Environmental commitment

Norse Commercial Services is committed to working with its partners, suppliers, service providers and stakeholders in promoting and achieving sustainable development of the environment.

Our environmental policies operate to ISO 14001, and environmental factors are included in decision-making in so far as we have control over the specification of products and materials, the selection of sub-contractors and the management and handling of waste.

The Norse ‘Environmental Management System’ incorporates an aspects register that includes the controls for mitigation, reduction and management of environmental issues and their resulting impacts from all areas of the business within the ISO14001 scope.

A key requirement of the ISO 14001 standard is to ‘continually improve’, implemented at Norse through a Plan, Do, Check and Act cycle.

Four of our most important objectives under this requirement are:
• To reduce mileage emissions by 5% a year (per £1m of turnover) for each year until 2015.
• To train 10% of fleet van drivers in energy efficient driving methods
• To reduce emissions of CO2 from buildings by 5% per unit of floor area in the calendar year 2011 compared to 2010.
• To quantify tonnages and types of general waste at key sites throughout 2011, in order to be able to set waste reduction targets in 2012.

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