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Environmental
Policy
We've
been recycling for over 40 years and we didn't even know it as
it seemed the most natural thing in the world as we come from
a generation where we couldn't afford to throw things away. We
have have always found it makes good sound economic sense and
helps keeps our costs down. Approximately
90% of the materials we clear from site during a normal working
week can be easily recycled.
As
garage doors are replaced all the steel is removed and stacked
at our premises until there is sufficient and then taken to the
local scrap yard to be recycled. All
packaging is saved, bagged and stacked separately for recycling.
Timber pallets are kept and reused whenever possible and at the
end of their life they are then cut up and used on our wood burners.
When landscaping any topsoil, rockery, plants, small trees are
recycled whenever possible. If we don't have a use for them we
will try and find someone who may - we have been known to give
away 5-600 tons of topsoil to local farmers, football and rugby
clubs or any one else that will take it free of charge. As we
remove old concrete garages bases, slabs, bricks etc, everything
is separated and taken to our local recycling plant to be crushed
to be reused as good quality hard core. Old timber garages can
be stripped for their frames which can then be reused as pegs
for retaining the 6' x 1' timber frames we need to build our bases.
Any other timber is recycled chipped to be used a mulch or finds
it way back into 8' x 4 sheets of chip board etc.
In
the office we recycle all our office paper e.g. A4 sheets can
be re used in the fax machine and smaller sheets can be cut up
and re used as note paper. Packaging is also reused wherever possible.
We
are constantly evolving our environmental policy as we become
aware of new recycling opportunities and whenever possible we
like to do business with other like minded companies.
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