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Severnside Recycling
Roofing roadshow
Severnside Recycling is the largest fibre recycler in europe, harvesting around
1.9 million tonnes of paper and packaging annually from uK waste streams
from its 17 recycling facilities around the country. Customers benefit from a
wide range of collection possibilities, ranging from simple collections of paper
and cardboard through to a total waste management service.
Severnside is part of the DS Smith Group, a multinational corrugated
packaging and paper company which also owns St Regis Paper Mills, the uK’s
leading manufacturer of packaging grade paper. the relationship between
these three companies provides a unique closed recycling loop to customers
- Severnside recovering the paper and packaging, providing fibre to
feed the production process at St Regis, which in turn provides the
packaging materials for D S Smith.
all businesses produce waste and arranging for its disposal and the Sarnafil team recently hit the road with the
complying with legal requirements can be costly and time consuming. Waste ‘Green Roofing Roadshow’, a special event aimed
disposal costs can be up to 5% of a company’s annual turnover and those exclusively at Sarnafil’s contractor network to
currently sending their waste straight to landfill should be aware that these costs highlight the advantages and accessibility of
are about to rise as a result of the landfill Directive. every aspect of Severnside’s installing living roofs.
business is driven to divert as much waste from landfill as possible. travelling from Dunblane in Scotland to
Severnside has the experience to manage all waste management birmingham, bath and Cambridge, the roadshow
services anywhere in the uK. its total waste management system starts presentations attracted over 100 delegates from
with a comprehensive waste management audit to benchmark against best more than 40 companies. Speakers including
practice and for measuring financial performance of existing activities. an green roofing specialist Dr alun Rhys tarr
implementation plan follows to include activity such as equipment sourcing, from blackdown Horticultural Consultants and
health and safety training and staff process induction. Sarnafil’s heads of technical, applications and
Severnside is then able to effectively co-ordinate all waste management marketing discussed the merits of green roofs as
activities. Such activities can include managing existing service providers as an a sustainable, high-performance and aesthetically-
agent, managing changeover of contractors, providing helpdesk support for pleasing roofing solution.
waste and recycling issues, as well as implementing the recycling and landfill
n www.sarnafil.co.uk
reduction plans.
Finally, performance management,
in terms of cost savings
to the customer and
Heathrow Express
realising value added
opportunities and
eco energy
customer relationship
management to assure
Since its launch in 1998, Heathrow
that a quality assured
express has not only established itself
services is achieved
as the first choice for passengers
and sustained.
seeking the quickest way to and from
n
www.severnside.com Heathrow airport, but also over that
decade has regenerated enough energy, to have
boiled 400,000,000 kettles.
Heathrow express’s friendly approach to the
Shop Direct opts for Plogg
environment began even before the service was
in operation. the electrification of the line from
Paddington station enabled Heathrow express to
the uK’s leading online and home shopping retailer, Shop Direct Group, has gone
purchase carbon-efficient electric trains (class 332
hi-tech in a bid to reduce its energy wastage and Co2 emissions. the company has
electrical Multiple units) that were fitted with electrical
used Plogg, the plug-in wireless energy meter from energy optimizers, to achieve
regenerative brakes. a regenerative brake is a
electricity savings worth £500 per year for each of the refrigerators at its new
mechanism that reduces vehicle speed by converting
headquarters in Speke, liverpool. unlike most smart meters, Plogg can monitor
some of its kinetic energy into another useful form of
the energy consumption of individual appliances over time and it is this feature that
energy. in 2006 Heathrow express was one of the
has enabled the savings to be identified and implemented.
first train companies to be accredited the iSo 14001
the move has also reduced Shop Direct's Co2 emissions by 22 tonnes annually.
standard. the standard requires Heathrow express
During 2007, the retailer embarked on a group-wide energy efficiency drive to
to demonstrate continual improvement and outlines
clamp down on unnecessary energy costs and carbon emissions. initially all the
requirements for determining environmental aspects;
lighting was changed to low-power leDs and enforced out-of-hours auto-shutdown
impacts of products/activities/services; planning
was implemented on desktop PCs.
environmental objectives and measurable targets;
Shop Direct Group plans to use Plogg to identify
implementation and operation of programs to meet
further cost savings across its sites, including its two
objectives and targets and checking and corrective
customer data centres.
action and management review.
n www.plogg.co.uk
n www.heathrowexpress.com
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