aluminium cans and non-recoverable waste. Our segregated waste is collected under contract by Fingal Recycling Limited;
- we continually monitor printer and photocopier use and paper consumption; and
- we are based in a modern building which has low energy lighting and energy efficient equipment.
We have recently updated our environmental impacts review and as a result we are currently reviewing ‘green energy’ suppliers with the intention to buy from renewable sources and are encouraging tele-conferencing to reduce travel impacts.