Why go green?
Offices are one of the key culprits when it comes to carbon emissions and causing environmental damage. It may seem too hard, too costly or simply inconvenient to go green but even the smallest changes can make a real difference. Apart from the obvious benefits to the environment, you may see other positives come out of a movement to a greener business outlook. Simple changes, such as opening the blinds during the day, instead of constantly relying on artificial lighting, can actually save you money. Same too for reducing the use of the office air conditioner.
Going green, and supporting other like-minded companies, can also help the reputation of your business. In this time of climate change concerns, potential clients can see the benefit in aligning themselves with environmentally aware organisations.
What we’re doing
At Access, we are working with our clients, suppliers and other key stakeholders to offer environmentally responsible partnerships that ensure our initiatives have maximum impact and benefit to all. Our aim is to manage our operations optimally while minimising the impact on the environment and promoting environmental sustainability. Our environmental commitment extends to our storage facility and employees, our transport and retrieval services and our surrounding environment.
We comply with local and national environmental legislation to reduce our carbon footprint, effectively manage our energy consumption and prevent pollution, especially that associated with air emissions and waste production.
Our Environmental Responsibility (CSR)
What you can do
While all-day air conditioning, lighting and computers can often seem like unavoidable office evils, recycling is one area where, with a little effort, we can all do our part to help the environment. Using Access’s secure document destruction service not only ensures compliancy with key legislation, but you’ll also be doing your bit for the environment when we recycle the shredded remains.
As businesses move increasingly online, a great opportunity for environmental action is presented. While we may be used to reading information on paper, it is far more environmentally friendly to save the paper and read the document on screen. Particularly when documents are “born digital,” it makes good green sense to avoid pressing print. And don’t be concerned about securely storing your digital files, Access also has a purpose-built data and media storage facility.
