Environment
We are committed to reducing our environmental impacts and aim to achieve 10% reductions in energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions and waste generation, and a 5% reduction in water usage by 2015
To do this we have established reporting policies for our environmental metrics which captures data from our warehouses, service centres and offices and we have reduced the size threshold to 20 employees. We believe that these reporting changes provide us with a comprehensive view of our impacts and our recent performance demonstrates that we have achieved significant reductions in all metrics placing us on track to meet our goals.
Our environmental performance through FY2012 continued to be very favourable compared to our baseline year of FY2010. We achieved significant reductions in all metrics, already exceeding our FY2015 goals. Our intention is now to establish new multi-year goals to reflect this outperformance.
| Target (FY2010-FY2015) | 2012 progress against FY2010 | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 16% reduction | |
| 10% reduction over five years | ||
| Greenhouse gas emissions | 19% reduction | |
| 10% reduction over five years | ||
| Total non-recycled waste | 18% reduction | |
| 10% reduction over five years | ||
| Water consumption | 19% reduction | |
| 5% reduction over five years | ||
- Read more about how our businesses are working to reduce their environmental impact in our case studies section.