We’ve always made a difference
Caring for the environment isn’t just something we pay lip service too. Our depth of feeling about sustainability is bottomless. On a personal level, we were brought up thinking about conserving resources, and that almost genetic feeling of responsibility toward the world has flooded through into our adult lives and, more significantly, into how our company is run.
Responsibility in action
So, for example, our stylish office and boardroom are made entirely from second or even third hand materials (except the wall sockets) and the company cars we have are among the lowest carbon emission vehicles available. We operate an obligatory employee car share system too: one car - four people.
So what does it mean for you?
Well, we hope you’ll appreciate how we minimise our impact on the environment without impacting at all on the service we offer you. It’s why we’re a hire company – we reuse where possible. We also incorporate sustainable materials, minimise waste and much more. For further details about our commitment, please read our Environmental Policy Statement below.
Environmental Policy Statement
FDF is committed to promoting sustainability by supplying services and products that are provided to the highest professional standards whilst being energy efficient and involving the economic use of natural resources.
In order to promote good environmental practice throughout the organisation involving all team members, FDF is committed to:
- Identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of our activities
- Using as few new raw materials as possible
- Minimising waste by using materials as efficiently as possible
- Endeavouring to reuse, recover or recycle materials whenever possible
- Wherever possible use sustainable materials (ie wood from sustainable forests)
- Minimising toxic emissions from our production processes (ie using water based paints)
- Minimising toxic emissions from our business transport activities by maximising the efficient use of lorry space
- Minimising toxic emissions from our personal transport by enforcing a car sharing policy
- Operating as a hire company – everything we make gets used and then gets used again and again, not thrown away.
- Ensuring that environmental policies are understood at all levels within the organisation and provide appropriate training where necessary.
- Striving for continual improvement in overall environmental performance
We are now working towards BS8901 sustainable events