Environmental Awareness

We are proud to supply veterinary staff whilst minimising our impact on the environment.

Carlton Professional Recruitment took the plunge and achieved carbon neutrality in April 2006. We are very proud that the supply of veterinary staff to our clients is now done in a carbon neutral way. We have made practical steps to ensure that the everyday functionality of our company minimises any further negative carbon impact.

How do we achieve this? We have approached this project in a simple, but all encompassing way. The ethos behind it is to reduce our overall carbon emissions from fuel, flights, gas, electricity and waste and then to offset our inevitable carbon production.

Our Carbon Reduction has been achieved by some of the following examples:

• Electricity:
  • We have changed our electricity supplier to one that supplies from renewable sources.
  • All light bulbs have been changed to energy saving bulbs – this alone reduces our electricity use for lighting to a quarter of the previous amount!
  • We turn off all lights when not in a room. (We now have “TURN THAT OFF” sticker everywhere – simple but effective!)
  • We turn off all computer and electrical equipment at the wall overnight, where possible to avoid items left on ‘standby’
  • Tea time! Only boil enough water that we need.
• Heating:
  • We have improved our building insulation
  • We have installed a digital/programmable heating thermostat and located it centrally in the building.
  • We have consciously turn our thermostat down from 23C to 21C
  • Heating the building strategically for when it’s needed and turning it down low on weekends.
• Fuel:
  • Make trips only as necessary – this has been especially important with members of our team based overseas
• Waste reduction and production:
  • All office supplies are from renewable sources i.e. all business stationary uses recycled paper
  • All waste paper, cardboard, magazines and catalogues are collected and recycled.
• Carbon Offset

  It is evident that we will inevitably use some fossil fuel to supply the energy needs of the company. This we have offset so that our overall carbon production is countered by projects to reduce or remove an equivalent amount of carbon from the atmosphere.

  Offsetting takes two forms:

  • Planting trees to absorb and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and supply oxygen.
  • Funding projects to reduce carbon production and fossil fuel reliance.

  Carlton Professional Recruitment Ltd has offset its carbon use through both of the above means, using an independent company CO2BALANCE. They can be contacted at co2balance.com.