At BGB, putting together our Environmental and Sustainability policy showed us that a number little changes can make a difference.  As a famous supermarket states, every little helps.

This month’s Little Changes Add Up (#littlechangesaddup)  was to look at our office waste, and see how we could do better.  So, we’ve installed recycling bins throughout the office and breakout areas.  All cans, food packaging, cardboard, and paper is now being collected rather than going to a landfill.  The recycling then gets taken to the Ilford Recycling Centre.  There, it is processed through a Material Recovery Facility which separates the materials from each other by a combination of trommel screens, air separators, magnets and manual sorting. Bales are made of the separated materials and sold on for reprocessing. When materials are reprocessed, they are washed then pulped or melted so they can be reformed into a new product. 

For more information about other changes we’ve made and are making, please take a look at our Environmental and Sustainability policy.