Ardent Office Solutions achieves Carbon Smart status

Why did Ardent decide to go Carbon Smart?
 
Tackling climate change is becoming more and more important, and as part of our environmental management programme we felt that reducing, rather than offsetting our CO2 emissions was the correct progressive step to take. As part of our ongoing commitment to this we are continually looking at ways to reduce energy use and improve efficiency. In light of this we have put together a 3 year implementation plan to help us achieve this.

What initial changes have we made to reduce our Carbon Footprint

• All paper, card, printer consumables, packaging and paper waste are recycled where possible
• The use of recycled paper for all marketing material, and internal printed stationery is used where possible
• Implemented additional operating systems to allow all invoices, credits, statements, quotations and purchase orders to be sent electronically
• Improved current customer online ordering facility to allow the electronic ordering of office products, download of invoices, statements and management reports
• Implemented a vehicle tracking management system to enable us to analyse delivery practices to improve distribution efficiency by strategic route planning and reducing customer order frequency

What are our future plans to further reduce our Carbon Footprint

• Further reduce company vehicle CO2 emissions through the use of low emission fuel
• Energy efficient lighting
• The use of energy efficient products
• Switching to a Green Energy provider that provides electricity from a renewable energy like wind, solar, hydro-power and biomass which create little or no CO2 emissions.