Environmental Policy

Franklins Solicitors LLP are committed to providing a quality service in a manner that ensures a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and minimises our potential impact on the environment. We will operate in compliance with all relevant environmental legislation and we will strive to use pollution prevention and environmental best practices in all that we do.

We will:-

• Integrate the consideration of environmental concerns and impacts into our decision making and activities, where possible.
• Promote environmental awareness among our employees and encourage them to work in an environmentally responsible manner.
• Inform our employees about environmental issues that may affect their work.
• Reduce waste through re-use and recycling and by purchasing recycled, recyclable or re-furbished products and materials where these alternatives are available, economical and suitable.
• Promote efficient use of materials and resources throughout our facility, including water, electricity and other resources, particularly those that are non-renewable
• Avoid unnecessary use of hazardous materials and products, seek substitutions when feasible and take all reasonable steps to protect human health and the environment when such materials must be used, stored and disposed of.
• Communicate our environmental commitment to our clients and the public and encourage them to support it
• Periodically review our environmental policy to ensure that we are doing all we can to minimise our impact on the environment.

Schedule of Recycling

Drink cups collected and recycled into office products

Confidential paper collected, shredded and recycled

Envelopes and non-confidential paper collected for recycling

Old videos collected for recycling

Used light bulbs collected for recycling

Used stamps sent to charity who then use them to raise cash

Schedule of Energy Saving

Shut down computers daily

Switch off monitors

Switch off copiers/printers

Switch off fans, heaters, chargers

Put screensaver on PC

Turn off lights

Do not print unnecessarily

Print double-sided where possible

Communication by email where possible

Last Updated: 14 May 2009