South Lakes Housing has won a Bronze Award from Cumbria Business Energy Network, following an auditing and inspection process.  The award is for recognising our responsibility to manage the impact of our activities and services on the environment. The impacts include use of electricity, water, paper, office consumables and travelling costs. A policy to promote good environmental pratices such as re-using, recovering or recycling materials where practicable is in the process of being developed.

 

In our effort to be awarded silver, we have introduced measures which will hopefully reduce our impact on the environment.

 

They include displaying posters about energy usage, placing stickers on switches to encourage staff to 'switch off' if not needed and the replacement of some spot lights with strip lights.

 

We have taken advantage of United Utilities 'save-a-flush' device.  The introduction of a water heater, which uses less electricity than a kettle.  A shredder has been purchased to dispose of confidential waste, which also can benefit the staff in terms of reducing identity theft, they can use it for personal papers.