Saftronics - Looking Forward

Saftronics has set environmental objectives to further reduce our carbon footprint, without having a negative impact on our product realisation.

Our activities to help achieve this include:

Monthly monitoring of energy and water consumption - feeding into initiatives to reduce consumption where possible, such as:

Less than 2% of our waste goes to landfill - Our present main waste contractor’s ‘Energy from Waste’ (EfW) Plant recovers the energy from the waste by incineration. The heat produced is used to raise steam in their boiler, which is then used to power the turbine they have on site. The turbine drives a generator, which produces some 11,000,000 watts of power for the local electricity network. The ferrous metal from the incineration is recycled, the ash is sent to Ballast Phoenix. Ballast Phoenix then recover all the remaining metal still in the ash. The remaining ash is then normalised, and used for building aggregate (breeze block manufacturing, for example). The fly ash, or residue from the process, which amounts to around less than 2% is currently stored in a salt mine. However, they are in the final stages of agreeing to have the fly ash normalised and used in gypsum recycling. This will reduce the unrecovered residue from the process to less than 1%.

Reduced Business Mileage / Fuel Consumption
Simple yet effective steps yield reductions in the time spent on the road, and the fuel needed for the journey:

Migrating vehicles to low emission models, and downsizing where appropriate;
Combining Satnav and gps tracking / mapping services to allow efficient routing of service personnel;
Expanding remote access services to reduce the need for return-to-base visits;
Encouraging the use of web and video conferencing;

We will continue to encourage, motivate and train all our staff to play a full part in minimising our environmental impact.

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