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AWARDED LANDMARK FOODSERVICE MEMBER OF THE YEAR. FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR Registered Office. 8 Park Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife, KY1 3ER Telephone: 01592 652255 Fax: 01592 655531
Company registered in Scotland, no 31736 |
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Environment Policy William Yule is committed to continually improving its Environmental Performance through a process of Pollution Prevention and compliance with appropriate legislation. The main objective is to reduce or minimise any adverse environmental impact from our operations. The Shareholders and Directors have agreed that environmental responsibility is a fundamental core value of the business and that all operational decisions must take environmental impact into account. William Yule has long had a published environmental policy but to ensure that environmental matters are given adequate consideration, periodic updates of progress are to be issued and communicated to all staff with the objective of increasing environmental awareness. KEY AREAS AND PROGRESS MADE TO DATE. C.O.2 EMISSIONS Commercial vehicles are speed restricted to 56 miles per hour. Defensive driver training courses are given to drivers to improve fuel consumption. The company will not pay for fuel when any of its vehicles are being used for private motoring. ENERGY EFFICIENCY We operate a presumption in favour of buying from local sources (e.g. local SMEs are used for butcher meat, fruit and vegetables, milk etc.) All lighting in our depot as been changed to low energy / emission bulbs. All fridge and freezer motors in the depot have been changed and operate with more energy efficient units using eco friendly gas. Freezer units on all new vehicles are belt driven. All diesel vehicles now use bio diesel. WATER CONSUMPTIONS We have relatively low water consumption but store and re-use rain water for washing vehicles. PACKAGING We re-use suppliers packaging whenever possible. We do not repackage goods for onward sale except where Food Safety makes this essential. We comply fully with the Producer Responsibility (Packaging Waste) Obligations Regulations 1995 as amended. We are members of Waste pack UK Ltd. Compliance System. We regularly consult with ECOS Ltd on how to minimise packaging further. WASTE We have a target of cutting the volume of waste sent to landfill by 50% by 2011 by recycling. We are reducing paper waste by eliminating unnecessary printing of emails or reports which are available is soft copy form. We encourage the use of double sided capacity in photocopying. We are currently reviewing the electronic archiving capability of a new computer system being introduced in 2010/11 to reduce the output of paper reports. RECYCLING We have a target of 50% of all waste to be recycled by 2010. All paper for office use is 'Treesaver' or other recycled product. We collect and recycle all office waste paper. We collect and recycle all toner and inkjet cartridges. TRANSPORT All new commercial vehicles are fitted with CRTs (continuously regenerating traps), a combined catalyst and filter system that's substantially reduces emissions of noxious particulates. Our fleet comprises multi temperature vehicles so that ambient, chilled and frozen goods can be made on a single delivery thus reducing food miles. We further aim to reduce food miles by buying from local suppliers and manufactures where possible. We will only tender for local contracts. This will create less food miles than any competitor can achieve. PLASTIC BAGS We will not use plastic bags in packaging our products for customers. All refuse sacks sold by the company are environmental friendly and will degrade within 4 years. We work closely with all of our suppliers to ensure that all plastic containers used to supply and store food are bio-degradable or recyclable. | |||
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