Eco-efficiency and Waste

We judge our CO2 emissions to be our most significant environmental impact.  However, we also actively manage a number of others that are covered by our policy, particularly our production of waste and recycling.  In our Nottingham offices these are both included under our ISO 14001 accreditation, meaning that the figures are measured annually with targets set for reduction.  Staff awareness campaigns such as ‘Bin the Bin’ have promoted recycling.

Many of our offices have systems for recycling and recovering waste, including paper and printer and toner cartridges.  Staff in our Dublin headquarters have taken the first steps towards instating a clothes recycling programme in support of the Chernobyl Children’s International Project (CCIP)

Eiger has reduced dependency on direct mail in exchange for email shots.

Paper sourcing is being addressed in many of our locations. Serasa uses paper that is a mix of 25% urban waste and 75% internal waste for both internal and external communication materials. In the US our Allen and McKinney centres use 50% recycled paper in all copiers and printers. In the UK’s offices we have recently switched to paper that uses 23% less energy, 18% less wood and 14% less water in its manufacture than standard 80g.m2 paper.

In the dry south of the US, water conservation is a significant issue, and the offices in Allen have saved over 500,000 litres of water by installing waterless urinals.