Environment

ISO

We’re fully certified to ISO 14001:2004 and ISO 9001:2000 standards which aim to improve environmental and quality performance within an organisation.

Redeem’s environmental management system (EMS) details the processes and procedures we’ve put in place to set and achieve relevant environmental targets allowing us to continually improve our performance each year.

Quality is essential in our business and our ISO 9001:2000 certified quality management system (QMS) reflects our commitment to delivering the highest standards across everything we do.

Sustainable Transport Policy

As an environmentally responsible company we aim to minimise the emissions our business generates. Staff are encouraged to use sustainable means of transport to travel to work including public transport, cycling and walking. We also operate a car sharing scheme while regular staff surveys monitor our performance.

Facts

It’s estimated that 90 million phones are hiding in drawers and cupboards across the UK weighing in at almost six times as much as the London Eye while the estimated 500 million redundant cell phones in the US are the equivalent in weight to a US Navy Aircraft Carrier!
90ml of oil is used to produce each inkjet cartridge and roughly 3.5 litres for each laser cartridge. That means around half a gallon of oil, a non-renewable fossil fuel, is conserved for every laser cartridge returned.
Currently there are 1.25 billion mobile/cell phone users in the world replacing their handsets on average every 18 months, yet fewer than 5% of these are recycled.
Printer ink costs more than vintage champagne! Manufacturers charge consumers around £1.70 per millilitre of printer ink compared to 23p per millilitre for 1985 Dom Perignon.
Handsets contain cadmium, lead, beryllium and other dangerous toxic substances which can cause serious pollution if not disposed of correctly. They also contain valuable precious metals such as gold and silver which can be extracted for reuse.
In the last decade over 250 million cartridges have ended up in landfill sites or been incinerated, each of these take approximately 1000 years to biodegrade