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Carlton’s environmental impacts arise from its studios, offices
and transport. The main issues are our contribution to global
warming, use of resources and generation of waste.
The Group environment committee coordinates
environmental improvement initiatives and has been
instrumental in setting Carlton’s first company-wide reduction
targets for energy use and recycling. The group targets are to
reduce energy use by 6 per cent over three years and to
increase paper recycling by 5 per cent in one year.
A combination of proactive management, consolidation of
offices and a reduction in staff numbers have all contributed
to reduced environmental impacts this year.
Global warming: The total amount of carbon dioxide
emitted from energy and transport fell by 10 per cent in
2001/2002. This reduction is mainly due to consolidation of
office facilities and a decrease in staff numbers. Reported
transport fuel use has also decreased due to improved
expense claims procedures.
Carlton Studios did not achieve its target to reduce
energy use (reported last year) due to an increase in
programme production activity at the Nottingham site.
Recycling: All except for one of our offices have recycling
schemes for paper and toner cartridges. The amount of paper
recycled decreased by 13 per cent in 2001/2002 for the reasons
stated above. Most of our toner cartridges are recycled. The
number recycled decreased this year due to the replacement
of small printers with Xerox copier machines at Carlton
Television (the Xerox cartridges are much larger than toner
cartridges requiring less frequent replacement). Our service
contract ensures that all Xerox cartridges are recycled.
In 2001/2002 Carlton Television purchased approximately
120 tonnes of white paper and recycled approximately 48
tonnes (40 per cent) which includes other sources of waste
paper such as newspapers and card. We believe that there
is scope for increasing the proportion of paper recycled
and have established a target for 2002/2003 (above).
Water use: The amount of water used fell by 2 per cent
in 2001/2002. Most of our buildings have water meters and
we estimate that the data covers over 70 per cent of the
business.
Ozone depletion: We have cooling systems at many
of our locations to prevent television equipment from
overheating and for air conditioning in the summer. Our
sealed systems hold 2.3 tonnes of HCFCs – an ozone depleting
gas. There were no releases of HCFCs reported in 2001/2002.
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