Today is Global Recycling Day; a day founded to help recognise, and celebrate, the importance recycling plays in preserving our precious primary resources and securing the future of our planet. Here at Landmarc, minimising our environmental impact by managing waste responsibly has always been high on our agenda.
Today is Global Recycling Day; a day founded to help recognise, and celebrate, the importance recycling plays in preserving our precious primary resources and securing the future of our planet. Here at Landmarc, minimising our environmental impact by managing waste responsibly has always been high on our agenda.
This is something we at Landmarc firmly believe in, having set ourselves a target to recycle 70% of waste by 2020 and ensure that less than 5% of our waste is disposed to landfill each year. Ultimately, our aim is to achieve zero waste to landfill, coordinating effort and investment into sustainable waste management to achieve this. However, meeting these targets requires commitment, both in training and from the operational staff who do the hard work at the frontline.
In April 2017, Landmarc launched a new Sustainability Strategy using the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for prioritising action. With the framework still firmly in place, our goals seek to mobilise efforts around a common set of targets, covering a wide range of topics such as poverty, health, education and climate change. These goals helped inform our approach to sustainable waste management, as well as the Greening Government Commitments and Sustainable MOD Strategy.
To support this, Landmarc has committed considerable investment and staff resource into developing an effective approach, which includes investment in eight waste sorting stations; a renewed focus on staff training and development; and partnership working with key stakeholders. But absolutely critical to our success are our passionate operational personnel, who all have a genuine commitment to the cause.
The Waste Sorting Stations (WSS) we manage are key to Landmarc’s approach. Originally established to sift for military debris, the WSS teams are now also adding significant value by segregating waste for recycling and implementing the waste hierarchy. Each site has a nominated waste focal point, responsible for overseeing waste management locally and driving improvements. Our teams are passionate about waste management and pride themselves on delivering a more eco-friendly and cost efficient process.
Landmarc has made a commitment to ensure our teams have the right skills and knowledge to contribute to waste management objectives. As part of a wider drive to develop sustainability skills, the sustainability team has toured the UK delivering waste management training to operational staff involved in handling waste.
Global Recycling Day is realised every day here at Landmarc. We aim to ensure colleagues consider waste as a resource, apply the waste hierarchy, understand legal requirements and the environmental impact of waste, and are equipped to contribute to waste targets. By working together, we can make a real difference in supporting the global recycling industry in order to preserve our planet’s future.