Reducing waste

We continue to develop our approach to accurately measure our waste streams. Areas that require increased focus are those where our contractors or retail partners handle waste.

We believe we have already made good progress in our offices where we have established procedures to separate, collect and recycle paper, cans and plastic cups. In 2004/05 we exceeded our Group target to increase the proportion of office waste recycled by 10 per cent. In total this amounted to 2,827 tonnes of waste, of which 48 per cent was recycled. We have also identified other waste streams that can be recycled and have established a specific process to manage computer waste for our UK offices.

Recycling of general waste in 2004/05

We are working with a partner that actively seeks innovative solutions to IT recycling, which includes a total solution for recycling cathode ray tubes from computer screens. Other initiatives are IT waste recycling facilities and installation of refurbished equipment in schools in developing countries.