ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Trees are a renewable resource and should be managed sustainably to the benefit of the environment. Trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and they do this best when they are young and growing. As well as being the lungs of the Earth, trees, when properly managed, provide wildlife habitats and enhance the landscape.
As a forward thinking and environmentally aware business, we make our living dealing with trees and have a moral and financial obligation to conduct all our activities in the best interest of the environment. In all its activities, working practices and business relationships, North West Tree Services consciously works towards protecting, conserving and enhancing all aspects of the environment both locally and globally. It will conduct its own activities and operations to reflect best environmental practice and implement an environmental management system to pursue adaptability and continual improvement. To do this North West Tree Services will:
· Regularly assess and understand the environmental impact of its business and specific contracts and take steps to minimise these impacts.
· Meet all the necessary regulatory and consent requirements pertaining to its business including the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
· Continue to understand environmental issues and in particular those which are of direct relevance to its business, in particular the non-contamination of water sources when working adjacent to them.
· Ensure adequate protection if afforded to certain species of wildlife when undertaking tree work in accordance with the Wildlife and Countryside Act, paying particular attention to all species of Bat.
· Continue to raise awareness of all its employees, the effect of their actions and their responsibility to the environment.
· Minimise its environmental impact by the operation of suitable minimisation and recycling schemes.
· Manage its business premises in an environmentally sensitive manner.
· Make use of, wherever practicable, best environmental practice when planning and developing new and existing operations.
· Monitor the use in its products of chemical compounds hazardous to the environment and where practicable use materials that have least impact on the environment.
· Using biodegradable chainsaw oil in all instances.
· Reduce waste and promote reuse and recycling within its organisation.
· Ensure it does not use peat that has been extracted from Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
· Continue to improve efficiency in its use of energy.
· Ensure efficiency in its use of water.
· Set environmental targets, monitor results and review on a regular basis.