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Template Emails
Improve Your Waste Management
Please feel free to use this text in an email to your
landlord and edit content as appropriate
This template is produced by Go Green
www.gogreenbusiness.co.uk
Dear [insert landlord’s name here]
As part of the 2015 Bristol European Green Capital year, our organisation is striving to
be recognised as a sustainable business by taking part in the Go Green programme.
Through participation in Go Green we strongly believe that we have the opportunity
to make a positive difference to the local environment in which we live and work.
Go Green is asking businesses to take a lead in reducing our environmental impact as
a result of our waste production. Each year England generates 177 million tonnes of
waste (data from DEFRA). When this is sent to landfill it not only costs businesses like
us money but it is takes up valuable land space, pollutes the local soil and water and
contributes to climate change through methane production. Our business wants to be
part of the ‘zero waste economy’ where resources are fully valued, even at the end of
their useful life for us. Currently, as a tenant in your building we have limited control
over how our waste is stored or which suppliers provide waste collection. This impacts
our environmental footprint and subsequently the ability to be seen as a sustainable
business. As a result, we request your support and assistance to implement a waste
management scheme on site that prioritises waste reuse, composting and recycling
above sending waste to landfill. This will reduce our environmental impact and
resource use.
We request your assistance in providing facilities on site for us to store waste for reuse and recycling or composting where possible. We also request that you require
your waste collectors to clearly define their green credentials and encourage them to
maximise the amount of waste they send for reuse, recycling and composting. If this
is not possible we ask that you consider changing to a green waste collection company
that does, as there are plenty of local companies that offer this service, and often at
the same price as conventional service. For more information on waste management
please see the Wrap website http://www.wrap.org.uk/ and the Bristol Reuse project
http://www.bristolreuse.com/
We look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
[Insert your name here]
To find out more about Go Green and why we are involved please visit
www.gogreenbusiness.co.uk
This template is produced by Go Green
www.gogreenbusiness.co.uk