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Second Environment Audit Puts Ductwork Experts in Leading Position

Renewing their ISO 14001:2004 accreditation with Lloyds Quality Assurance for a second year, ductwork manufacturer and contractor, Senior Hargreaves, is reporting that their environmental management system (EMS) has made a positive impact in all areas of their business.

The accreditation is a blueprint for companies to reduce their environmental impact and involves looking at all material and energy inputs to the business, all waste streams and all internal processes. The simple aim is to reduce material inputs and waste outputs so that carbon dioxide emissions, energy use and materials going to landfill are all continuously reduced.

“The programme has positive benefits for the company,” explained Hargreaves director Dave Lutkevitch. “Far from being a burden and a cost, it contributes to greater competitiveness, gives all our people something positive to focus on and is a great morale booster. Externally, it conveys positive messages to our clients and partners – that we are a forward thinking and environmentally responsible company.”

There have also been tangible reductions in energy use, carbon footprint and waste. To take the reduction in waste as a just one example, the company has reduced material going to landfill by 30 tonnes in the last year. This has required 15 fewer collections, giving a direct monetary saving of £2430. The reduced waste handling, transport and disposal is equal to saving of 13.4 tonnes of carbon emissions. The programme so far has saved at total equivalent of 48.2 tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere.

Hargreaves separates out distinct waste streams so that metal, plastics and so on go to specialised re-processors for recovery. The general commercial waste that remains is taken away by specialist waste processors Wheeldon Brothers who hand sort the waste to recover around 80 percent of the material so that only the irreducible minimum goes into landfill.

“In the construction industry there is an increasing expectation by clients that we will have an environmental policy. We are ahead of many competitors by having accreditation for our EMS and proof of its effectiveness,” explained environment manager Gary Bell. “It is important to view the EMS, like the pursuit of quality, as a journey not just a one-off set of changes. As we move further into this I feel confident that we will see increasing benefits as more minds are exercised on making change."

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Senior Hargreaves, Lord Street, Bury, Lancashire BL9 0RG, UK

Release issued: August 25, 2009

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Commercial waste from Senior Hargreaves is taken away by specialist waste processors Wheeldon Brothers who hand sort the waste to recover around 80 percent.

Senior Hargreaves has reduced material going to landfill by 30 tonnes in the last year. So far the environmental programme has saved at total equivalent of 48.2 tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere.

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