Carbon Offsetting
By providing a service for clients to allow for reuse of their redundant IT assets, the client is allowing the saving of material resources, which would have been required to build new IT equipment. This, in turn, results in a saving of carbon emissions.
EOL is very aware of the impact of its own activities and that working on a zero landfill policy is not the end of the matter. We need to address the carbon emissions created by our processing procedures and our fleet of vehicles.
We operate an efficient logistics strategy with effective traffic management and have received the endorsement of The CarbonNeutral Company for the offsetting of our logistics carbon emissions for our vehicle fleet.
This means that EOL is “CarbonNeutral®” for all its collections and deliveries.
The CarbonNeutral Company has calculated our annual transportation C02 emissions and we have chosen to offset these emissions by supporting a major wind farm project in India which is providing enough electricity for 13,500 homes.
The wind farm helps to overcome India’s heavy reliance on coal for its electricity. In addition, much needed employment has been created in the area as local personnel are trained to operate the wind farm.
We have been assessed by Carbon Footprint Ltd. for our processing procedures and they fully endorse the approach of EOL IT Services in reducing the carbon emissions of others by the process of providing reuse for redundant IT assets.
The “Carbon Footprint Approved” programme provides an independently verified way to demonstrate the responsibility of our processes.
We are pleased to have met their criteria and to have received the endorsement of Carbon Footprint Ltd.
EOL is proud to have again received, for the third year in succession, the Business in the Community Big Tick Award in the Eco-Efficiency category.
This endorsement from such an eminent organisation reflects the seriousness with which EOL addresses its own and its clients’ environmental responsibilities.