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Castle's Carbon Reduction Initiative

The Castle Group makes every effort to protect and improve the environment in all areas of the Company’s operations, by seeking continual improvement of our environment and employee safety and health as they relate to our products and operations. This is part of our commitment to preserve and enhance the environment, safety and health of our employees, customers, and neighbours. The development and implementation of this policy is shared between the Castle Computer Services Board of Directors and its employees. Our objectives are:

  • To meet and, where appropriate exceed all relevant UK, European and International
    legislative and other regulatory requirements and agreements;
  • Take measures to prevent pollution from our activities and minimise their
    environmental impacts;
  • To consider environmental impacts as an essential element when evaluating new
    projects, products, and operations;
  • To continuously work to decrease our use of energy and materials, and to decrease
    the amount of waste we generate, recycle waste that is generated, and properly
    dispose of waste that cannot be recycled. This continuous process results in small
    changes in all areas annually;
  • To encourage conservation of energy, water, and natural resources through
    increased efficiency and the introduction of new technology;
  • Where possible, reduce the need for movement of both people and goods and
    encourage the use of car sharing and alternatives to the private car;
  • To provide employees with a better understanding of environmental issues and the
    Company’s commitment, policies, and programs to preserve and improve the
    environment;
  • To work in partnership with our contractors, suppliers and others to encourage
    continuous improvement in environmental performance and practices;
  • To review and, where possible, improve our performance each year with positive
    action in any areas of non-compliance.

The Board of Castle Computer Services will ensure that the environmental policy is clearly understood, implemented, maintained, and communicated at all levels in the organisation. Senior Managers shall take the environmental policy into consideration in the development of objectives and targets. At Castle, we have implemented a number of environmentally friendly improvements within the Company under our Carbon Reduction Initiative program. Following a review of environmental policies and an independent review of processes, we have become dedicated to reducing our carbon footprint through a number of measures and have a Green Team of employees to implement the plans and encourage suggestions from all employees. We have started on a process to achieve environmental management system accreditation to ISO14001, recognised as the international standard for environmental management systems.

Achievements to Date

Implementation of Castle’s Environmental Policy has resulted in the following achievements:

  • Implementing VMware virtualisation software, reducing electricity usage;
  • Promoting and selling VMware and thin client software to many customers,
    reducing electricity usage;
  • Delivering more software demonstrations via Webinars reducing the need
    to visit sites;
  • Recycling paper – so far saving over 5 tonnes from landfill;
  • Purchasing recycled paper for printing;
  • Swapping delivered plastic water containers for filtered mains water;
  • Swapping plastic cups with glass tumblers;
  • Recycling plastic bottles;
  • Recycling cans;
  • Recycling ink cartridges and toners;
  • Recycling batteries;
  • Recycling cardboard
  • Using a stationary and consumables supplier where all profits go to
    charities working in developing countries, including environmental projects;