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Environmental
WFW is fully committed to reducing the impact of all our activities on the natural environment. We are currently refurbishing the offices in London and are ensuring that we use wood from sustainable sources and as many recycled materials as possible. We will be using infra-red technology which will switch lights on and off depending on office occupation at any given time.
One of the key sectors where we consider ourselves to be legal service market leaders is the Renewables sector. We are involved in many onshore and offshore wind farm projects, as well as waste to energy and solar power projects.
One new step the firm took in 2007 was to switch its car/taxi service to Lewis Day's Green Tariff. Toyota Prius hybrid cars have now replaced traditional powered saloons for the transportation of WFW staff, redcuing our motor vehicle carbon footprint by aproximately 33%. The Prius produces 104g CO2 per km compared with 284g CO2 per km in the cars the firm previously used.
Our awareness poster for minimising our environmental impact in the workplace can be seen below:
We have been working with Paper Round (www.paper-round.co.uk) and through them, Trees For Cities (a charity set up in 1993). Together we have developed our recycling initiative. We have a number of recycling points around the office collecting different types of materials.
Recylcing Report (to date) for 2007 |
 | Aug-Sep '07 | Apr-Jun '07 | Jan-Mar '07 |
| Paper | 14,355kg | 10,446kg | 9,950kg |
| Glass | 135kg | 135kg | 405kg |
| Cans & Plastic | 110kg | 115kg | 178kg |
This year we have saved the equivalent of:
- 466 trees
- 33,660 kWh of energy
- 20,420 kg CO2
Our certificate from Paper Round is shown below:
Employees can purchase bikes to get to and from work or their local station at very attractive discounts enabled through the tax system.
WFW has also received a Transport for London (TfL) grant towards additional showers and a number of free bikes. WFW allows employees to claim business mileage rates when bikes are used for business purposes.
The firm continues to look at ways of improving its environmental impact on the business world in which we operate in. This will entail understanding the size of our carbon footprint and working on ways to counter this.
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