Working together to protect our environment
Trams is committed to protecting and enhancing local and global environments and ensure that activities are carried out in a sustainable way.
To meet this policy aim, we endeavour to:
- Be aware of all new environmental legislation and regulations
- Comply with all environmental legislation and regulations
- Minimise energy use and its associated CO2 emissions
- Maximise the use of renewable energy sources where possible
- Minimise the generation of waste
- Maximise the re-use of materials and products
- Maximise the use of recycled materials and products
- Maximise the recycling of materials and products
- Minimise raw material consumption
- Maximise the use of material from renewable sources
- Minimise polluting emissions to air, land and water
- Minimise the use of polluting forms of transport
- Assess the environmental impacts of all working practices and product manufacture
- Assess the whole life environmental performance of all purchases
- Maximise the use of local products and local workforce.
- Minimise the use of water
To further the aims of this policy we :
- Provide adequate environmental training for all staff
- Assess the environmental performance of all suppliers
- Develop a set of environmental targets and action plans
- Review this environmental policy and its action plans periodically with a view to continuous improvement
- We are working towards the principles of an Environmental Management System
