The Step System Environmental Policy
Most environmental damage occurs as a consequence of business activity and like us, we expect you are concerned about the environment. That's why we actively recycle and where possible we use materials produced in the most ethical way and every year we make a considerable effort to help absorb carbon emissions and reduce our carbon footprint by planting trees.
Our target for 2010 was to plant 450 native broad leaf trees, which we have achieved. We now intend to keep going until we have planted one tree for every week that we have been in business.
Planting these trees will not only enable us to offset our carbon emissions (on average, one native British broad leaf will absorb in the region of 1 tonne of carbon dioxide during its full life-time), it will also provide homes and food for innumerable species of birds, mammals and insects and by planting trees now, we are ensuring the survival of species threatened by habitat loss, maintaining the ecosystems on which our lives depend and safeguarding our ecological heritage for future generations.
It is the policy of Step System to:
• Recycle
• Use ethically produced products and materials
• Offset CO2 emissions
• Provide wildlife habitats
• Plant native British trees
• Enhance the natural UK landscape