ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Aderans UK t/a Trendco’s mission is to create advocates for the planet, envisioning and enabling a future where both people and the planet thrive.

We are committed to protecting the environment and seek to continually improve the environmental performance of our activities by reducing the environmental impacts of all areas of our operations.

This policy will be reviewed periodically to ensure its ongoing suitability for the company.

Aims and objectives

1. Ensure as a minimum standard, full compliance with relevant environmental legislation and other regulations applicable to UK Government departments and other bodies relating to the sustainable use and protection of natural resources.
2. Encourage awareness among employees and visitors of our environmental impacts, environmental conditions that can affect how we operate and legislation applying to our activities.
3. Promote sustainable options for staff and visitor travel and reduce impacts from events and stock transport.
4. Commit to our Waste Management Policy and ensure we monitor waste generation and recycling rates, promote waste minimisation and progressively improve levels of re-use and recycling in all activities.
5. Monitor, manage and reduce mains water at all sites and to detect leaks and inefficient use of this resource.
6. Ensure contractors observe good environmental practice when working on company premises and work with them to improve environmental performance.
7. Encourage suppliers and contractors where possible, through appropriate specifications, to develop and supply environmentally preferable goods and services.
8. Give full consideration to the impact on the environment before committing capital expenditure or entering into any new venture or project.
9. Carry out periodic reviews of environmental management performance and monitor progress against objectives re continual improvement.

Responsibilities

Senior Management

• Overall responsibility to ensure that this environmental policy is effectively applied across the company.
• Approve resources, strategic priorities and policy changes.
• Overall responsibility to ensure that the environmental policy is effectively applied by all employees, contractors and other visitors.
• To receive feedback and recommendations from employees and external bodies on matters concerning environmental management issues.
• Oversee the development of policies, procedures and guidelines for environmental management and sustainability.
• Advise on, and ensure the company has adequate systems and resources in place to ensure best practice environmental management is upheld and ensure environmental performance improvements are embedded into the company’s management and services.
• Manage and coordinate the company’s ongoing commitment to meet the aims and objectives of this policy

Line managers

• Ensure their Department complies with this environmental policy and that environmental management procedures are adhered to.
• Liaise with the senior management team to minimise potential environmental impacts of new projects or activities.

All employees of the company

• All employees are required to understand and comply with this environmental policy and related policies.

Contractors, suppliers and departmental visitors

• Staff responsible for the presence of contractors, suppliers and departmental visitors on company premises are responsible for ensuring they comply with this environmental policy.
• Contractors, suppliers and visitors are required to co-operate fully in achieving the aims of this environmental policy.

Overview

Aderans UK Limited is committed to best practices in waste disposal and management and seeks to comply with local and national legislation as well as taking responsibility for reducing our impact as a company on the environment, by maintaining an effective waste management policy.

Purpose

To align the actions and behaviour of staff with the principles of Aderans UK Limited, with regards to waste disposal, management and recycling.

To raise awareness of the risks associated with poor waste disposal practices, and how to best avoid such risks.

Scope and Compliance

The policy applies to all employees, contractors, consultants and other workers at Aderans UK Limited and its subsidiaries, including all personnel affiliated with third parties.

The policy applies to the disposal of all materials used by Aderans UK Limited.

All persons described above should exercise good judgement regarding disposal of waste and recycling in accordance with Aderans UK Limited policies and standards and local law and regulations.

Non-compliance with policy, deliberate or accidental, may result in disciplinary proceedings for our employees.

General recycling

With our goal in mind to minimise the company’s impact on the environment in regard to disposal of materials it is the company’s policy that as many materials as possible should be recycled where there is provision to do so. Employee responsibilities:

- Site managers seek advice from local councils to ascertain what waste can be recycled and how this is carried out and to display/create signage and/or provide information to employees on site with instructions on how and what to recycle. Most councils have extensive information on their websites as a valuable resource for waste disposal and recycling. A mixed recycling bin for Head Office is held and this is emptied by the cleaner into the communal trade recycling bins provided for the building by the council and any waste that cannot be recycled is placed in another bin which is emptied by the cleaner into the communal trade waste bins.

- All employees are encouraged by management to consider what they are disposing of in general household waste and whether or not this can be recycled by either checking with the local council and/or by checking with their line manager if there are no displayed instructions on site, before placing it in the bin.

Paper recycling

It is the company’s policy that all waste paper should be recycled. If wastepaper contains any personal data this must be treated as confidential waste and must be disposed of in line with company’s procedures around GDPR. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy & Security.

Any physical data classed as sensitive personal data which needs to be disposed of (i.e. data consisting of racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health (i.e. VAT Exemption Forms) or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation) and any sensitive financial data such as debit/credit card information taken manually on site at time of payment (once payment has been approved), is shredded immediately on site using a paper shredder. The shred waste is emptied from the shredder and placed in a blue paper recycling sack, which is collected by paper recycling company Brighton Paper Round. All bulk wastepaper containing any other personal data i.e. name, address, telephone number is placed in a red paper recycling sack which is sealed and recorded and securely shredded by Brighton Paper Round within their own facility.

Cardboard recycling

We encourage that cardboard is recycled wherever possible. Brighton Paper Round conduct weekly collections from our Head Office and Warehouse of any waste cardboard for recycling.

Recycling batteries and other electrical Items

Batteries and electrical items should always be recycled. Site managers seek advice from local councils to find out about recycling such items locally.

Batteries and electrical items for head office are stored and taken to designated drop-off points across the city for recycling.

Non-recyclable non-household waste

For all non-recyclable non-household waste site managers contact their local councils to find out how it can be disposed of safely.

Fly-tipping (leaving waste items in an undesignated public place) is illegal. Any member of staff found to be caught not disposing of company waste correctly will face disciplinary action.

Wigs

As our products go through rigorous quality checking procedures, any that fail quality checking that would otherwise need to be disposed of are cleaned and donated to charities, wig banks, drama/theatrical schools, schools and nurseries and/or are used for training and promotional purposes. Any such donations are authorised by senior management at Head Office before being donated. Due to the nature of the construction of the wigs we sell we cannot recycle them locally.

Reviewed: 22nd July 2024