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SCA Recycling committed to safety, environment and quality
SCA Recycling is able to show a clear commitment to its sustainability credentials. A few simple facts have been brought together to demonstrate that the welfare and safety of employees, care for the environment and quality are uppermost in SCA Recycling’s standards.
Health and safety training is completed by all staff, whether based in an office, industrial or driving post. Vehicle drivers have been part of a quality scheme since 2000 rewarding high standards of safe, economical driving. This scheme is an important competitive element in driving up standards of safety, and it benefits insurance costs too.
In terms of vehicles and equipment, SCA Recycling operates a fleet of vehicles with an average age of less than three years. Today, two thirds of the vehicle fleet exceed the pollution requirements, not due to be mandatory until 2010, in addition their emissions are lower than standards for the London low emission zone (LEZ) for 2012.
Ken Stevens, Managing Director, explained why sustainability is important to SCA Recycling, “We will keep investing in people and equipment. This benefits our people who stay with us; our longest serving employee has been with us for 42 years. Our investment in vehicles reduces our impact on the environment, we are proud of that.
In our partnership based approach we aim to demonstrate these facts to all of those who work for and with SCA Recycling ”.
Further press information is available from Barry Walton or John Dresser. Tel: 020 8789 2587.
SCA Recycling is a member of the Swedish Group, SCA, a global consumer goods and paper company with an annual turnover of €11billion, that develops, produces and markets personal care products, tissue, packaging solutions and solid wood products.
SCA Recycling is a European based organisation. Its main task is to provide the raw material for SCA's recovered fibre based Tissue, Graphic and Containerboard paper mills. SCA Recycling also serves other, non -SCA, recovered fibre consuming paper mills worldwide.
WRAP is the Waste and Resources Action Programme.