ISO 14064-1 specifies principles and requirements at the organisation level for quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals. It includes requirements for the design, development, management, reporting and verification of an organization's GHG inventory.

It's an extremely difficult accreditation to achieve and after many months of hard work from our environmental committee and the wider management team, we implemented a number of processes to help us reduce our carbon footprint.  Well what's harder than gaining ISO 14064-1 accreditation?  Retaining it!  That's right, in order to retain the accreditation we not only need to continue this journey, we need to make continual improvement to our GHG emissions and our overall Carbon Footprint.  As much as this sounds simple, the better you get the harder it is to improve.  We have managed to achieve even more reduction in our impact on the environment and therefore have been awarded the ISO 14064-1 accreditation for another 12 months.

We've already starting implementing new ideas to help us achieve the same big tick when we're audited again next year.  Some of the things we've been doing this year include;

• Monitoring staff travel and planning where possible to reduce km's travelled
• Reducing airfreight mileage by increasing our stock levels by up to $5million
• Working with customers to ensure freight can be sent in bulk as much as possible reducing urgent freight mileage
• Removing all bubble wrap from our packages, we've replaced it with a recyclable paper alternative (you may have seen it)
• Increasing our Solar farm from 70kW to 150kW - we've produced nearly 70% of all the energy we've used since April 2017 when the original solar farm was commissioned.