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Global sustainability accreditor, Eco Vadis, has awarded Anabas with a gold medal, placing the corporate office FM specialist in the 91st percentile globally for its sustainability ratings.
EcoVadis is an online measuring tool for a company’s sustainability performance. It allows companies to assess the ESG performance of their global suppliers, and considers a range of sustainability issues, which are grouped into four themes: ‘Environment’, ‘Labour & Human Rights’, ‘Ethics’, and ‘Sustainable Procurement’.
The platform is used by more than 90,000 companies across 200 industries in more than 160 countries. This recognition is the result of a UK-wide effort by the FM provider to achieve exceptional levels of corporate responsibility and sustainability across its national operations.
Anabas has been leading efforts to address environmental and social issues in its FM delivery by engaging its Sustainable Green Team to find innovative operations solutions. This has included various environmental activities through effective waste management and recycling initiatives, and the implementation of IoT tech that provide energy-saving initiatives and real-time insight to key sustainability metrics like energy use, temperatures and air quality.
The company says it is committed to fulfilling corporate social responsibility within its supply chain to ensure procurement of materials and specialist services through socially responsible supply chains.
Alistair Craig, MD at Anabas said: “It is a great honour to be recognised by EcoVadis and receive a gold award for the work we do at Anabas. We have been working extremely hard over the last year to improve our sustainability offering within our business to better support our clients and the planet. This gold medal is fantastic recognition of the hard work that has gone on behind the scenes by the Anabas team.
“It is important for all businesses to recognise the impact they have on the environment and take responsibility for it. By working with EcoVadis, we have been able to accurately track our own impact and find new ways to reduce effects.”
FMJ in conjunction with Grundon Waste Management is pleased to launch the 2023 waste management and recycling survey which examines the ways in which FMs approach their waste management responsibilities.
In this, the sixth year for the annual appraisal, we know there is a greater opportunity than ever for FMs to reappraise their waste and recycling operations and help their organisations meet the growing pressure to achieve ESG goals.
We want to learn how FMs have adapted to the legislative, economic and societal changes of the past year and how they plan to meet the latest waste and recycling targets.
In this survey we’ve posed a series of questions which include insights into FMs’ waste management strategy and targets, how they’re moving towards zero waste targets, and the importance of not just meeting compliance targets but also ESG goals.
The results of the 2023 survey will be published in FMJ magazine and form the basis of a white paper co-written by FMJ and the experts at Grundon on how to approach waste and recycling strategies.
To take part click here.
