Sustainability
Sustainability means different things to different people.
For The Flagstaff Group, sustainability encompasses all. From the people we employ, to the customers and NDIS participants we support, through to our business processes, finance and performance, sustainability becomes part of our culture and the way we do things.
At Flagstaff sustainability is everyone’s responsibility. By embedding sustainability in our everyday practices, our intent is to provide long term value for our customers, the wider community, and most importantly, the longevity and sustainability of our business.
People continue to be at Flagstaff’s core, providing life skills and work for people with a disability and delivering a world that only sees abilities. The support of our employees is highly valued, monitored and continually reviewed.
Flagstaff understands the role it must play in contributing to society with respect to sustainability, longevity and continuous improvement.
Our Commitment
Our commitment is to:
- Reduce the adverse environmental impact we make through our travel patterns and working practices
- Reduce, as far as is practicable, the adverse environmental effect of our services
- Use our influence as a purchaser to specify environmentally friendly goods and services as far as is practicable
- Use our influence with customers as a supplier of sustainable services to promote the merits of adopting sustainable practices
- Investigate opportunities to provide innovative waste management solutions to our customers
Action Principles
Our environmental management practices include:
- A commitment towards taking initiatives and supporting any initiatives taken by business divisions and individuals
- Seeking continual improvement of our environmental performance
- Involving all business divisions in the development and implementation of sustainability policies
- Ensuring that we respond promptly and take full account of sustainability concerns expressed by stakeholders
- Assessing all new policies, activities and practices for their effects on the environment
- Ensuring that employees and contractors working for us uphold our environmental standards, and are aware of their responsibilities under this sustainability policy
- Monitoring performance and compliance
Words in Action
Flagstaff is committed to practise sustainable and eco-friendly business practises.
- Recycling is a core business activity where we encourage businesses in our community to recycle paper, cardboard and soft plastic. We then sort, process and bale the items for recycling.
- We advocate and lead by example the education and collection of sorting of recycling office paper and cardboard material
- All our businesses recycle paper, cardboard and soft plastics with recycling bins placed across the business.
- Solar energy is used to operate our recycling depot.
- Our commercial laundry uses the most up to date machinery for energy efficiency as well as environmentally friendly chemicals and practises.
- Our Life Choices cooking programs use paddock to plate methodologies to show participants about growing their own fresh ingredients for their cooking.
- Water tanks assist with water collection in our laundries.
- Eco friendly packaging is used in our Fine Foods containers.
- Recycling book and clothes programs through the Community Street Library and Clothes Library.
- We continue to provide work skills development through our construction course using waste pallets for building furniture and wooden items.
- Flagstaff Print, Mail and Digital recycle all paper items and utilise unused small paper bundles for small jobs
- Flagstaff manages energy usage using energy efficient light bulbs, smart meters for solar use, purchase of energy efficient equipment and maintaining our equipment for effective use.
How we can help other businesses
- Cardboard and Paper Recycling (links)
- Secure Shredding
- Film & Plastics
- Box of Destruction
For further information call (02) 4272 0222 or email marketing@flagstaffgroup.com.au
