Staff training on the new company Sustainability Policy put in place.

1. TRAINING NEW EMPLOYEES
SUSTAINABILITY POLICY
Zara Wines
19/08/2015

2. Sustainability Policy 2015 – 2016
• What is the Sustainability Policy?
• What does the Sustainability Policy mean to
the COMPANY and us as INDIVIDUALS?
• Why is the Sustainability Policy so important?

3. Understanding Sustainability
• What does Sustainable Development mean?
• Who’s responsibility is it to make Mirmidon Ltd. a
more sustainable place?
• Why should we change?
• What is the outcome?

4. Our Sustainability Policy Statement
Mirmidon Ltd is committed to promoting sustainability. Concern for the environment
and promoting a broader sustainability agenda is integral to Mirmidon Ltd’s
professional activities and the management of the organization. We aim to follow
and promote good sustainability practice, to reduce the environmental impacts of all
our activities and to help our clients and partners to do the same.
The Policy is based on the following principles:
• To comply with, and exceed where practicable, all applicable legislation, regulations and
codes of practice.
• To integrate sustainability considerations into all our business decisions.
• To ensure that all staff are fully aware of our Sustainability Policy and are committed to
implementing and improving it.
• To minimize the impact on sustainability of all office and transportation activities.
• To make clients and suppliers aware of our Sustainability Policy, and encourage them to
adopt sound sustainable management practices.
• To review, annually report, and to continually strive to improve our sustainability
performance.

5. Applying these principles through practical steps:
1. Travel and Meetings
• Walk, cycle and use public transport or vehicle share to commute to and from work,
apart from the working day where the company vehicles are required to carry tools and
machinery to and from particular and varied sites.
• Avoid physically travelling to meetings where alternatives are available, such as using
teleconferencing, video conferencing or web cams, and efficient timing of meetings to
avoid multiple trips. These options are often more time efficient, while not sacrificing the
benefits of regular contact with clients and partners.
• To reduce the need to travel to meetings and elsewhere, we will provide a web cam to
clients free of charge for the duration of a project if needed.
• Reduce the need for our staff to travel by supporting alternative working arrangements,
including home working etc, and promote the use of public transport by locating our
offices in accessible locations
• Use an emissions recording scheme for business travel to monitor our impact

6. Applying these principles through practical steps:
2. Purchase of equipment and consumption of resources
• Minimize our use of paper and other office consumables, by double –siding all paper
used and identifying opportunities to reduce waste.
• As far as possible arrange for the reuse or recycling of office waste, including paper,
computer supplies and redundant equipment.
• Reduce the energy consumption of office equipment by purchasing energy efficient
equipment and good housekeeping.
• Seek to purchase electricity from a supplier committed to renewable energy sources,
whilst also supporting investment in new renewable schemes.
• Ensure that timber furniture, and any other timber products are recycled or from
well managed, sustainable sources and are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
certified.

7. Applying these principles through practical steps:
3. Working practices and advice to clients
• Undertake voluntary work with the local community and/ or environmental
organizations and make donations to seek to offset carbon emissions from our
activities
• Associates that we employ take account of sustainability issues in their advice to
clients
• Include a copy of our Sustainability Policy in all our proposals to clients

8. What does Sustainable
Development mean?

9. (Our Common Future, [1987]. The Brundtland Commission, Oxford University Press)
“Sustainable development is the kind of development
that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.”
• economic growth will facilitate their fulfillment
- We live in a capitalist world where money = power
- We ignore something that’s more powerful….
MOTHER NATURE
&
CLIMATE CHANGE
• the needs are basic and essential
- Consumerism society where it’s more more more
“Now you know what it’s like to want”
• equity is encouraged by citizen participation
- Everyone is equal and are stewards to the Earth

10. What are the outcomes for
Mirmidon Ltd.?

11. • Consumers are 58% more likely to buy products or services if the company is mindful of
its impact on the environment.
• Efficiency in operations will increase with better use and conservation of resources
e.g. Computers and lights
• Improve financial and investment opportunities for Mirmidon Ltd.
• Reducing our carbon footprint and improving our efficiency will make us more viable
for the future!
2020: 25% cut on carbon emissions
2050: 50 -80% cut on carbon emissions
• Mirmidon Ltd. Will be seen as a company with high ethics and morals, and will project
a positive example as a COMPANY and as INDIVIDUALS whilst encouraging others to
follow.
• Together we can help build a better future.
Steve Cutts animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfG
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12. Thank You For Listening.
TRAINING NEW EMPLOYEES
SUSTAINABILITY POLICY
Zara Wines
19/08/2015