Recycling Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility

'OUR FURNITURE DOESN’T COST THE EARTH'

ORS UK have been at the forefront of recycling office furniture in the Country for the last 5 years. The success of our business has not only been driven by our service, customer care and professionalism but by our continued commitment to the reuse and resale of surplus office furniture.

90% of all furniture that ORS UK acquires through the recycling program ends up being resold directly to local and national businesses through our sales department. The remaining 10% is broken down either for spares or recycling.

In 2004 over 2,000 tonnes of office furniture was removed and distributed by ORS UK in accordance with our recycling policy.

It is envisaged that in 2005 this figure will rise by 1,000 tonnes.

ORS UK work very closely with local and national based charities; our aim is to provide a service for charities that is unparalleled. ORS UK supply quality pre owned furniture at a fraction of the cost when compared to new, so that their resources can be spent on the frontline and not the back office. 

• Wood: all the wood is stored in an area and then removed by a dedicated wood recycling company who return the matter back to the furniture industry. We are pleased to confirm that no wood is land filled and all wooden components (desk tops and fittings etc) are all recycled in this way.

• Metal: all metal is treated in the same way, through a local metal merchant Simms who again recycles all the metal we introduce.

• Plastic: accounts for less than 1% of the waste material and due to the make up of this material we have no other means of disposing this except for treating this as waste. Most of the plastic components are kept for spares so this is kept to a minimum.

• Cardboard and Packaging: most of the time this is reused and by ORS UK in packing and storing materials in the warehouse or on the vehicles in transport. Any surplus cardboard is stored and again, this is recycled through Wasteline or Wilshees.

ORS UK adhere to all Environment Agency regulations and we have a Waste Carriers Licence. All waste is carried and controlled by all European and Local Legislation.

Environmental policy

ORS UK provides new and used office furniture, disposal of surplus office furniture, removal service, interior refurbishment and services to owners and occupiers. We operate under all forms of contract, on projects throughout the UK.

This policy states our intention to take all reasonable measures to donduct our business activities so that damage to the enviornment and pollutin is minimised.

To implement this policy and achieve our environmental  objectives we have developed processes and procedures that are implemented every day in our business practice and must be considered by all of our staff.

This will ensure that; 

           ORS UK will regularly review this policy to ensure that it is appropriate to the nature of our:  

              activities and meets environmental impacts

• We will comply with the requirements of all relevant environmental legislation and regulation that relate to our activities
• We will endeavour to follow and lead industry best practices and comply with our customers environmental requirements.
• We will seek continual environmental improvements across all of our activities and procedurees to minimise pollution
• We will set environmental objectives and targets within our Annual Business Plan, which will be monitored and reviewd to determine their effectiveness
• This is to be achieved by the specification of recycled products and sustainable resourses wherever possible together with responsible management of waste disposal
• Our Environmental Policy and procedures will form part of the Employees handbook and will be made available to all staff, and communicated in regular reviews with staff
• A copy of the environmental policy will be made available upon request to any interested party.