Library Environment & Sustainability Policy

We believe in the power of business and creativity to help address the climate emergency and be an active part of a long-term sustainable solution.  We’ve developed a set of principles for how we work so we can be accountable to ourselves and others.  We work with companies who share similar goals so we can be part of a community of like-minded businesses sharing common, positive aims.

The key points of our policy are:

Make it our mission

• We recognise that safeguarding the environment is central to our success as a business. It’s why we do what we do and guides how we do what we do.

Go beyond

• Exceed all the environmental legislation that relates to our organisation’s responsibilities.
• Apply our principles to the places where we live.
• Use local solutions wherever possible to support community and reduce CO2 emissions.
• Support environmental organisations and charities through pro-bono work and through our profits.
  

Shrink our carbon footprint

• Minimise waste by evaluating our operations and ensuring they are as efficient as possible.
• Benchmark our energy and water consumption and target annual reductions
• Reduce our use of travel and focus on technology and public transport solutions.
• Become a Carbon Aware business with the aim of being Carbon Neutral as soon as we can.
• Actively promote recycling both internally (paperless working, recycling bins, use of green cleaning, ethical brands) and provide environmental guidance to our home-workers, customers and suppliers.
• Minimise toxic emissions through the careful selection of our production partners and the source of our power requirements and suppliers.
  

Get our partners on board

• Choose to actively work with partners who share our common goals.
  

• Include environmental and social accountability into our supplier code of ethics.
• Choose not to work with clients or suppliers who do not have a clear environmental policy in place and who fail to take responsibility for their actions.
• Go as far down the chain as we can

Use creativity

• Encourage clients to creatively address environmental and social issues through their marketing
• Develop our own product range to minimise the environmental impact of both production and distribution.
• Develop creative solutions for clients that help address the environmental impact of their activity.