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We have set ourselves the challenge of reducing our overall emissions every year , going forwards
heavily into the IT infrastructure of our operations departments , which has allowed us to offer a smoother and more efficient service to our customers .”
Sustainability initiatives
A number of other positive changes have been made over the last few years , in terms of modernizing the enterprise ’ s ESG initiatives . More specifically , these have been focused on Birchall ’ s people and environmental policies . “ The business ’ sustainability group is made up of four representatives , each from different departments ,” Nicola explains , “ operations , buying , business support , and marketing . For some time now , we have been working with Climate Partner to calculate our carbon emissions , and when we checked our measurements from 2022 , against those of 2019 , we were absolutely thrilled to see that we ’ d reduced them by a massive 46 percent .
“ There are two key investments that we made to facilitate this reduction ; solar and vehicle electrification , but we ’ re only just getting started . We have set ourselves the challenge of reducing our overall emissions every year , going forwards . Our solar installations have , thus far , lowered our electricity emissions by 49 percent , and our introduction of a greener fleet of vehicles has cut our transport emissions by 38 percent .
“ These new vehicles feature three separate compartments ,” she continues , “ one for chilled , one for frozen , and one for ambient . This improves efficiency as we no longer have to chill the entire back of the vehicle and , furthermore , all of our new additions have air curtains , which help to maintain temperature .
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