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OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT BOUNDARY

GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS (also referred to as CO2 equivalent – CO2e – emissions)

SCOPE 1 DIRECT

Leckford Estate farming emissions

Company-owned vehicles

Refrigeration and cooling direct emissions

Fuel combustion

SCOPE 2 INDIRECT

Purchased electricity for own use

Employee business travel (excluding company vehicles – see scope 1)

Unrecycled waste disposal

Emissions associated with third-party contract distribution

OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARY

Production of goods, customer usage and waste

Employee commuting

Customers’ travel to stores

Stores operated under franchise or licence arrangements (see Branching out on page 4)

Third-party providers to Greenbee and other areas of our business

Production of purchased materials


Partnership carbon footprint (%) 2008/09

Electricity 54.5%
Gas 10.5%
Distribution 12.1%
Refrigeration and cooling direct emissions 16.1%
Business rail and air travel 0.4%
Business miles in company cars 0.7%
Unrecycled waste and waste collections 3.6%
Leckford Farm 2.0%


Reducing our impacts

We remain committed to using energy as efficiently as possible in our buildings and equipment, and using renewable resources where we can (see page 25).

We are committed to limiting the impacts our commercial fleet and company cars have on the environment (see page 26).

We are committed to halving the impact of our refrigeration and cooling direct emissions (see page 27).

We work hard to reduce the waste we create. As well as developing solutions for diverting waste from landfill by recycling, we help our customers to do the same (see page 29).