Are you just keen to be seen to be green
or do you want to make a real difference and go like us?
At JBL, we have been doing our bit to be environmentally responsible for many years now, but are you doing yours?
Don’t think that by just using recycled paper that you are!
If you do believe that you can make a difference then you have to look beyond the ordering of a few green products.
It goes way beyond that…
You also need to look at how much waste you generate; how you can reduce it, what you do with it; what items you do buy; where you buy them from and your supplier’s business practice and their supply chain.
Then you can really start to make a difference.
Only JBL can claim to be Oxfordshire’s
most environmentally friendly office supplier…
We recognise our responsibility to respect the environment and will strive to achieve environmental best practice throughout our business activity. We believe that everyone has a duty of care for the environment and to seek ways to conserve natural resources. We are conscious of environmental issues and we believe that the pursuit of economic growth can be linked to ecological protection. In pursuit of our business goals, we will seek to minimise the wastage of raw materials and energy, and to minimise harmful emissions resulting from our activities.
Practicing What We Preach
JBL have adopted the following five principles and where possible have incorporated them into our every day business practice and encourage our suppliers and customers to do the same.
1. RESPECT the environment during our every day tasks
2. REVIEW the ecological impact of our business activity
3. REFORM our supply chain to consider the environment
4. REDUCE waste by reusing as much as possible
5. RECYCLE scrap material wherever possible
Reclaimed Packaging
As an eco-conscious company, JBL uses reclaimed packaging for the despatch of customer’s orders wherever possible.
Reclaimed packaging is less marketable in today’s commercial world than declaring the use of boxes made from some recycled material, but this is just our way. It makes good sense to us to reuse packaging where at all possible as the impact to the environment is truly minimised.
Rest assured however, that although your order may arrive in a box that has been used before, it will be clean and strong enough to get to you safely with the individual items inside in absolute pristine condition.
Electronic Trading Reduces Your Operating Costs and Waste Paper
JBL actively encourage our customers to trade electronically where possible in order to minimise time and reduce paperwork.
Options include on-line ordering, e-mail communication, BACS payments, product data catalogues, and website downloads such as COSHH Data safety sheets and brochures, etc.
Recycling Where We Cannot Reuse
We recycle ALL suppliers’ board and cardboard packaging, and have an industrial pulp bin on site for disposal where material collected from customers is of little use.
ALL office paper waste is recycled, and we insist that all suppliers collect all pallets for reuse. All surplus materials are collected by registered local companies for recycling.
JBL boast the most comprehensive range in Oxfordshire of recycled, environmentally friendlier and fair trade products for your office.
Click our green catalogue
Recycling Toner Scheme
JBL operate a toner cartridge recycling scheme for our local customers and ourselves, where all proceeds go to local charities.
For a FREE starter pack please click on this icon or call 01865 739 056
We deplore the increasing use of shrink wrap/ pallet wrap plastic packaging by our suppliers and continue to monitor the development of recycling of this material in order that we are no longer forced to send such material for landfill disposal.
Where we can influence environmentally sound purchasing we will. The estimated 41 million sheets of paper we purchase annually are guaranteed to be manufactured from sustainable forests, or from recycled pulp.
It is acknowledged that we have no purchasing influence on many products (e.g. cartridges) where global manufacturers will move production from country to country on a regular basis based purely on economic reasons. The Company monitors the manufacture of such products, and will lobby the relevant trade organisation should there be a perceived human or civil rights issue.
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