CASE STUDIES
M FAD TO FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE
Jo Moulds
Whale Hall © Natural
History Museum
We are asking our suppliers more and products, you are re-using materials that and effectiveness of our staff, with a
more whether they are also ISO 14001 might otherwise go to landfill. Remarkable positive agenda in terms of our
accredited and therefore by us asking the recycled products are on sale in our shops environmental footprint.
question, we are encouraging others down and each step encourages more. The HQ houses 3,500 people over
the same route. We have 650 computer users here. If seven buildings (0.5m sq ft). From the
If you consider stationery, we meet people all turn their screens off at night, original concept, we were aware of our
with our 35 buyers and the standard these savings add up. Why pay electricity environmental responsibility. Not a
purchase now is an environmental costs for nothing? It all comes down to the lorryload of earth was moved from site –
alternative. If people request pens, they old adage: look after the pennies, and the we wanted to reduce carbon miles in
get a recycled pen. pounds will look after themselves. terms of construction and transport. The
For our vehicles, we are looking at building is designed to benefit from wind
hybrids and ordering them when we MIKE NEWENS, GLOBAL PROPERTY direction. It cools through the night, thus
can. With furniture, we are slowly DIRECTOR, VODAFONE GROUP: In the reducing the need for air-conditioning. It
changing suppliers to those who are UK, we have approximately 10,000 delivers a 60 per cent reduction in terms
looking at more environmental solutions. employees, we operate in approximately of energy use compared with normally-
With energy, we work with the 50 buildings, with 350 retail outlets, a designed, equivalent building.
collaborative government scheme, Office network of telephone exchanges and We use indirect and low-level lighting a76
of Government Commerce Buying 14,000 radio base stations.
Solutions (OGCBS). Globally, we operate out of about
Waterhouse Building
© Natural History
By cutting down our stationery 30 countries, with recent acquisitions Museum
deliveries from five to two a week, we are in Turkey and one going through in
cutting down our carbon emissions from India at the moment. We touch
deliveries. If someone wants something about 200 million customers’ lives –
urgently, they can order it but they pay a that’s an awful lot of people.
surcharge of £10 per rush order, which About 24 years ago, we were
goes towards a tree-planting scheme at 50 employees at Vodafone and
the end of the year. This scheme means mobile telecommunications is
we are saving 45.72kg carbon per week. well-known as a fast-growing
We are also installing combined heat industry. We had to grow fast. Five
& power (CHP) systems, which have years ago, we had the chance to
environmental savings. create a global headquarters in
For us, it’s not just about carbon Newbury, Berkshire. This was our
emissions; it’s also about minimising chance to create a ‘campus’ and we
waste going to landfill. If you buy recycled wanted to improve the efficiency
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