Stowood Scientific Instruments Limited
Environmental Policy
Mission statement
At Stowood we recognise that the environment is important to our staff and our customers. We recognise our responsibility to manage our environmental impacts carefully. We are committed to reducing our environmental impacts and continually improving our environmental performance as an integral part of our business strategy and operating methods, with regular review points. We will encourage customers, suppliers and other contacts to do the same.
Policy aims
We endeavour to:
- Incorporate environmental considerations into our business decisions.
- Continually improve and monitor our own environmental performance.
- Promote environmental awareness among our staff, customers and suppliers.
Policy priorities
1. Carbon footprint
- We will measure and report our business carbon footprint on an annual basis.
- We will implement measures to significantly reduce the intensity of our carbon emissions on an annual basis.
2. Our products
- We will continue to seek ways of reducing the environmental footprint of our products through their full lifecycle,
- including through efficiencies in design, efficiencies in use and increasing the use of recyclable materials.
3. Transportation and travel
- We will seek to reduce the carbon emissions arising from the transportation of our products, including through avoidance of air transportation wherever possible.
- We will apply a principled approach to business travel through avoiding unnecessary travel, promoting more sustainable forms of transport to our staff and facilitating their use.
- We will continue to apply a hybrid working model to minimise the emissions from commuting.
4. Packaging
- We will seek to reduce the environmental footprint of the packaging of our products, including through efforts to reuse packaging and increase the use of recycled materials.
Our Environmental Management System
We have developed an Environmental Action Plan to ensure we meet the requirements of this policy.
The Environmental Action Plan, together with this policy, comprises our Environmental Management System (EMS). Our certification is maintained through an annual audit. We will update this policy at least annually.