Social value report 2025_14'SEP'26 - Flipbook - Page 33
At a Group level, we have adopted ambitious circular economy principles to drive change in both
the way we operate internally as well as our service offering, including:
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98.7% of our office and operational waste was
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Continued supporting Men’s Sheds by donating
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Continued progress towards our 2040 net zero
recovered or recycled. We also installed a waste
surplus materials for reuse in community projects,
target by installing solar on new office buildings in
compactor at our York refurbishment facility to
creating additional social value.
partnership with SolarCentric.
reduce waste collections and transport emissions.
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Our furniture provider, Harlequin has partnered
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Continued working with Elemental Consulting to
Working with our supply chain partners, Danfast,
with Over2Hills who recycle office furniture donated
deliver tangible carbon reductions and data analytics
we expanded our consignment stock system at our
through a closed-loop process.
whilst supporting our SBTi ambition.
Widnes and Hull depots, reducing delivery miles and
emissions by over 30%.
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Mersey Container Services, the main manufacturer of
Continued rolling out reusable transport sheets for
Groundhog, our supplier of self-contained welfare
our most popular modular building system, AVflex,
units, installed a 49.88 kWp solar array and a green
helping eliminate single-use plastics.
roof at its headquarters in Neath to reduce emissions
our AVflex modular building system, installed a 117.92
and to maximise nature gain water retention at the
kWp solar array, reducing manufacturing emissions
and the embodied carbon of our modular buildings.
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factory. They also introduced an online portal for
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Published our first Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
replacement parts and are trialling an app-based
brochure, with LCAs now covering 35% of our
servicing system to improve maintenance efficiency.
portable, modular and welfare offering.
We continue to formally adopt both net zero and circular operational practices to help to reduce
our material usage and associated emissions. Circular economy principles are embedded into both
our working practices and design solutions for modular and portable building systems.
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