General Statement of Environmental Principals

Mustard Design & Print Ltd seeks to ensure that all of our activities comply fully with relevant environmental legislation and perceived best practice, and strives for continual improvement of our environmental management procedures.

Mustard Design & Print Ltd recognises that our activities have an impact on the environment. In all our activities, working practices and business relationships, we are committed to protecting, conserving and enhancing all aspects of the environment over which we have control or can influence.

Implementation

To deliver our Environmental Policy, Mustard Design & Print Ltd will:

• Ensure that all of our activities comply fully with relevant environmental legislation and perceived best practice;
• Set practical aims for the continual improvement of our environmental management procedures;
• Use resources wisely by reducing resource use and re-using or recycling materials wherever possible;
• Use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to carry out our work and communicate with clients and suppliers - thus avoiding the generation of excessive volumes of paper waste;
• Recycle as much waste material as possible and minimise consumption of resources such as ink, paper, raw materials, fuel and energy;
• Encourage the use of environmentally friendly materials when designing publications for clients;
• Encourage the use of chlorine-free recycled paper and vegetable-based (usually soya) inks for all of our printed materials;
• Maintain current and reliable information on the environmental impact of the goods and services we supply and make this available on demand to enable our customers to make informed choices;
• Understand the sensitivities of our customers, including the pressures of growing and changing statutory and public concern about environmental issues, and assist them in complying with environmental best practice;
• Identify opportunities to reduce any environmental impact of our activities at an early stage and
adopt these changes where appropriate;
• Communicate our environmental performance both within the company and outside;
• Raise staff awareness of environmental issues and promote individual good practice;
• Require our suppliers to provide goods and services with the minimum adverse environmental impact, and give preference to environmentally aware suppliers whenever possible;
• Ensure that our purchases of goods and materials comply fully with UK government and EU legislation and recognised environmental best practice;
• Make efficient and environmentally responsible use of energy, water and other natural resources;
• Take all reasonable steps to prevent pollution of both our local and wider environments;
• Employ sound waste management practices, including compliance with the requirements of the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations;
• Encourage all of our suppliers to have, or be developing, an environmental policy statement;
• Continue to review our environmental performance, and strive to respond to issues as they arise;
• Conduct internal environmental reviews on a periodic basis and to measure our operational activities against our environmental standards;
• Encourage our staff to minimise car journeys and use environmentally sustainable transport methods in respect of commuting and business journeys wherever practical;
• Where car journeys are essential, to use bio-fuels and vehicles with low carbon emissions and high fuel economy wherever possible;
• Support our local authority’s green travel objectives.

Ethical Trading Policy Statement

Mustard Design & Print Ltd will aim to trade ethically. To implement this policy, we will:

• Not take advantage of lower employment or manufacturing costs in developing countries;
• Actively consider paying suppliers from developing countries an additional bonuses upon satisfactory completion of a project;
• Adhere to any Government recognised trading sanctions;
• Not trade with those countries which our directors believe are violators of human rights.
• Refuse to work with any client or prospective client which we have reason to consider exploits humans, animals or the environment unfairly.

This statement will be available through the company’s website and hard copies are available on request.

For further information please contact: Mustard Design & Print Ltd on 01722 744063 or e-mail: paul@mustardonline.co.uk

Signed:

Paul W. L. SAMPLE
Managing Director
14th November 2005