Facilities & Sustainability Case Study: E.ON UK
E.ON is the UK's largest integrated energy suppliers, generating and distributing electricity, and retailing electricity and gas. E.ON UK is part of E.ON, the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company, headquartered in Germany...

Carillion plc
Carillion state that they provide “sustainable solutions for the way we live” and that they will achieve this by......

FRANK water – drink me, save lives
Can bottled water be sustainable? FRANK water is a new type of bottled water company – a social enterprise that benefits disadvantaged groups directly....

Green-Works – a social enterprise with the mission to “radically change the way society thinks about waste”.
Set up in 2000 by Colin Crooks (Chief Executive), Green-Works is a registered charity which has revolutionised office waste streams. ...

Skanska Green Car policy - leading by example
Find out how and why this is being implemented...

PlusGreen - Greener than Green paper solutions
PlusGreen offer renewable, biodegradable and socially responsible paper solutions for office use, food sector (packaging) and medical disposable consumables. Through partnership with The Consortium t...

Camden Council Agency Staff
London Borough of Camden changed their method of procuring temporary staff to Vendor Managed Service. ...

Denmark
Denmark, one of the leading countries in green public procurement, has committed all government institutions to include environmental aspects into the purchasing process. ...

Kent County Council
Kent County Council Strategic Planning Directorate is aiming to build capacity for sustainable and local procurement through business analysis, supply chain development and development of procur...

Kingsmead School
The project is aligned closely with the DfES "Schools for the Future Vision" and has received additional funding via a DfES Teaching Environments for the Future Grant....

Kirklees Metropolitan Council
Integrating sustainable criteria into purchasing decisions in local authorities can be very challenging due to the diversity of purchases and the large number of staff involved in procurement. ...

Merseyside Collaborative Procurement Initiative
Discover how the five metropolitan boroughs comprising Merseyside County have helped boost the local economy and achieved cost savings of £6.5million over 4 years through collaborative procurement....

NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA)
NHS PASA is a leader in the governmental sector for best practice in procurement. They hold ISO14001 accreditation which covers procurement activities, with annual objectives and targets covering sust...

NHS Trusts Cornwall
Procurement officers from NHS Trusts in Cornwall structure contracts that legally enable local and SME suppliers to win business. ...

Northumberland County Council
Northumberland County Council decided to measure and improve its local economic impact, and used its supply contracts, and initially its food supply contracts, as an opportunity to focus efforts...

Sustainable Food and Timber in the UK
The UK government has taken a lead on sustainable food and timber procurement in the public sector. A cross governmental initiative is using the government’s annual £1.8 billion purchasing po...

Value Wales
Value Wales uses a cross cutting sustainable procurement programme across 108 organisations to achieve better value for money. ...

Islington Council’s Local Procurement Initiative – Business opportunities for local suppliers
Research by the New Economics Foundation has shown that where local subcontractors are appointed, they ...

Allied Domecq – Ethical Trading programme
In 2004 Allied Domecq plc began a programme to embed their Ethical Trading Policy into the Supply Chain. The Ethical Trading Policy was based on the following international standards: ...

B & Q
B&Q work with suppliers to establish critical environmental issues associated with each product’s life-cycle. They define standards for the environmental performance for product suppliers and as...

Greenhouse Graphics proves that SMEs can tackle environmental issues whilst increasing their competitiveness in the market
The Basingstoke-based business is a leading environmental printer and has received numerous awards to underline this. The director’s personal determination to provide clients with the most sustainabl...

One Planet Products: Not-for-profit member-owned buyers club
One Planet Products (OPP) is a bulk buying initiative focused on sustainable and environmental products and materials. ...

Re-Thinking at Willmott Dixon Construction
Willmott Dixon Construction have developed Re-Thinking as an added value service with White Design that brings together best in class thinking, design expertise and facilitation specialists....

Sainsbury's
Sainsburys state that they recognise that virtually all the activities of an organisation or an individual have some impact on the environment and that their “aim is to reduce the impact of our own or...

Ealing Community Transport (ECT) Group Waste Minimisation
ECT Group is a social enterprise delivering community transport and has developed to deliver a range of waste minimising services serving London Borough of Ealing over a 25 year period and other...

Highways Agency and Skanska
Early contractor involvement (ECI) has resulted in the development of a best whole life cost solution on bridge projects, where the perceived route to the lowest cost was proved not always to be...

Newport PFI
The Newport southern distributor road improvement to dual carriageway and maintenance was funded under a 40 year PFI contract. ...

North Bristol Health Trust – Patient Transport Services (PTS)
Proactive Logistics were invited to find a sustainable solution to PTS in April 2005. They recognised several missed opportunities, such as the lack of co-ordination or control of transport orde...

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