Environment

Today’s global economy is principally based on the exploitation of the world’s non-renewable natural resources as both sources of energy and raw materials for manufacture. The exploitation of these resources is in many cases gathering pace, from the deforestation of the world’s jungles & forests to the extraction of coal and oil from the Earth’s crust, all these actions exploit finite natural resources. Furthermore, the processing and use of these raw materials often has a detrimental effect upon both urban and natural habitats and the atmosphere.

At some point in the future we will all have to move to a sustainable global economy built on using renewable energy sources and better managed natural resources. With this in mind Dams are playing their part in the move towards a sustainable economy.

Environmental Awareness
Environmental concerns are a large part of every business activity today. Dams are fully committed to continuously reviewing procedures that impact on the environment and conduct our operations in compliance with legislation and to minimize the risk of all forms of pollution.

All of the particle board used by Dams is both FSC & PEFC compliant. FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) & PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) are non-profit organisations concerned with ensuring the responsible and sustainable management of forests.Both organisations have international recognition and work to ensure that the world’s forests are managed in a responsible manner.

For more information please visit either www.fsc.org or www.pefc.org

Reducing and recycling
Dams have recently invested heavily in new packaging technology and processes to reduce our dependence on cardboard packaging. The aim is to avoid the environmental expense of replacing damaged goods whilst minimising the environmental expense of waste packaging.

To avoid using landfill sites and incinerators our waste products like cardboard, paper, wood and plastic are separated for recycling. Dams factory use waste wood to power the heating system. This reduces the need to burn polluting fossil fuels. To reduce waste even further we have worked closely with our suppliers to reduce the amount of component and finished product packaging arriving at the company’s factories. This reduces waste and the overall weight of the packaged product which in turn helps to reduce fuels costs and the carbon footprint of finished products, during transit.

At the end of every desk’s working life Dams can recycle the product thanks to our policy of working with ecologically sound materials and suppliers.

Dams source all MFC board from an approved supplier that is one of the only UK manufacturers who utilises up to 96% recycled timber within the production process

It is estimated that each year up to 420,000 tonnes of waste wood is produced by households, or deposited at civic amenity sites in the UK. Packaging (pallets and crates) produce a further 670,000 tonnes, and construction and demolition 750,000 tonnes.

Source: www.wasteonline.org.uk

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