This environmental policy outlines Solve's commitment to reducing its impact on the environment and provides a framework for setting objectives and targets to improve your environmental performance.
Solve is an environmentally and socially driven SEO and web design studio that aims to promote positive change within the tech industry.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Solve’s policy is to always conduct business with integrity, responsibility and respect for the interests of all stakeholders. We believe our activities should generate and promote economic benefits and create opportunities for a better quality of life.
Always respect the environment and positively influence all areas in which we operate.
Solve recognises that activities undertaken or managed on behalf of our clients and those using our studio space impact the environment. In all our activities, working practices and business relationships, our company is committed to protecting, conserving and enhancing all aspects of the environment it controls or influences to minimise this impact and continually improve our performance.
Solve shall ensure compliance with all relevant environmental legislation and regulations and take action to minimise and continuously improve its environmental performance and prevent pollution across all its activities, products and services.
OUR ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ARE:
- Running all web hosting and digital servers on renewable energy
- Carbon Audits every financial year
- Local or eco-certified suppliers, where possible
Minimising:
- Electrical Usage – by using 100% Renewable Energy
- Water usage
- Waste and recycling
- Commuting – by working from home regularly
- Travel to and from meetings
In particular, our goals are to:
- Take environmental considerations into account when selecting our suppliers and contractors
- Use resources wisely by reducing resource usage
- Improve the efficiency of energy use in our buildings and processes
- Specific targets for the reduction of energy use, year on year, is 5% based on the current team size
- Minimise water use in our buildings and processes (with our landlord)
- Specific targets for the reduction of water usage, year on year, is 5% based on the current team size
- Monitor and record energy, water and waste used or created in our office and operations
- Use of products with a lower environmental impact. This includes recycled stationery and Eco cleaning products
- Recycling plastic, cans, glass, paper, cardboard and ink cartridges
THIS POLICY IS IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT OUR OPERATIONS BY:
- Education – ensuring our team understands the environmental impacts of their jobs
- Informing all suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors of the requirement to comply with this policy when providing goods and services
- Review environmental issues declared by governing bodies and review our policies to align with the evidence.
- Completion of a biennial B Corp Impact Assessment, certification and publication
- Every team member is responsible for sticking to our policies at work and in their daily office activities.
- Solve will raise awareness of environmental issues with our employees regularly and ensure they adhere to our working-from-home policy.
LIMITING CORPORATE TRAVEL:
At Solve, we conduct most of our client calls and presentations over Zoom or Google Meet to reduce our carbon footprint. Clients are welcome to come into the office if they are based locally.
OUR COMMITMENTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS:
- Annually review our Environment Policy and practices to ensure we reach our targets and improve our operations to be in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
- Continuous education to learn from experts in environmental management
- Being responsive to the environmental needs of our local community and industry
- Encouraging positive change in a way in which all of the Solve team share this commitment.
