Environmental & Ethical

It is the Overall Policy of Bookpoint Ltd to operate the business in the best environmental practices possible.  The points stated below will give guidance on the achievement of this overall policy.

• Bookpoint will maintain its current good environmental practices to control and make best use of the resources used.
• Bookpoint will meet all relevant environmental legislation and regulation appropriate to the business.  Bookpoint will also make every effort to be in the forefront of environmental thinking prior to it becoming legislation.
• Bookpoint will ensure control of any waste discharge, which may have an adverse affect on the environment.  We are committed to prevention of pollution of the environment.
• Bookpoint will review the environmental impact of its activities and act on any areas that have significant adverse affect on the environment.  Further reviews will be carried out periodically to confirm that there have been no additional activities with any significant impact on the environment.
• Top Management will review the environmental aspects of the business periodically to review the progress of the environmental objects and targets and, where considered beneficial, the setting of the new objectives and targets.  The principal aim is for a programme of continual improvement in Bookpoint's environmental performance.
• Environmental processes as required by the ISO standard and to achieve the policies and objectives will be documented, implemented and maintained.
• Employees will be made aware of the impact of their actions on the environment and Bookpoint's environmental policies and objectives.
• Employees with specific responsibilities for processes with an environmental impact will be trained in the Company's requirements.

This year (from January to end of September 2009) with the environmental systems in place, Bookpoint has recycled 95.23% of the waste produced with only 4.77% going to landfill.