Reduce - Reuse - Recycle

Over the past few months, we have increased our focus on the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle. RDM has been founded on the idea of efficiency and reducing the impact on the environment by developing solutions that increase a building’s efficiency and in turn reduce emissions. Concerned with how humanity is leaving the planet for the next generation, we have continuously developed our solutions to improve emissions’ savings. We are now looking at new ways to reach net zero by reducing our emissions, reusing old equipment, and recycling where possible. 

Reduce

We have already reduced our scope 2 emissions to zero by switching to renewable electricity. Over the next year, we are looking to reduce our scope 3 emissions by 5-10%. We’ll be focusing on three areas  pecifically to achieve this:

• Business travel: reducing emissions from this activity by holding virtual meetings where possible. Our entire electric business car fleet ensures that customer visits can be carried out without emissions.
• Purchased goods & services: we’ll increase our work with suppliers who have a strong focus on reducing their carbon footprint
• Waste management: a newly introduced recycling scheme will reduce the waste sent to landfills

Reuse

As part of our efforts to reuse old material, we have donated old equipment to the community or staff. Unused plastic pallets have been donated to a Glasgow-based school art project. Old flower planters have found a new home in a staff member’s garden and out-of-date PC screens were given away to those who needed them. 

Recycle 

We recently introduced a new recycling scheme in the office following a poll if staff would support this and it received a firm yes from 100% of staff. Under the new scheme, paper, plastic, and food waste are separated from regular waste in easily accessible bins.