Corporate Responsibility

Incidents and Prosecutions

In 2007 we are pleased to report that we did not have any major environmental incidents or prosecutions. 

Biodiversity

We recognise the importance of wildlife and the habitats that support it.  Several years ago we worked in partnership with the leading conservation organisation The Wildlife Trusts to develop a corporate biodiversity strategy. Because our land holdings do not make a significant contribution to biodiversity conservation, our strategy involved ensuring we comply with relevant legislation that protects wildlife, raising awareness of biodiversity issues, minimising pollution arising from our operations and having robust emergency response procedures.

Waste Management

Non-hazardous waste is generated by our customers and offices.  We have introduced award winning recycling programmes which we are rolling out across our business units. Overall the percentage of waste not going to landfill is around 15% although this is difficult to accurately estimate as our non-hazardous waste collection are not generally weighed individually so we rely on estimates using average weights for different containers.  We plan to increase the quantity of waste recycled.

Nearly 95% of our hazardous waste is recycled.

Water Consumption

In our bus operations all our wash plants are partially recycling - we use 55 m3 of water per bus per year.  We have plans to introduce new technology which we hope will dramatically reduce this.