Optima is passionate about reducing the impact our activities have on the environment as well as working to help the community. We have therefore implemented the following objectives and initiatives.
Simple three point initiative implemented at all our manufacturing facilities:
- Reduce the production of waste materials, encouraging energy efficiency
- Re-use and increase the use of products containing recycled materials
In addition, Optima continues to work with charities and other community projects so that they too can benefit from Optima's success.
Environmental Sustainability
Many of our current products are demountable and can be relocated and re-used within a building.
All of our products can, upon reaching the end of their useful life, be dismantled allowing the aluminium, glass, steel, plastic, timber and insulation materials to be recovered from site and entered in to the relevant recycling programme.
Optima is extending the simple three point initiative to site installations of our products by providing training, available to all Contracting Partners, in order to minimise partitioning waste during installation and actively encourage site waste management plans to be adopted; utilizing specialist waste management companies to collect and recycle waste partitioning materials.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Optima supports various local charities including SeeAbility, a UK-based charity for the blind. Recently a team of Optima professionals cycled from Leatherhead to Le Mans as part of a challenging four-day bike ride in aid of SeeAbility. The ten-strong team raised over £16,000 for the charity. For more information on SeeAbility, visit www.seeability.org.
Footprint and environmental ISO's
Optima is working to reduce its CO2 emissions by 10% over the next five years. Through actively managing transport requirements in an environmentally considerate manner, Optima is on target to reduce current carbon equivalent emissions by 25% over the next five years.
Following assessments by independent bodies, Optima has been awarded ISO 14001 certification. Only 1% of UK businesses have been successful in achieving this prestigious award which is supported by the Government and recognized world wide.