"NEWS - " Its Silver for George Fisher!

31/05/2011

Back in 2008 we took our first steps towards giving a structure to our environmental efforts, working with Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency towards their Cumbria Business Environment Network (CBEN) awards. The CBEN process audits George Fisher against stringent criteria, and we were awarded Bronze back in 2008 for work including waste re-use and ethical sourcing of bags.

The next stage is tougher; as CBEN puts it, This is an award for organisations and companies who are prepared to make significant progress along the road of environmental management. Two of the biggest challenges were facing at the moment are reducing our energy use, and reducing the waste we send to landfill. So by looking hard at what we do, over the last year weve cut our energy consumption by over 13% and reduced the quantity of landfill waste by over two-thirds, or 77,000 litres.

These efforts have helped George Fisher gain CBEN Silver in 2010, which were particularly proud of. Plus weve managed to raise 4,661 for Nurture Lakeland, our local conservation charity, over the previous 12 months. No resting on laurels though were now working hard to achieve Gold!