1. Summary
Montash Limited are a low impact business. We strive to achieve excellence in every aspect of our business operations and are committed to making choices that are good for the environment, our people, customers, partners and our business.
That is why we have committed to set near and long-term company-wide goals.
In FY22 we conducted a review with EcoAct a Climate Consultancy that takes clients along their NetZero journey. This review allowed us to better understand how to achieve our goals and objectives.
We manage and operate our business in line with our values, high ethical standards, and environmental legislation. . We are committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment for our people, partners and visitors. We are committed to comply with health and safety regulations, legislation and to acknowledge health and safety as a core value.
2. Our commitment
- Reduce our carbon footprint and emissions.
- We expect our vendors to demonstrate a commitment to responsible operations.
- Manage waste generated from our operations through the use of reduce, re-use and recycle programmes.
- Give sufficient consideration to environmental issues (such as biodiversity) and energy performance in the acquisition, design, refurbishment, location and use of buildings.
- Continue to encourage and facilitate modes of transport by staff and Members which minimise environmental impact.
- Reduce water and energy consumption.
- Promote a purchasing policy which will give preference, as far as practicable, to those products and services which cause the least harm to the environment.
- Avoid wherever practical the use of environmentally damaging substances, materials and processes.
- Encourage Member organisations to adopt environmentally sensitive policies with regard to all aspects of their businesses.
3. How we will meet our commitments
- Regularly review our environmental policy.
- Engage with stakeholders frequently, including communicating our environmental policy and performance on a regular basis.
- Communicate and promote the importance of environmental sustainability to our people.
- Minimise the use of plastics throughout the office, for example providing all staff with re-usable bottles.
- Our office real estate is leased and where possible we work closely with the property owners to understand and optimise sustainability.
- Our offices only utilise 100% renewable electricity.
- Lighting are motion sensitive and there for will automatically turn off within a certain time period of inactivity to ensure a reduction of energy consumption.
- Partner with a technology recycle programme to cut back on decommissioning of hardware such as laptops, monitors and keyboards.
- All air conditioning units are on timers to ensure they are turned off outside of working hours.
- Review our facilities and its partners to ensure we promote the use of environmentally friendly products, reducing impact and waste.
- Use of printing paper, made solely from 100% waste papers and biomass steam with only 6% waste generated during production. Blue Angel and Ecolabel certified.
- Commit to green initiatives - we currently facilitate clothes, battery, paper and waste recycling points and book swaps. We intend to launch a carbon sequestration initiative via tree planting using agroforestry in FY23.
- Responsible waste disposal – office waste goes to an energy-from-waste facility. LondonEnergy then generate electricity from the waste for the national grid – enough to power 80,000 homes/businesses.
- Recycling goes to Biffa Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) who sort each different material and then send it to reprocess who will recycle it into something new.
If you would like to report or raise a concern about anything outlined in this policy or have observed or are aware of a violation in relation to the above best practice, please reach out to the Operations department in writing at mishria@montash.com. We will review, investigate, respond and take appropriate action.
