We are continuously looking for new ways to reduce the environmental impact that we all have, and a big part of this is to reduce the levels of CO2 that are produced by running our support services across the country.

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Here are a few ways that we currently adopt to reduce our CO2 levels are:
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• Using as environmentally friendly office spaces as possible for teams requiring office space.
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• Reducing our levels of driving by utilising public transport, and offering incentives that promote greener travel methods - Cycle to Work scheme for example.
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• If driving can't be avoided, then promoting car sharing as much as possible.
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• Promoting reducing single use plastic within our offices, and all office space having recycling bins an clear signage.
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• Planting trees for all new starters at Thrive Tribe, and continuing to increase the level we plant new trees over the coming years.

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A new way that we have found that an significantly reduce our operating levels of CO2 production is around our use of technology, and the associated supply chains of this.

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We already have a partnership with GreenSafeIT that allows all of our broken or redundant technology to be recycled. The new initiative is to use refurbished technology for IT replacements as this has a significant reduction in CO2 production levels. For example; purchasing a new laptop it is suggested this will create a huge 290kg of CO2 per laptop. A refurbished laptop, however, only creates 15kg of CO2. Therefore this is a huge saving of 275kg of CO2 per laptop! This is equivalent to planting an additional 11 trees per laptop!!!!

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With these levels of reduction in CO2, we are keen to implement this as soon as possible, and reduce our levels of CO2 production as quickly as possible.

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