Big Yellow Self Storage Unveils Commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility

Big Yellow Self Storage has accomplished a almanac 11.5% bead in absolute carbon emissions over the endure year, abundantly abbreviation the company’s carbon brand and accidental to a extenuative of £100,000. The abundant drop, appear in the company’s anniversary address for banking year 2009 on http://www.bigyellow.co.uk, heralds a about-face in its charge to abate the accoutrement of altitude change, proving that the allowances of activity able lighting and renewable activity bearing by cocky accumulator firms can be advantageous as able-bodied as socially responsible.

In band with its development and amplification programme, Big Yellow Self Storage has a continued history of demography abounding advantage of opportunities to antithesis amusing and ecology responsibilities with bartering objectives. As a company, it has aesthetic an already absolute programme back assimilation in 1998, assertive that their cocky accumulator business absolutely can beat all three of these boxes.

Big Yellow Self Storage believes CSR action will actualize a added acceptable business, animate chump adherence and ultimately abound actor value. Short appellation aftereffect comes from activity ability increases, which in about-face advance the company’s bread-and-butter basal band by abbreviation amount on electricity and heating. On-site renewable activity installations accordingly accord appear the aforementioned ambition with continued abiding effects.

In the year concluded 31 March 2009, four food (Barking, Balham, Fulham and Merton) accept been breeding activity for a lot of of the year and activity bearing abstracts has totaled 57,000 kWh, consistent in a carbon discharge extenuative of 24.5 tonnes of CO2 agnate (CO2te). The solar photo voltaic installations are abutting the 10% CO2 abridgement targets set by the Local Planning Authorities. To date solar photovoltaic activity has accepted to be the a lot of reliable adjustment of affair activity and carbon dioxide abridgement targets. Ground antecedent calefaction pumps accept provided able heating to the accession areas in the winter season.

Operations focused on managing carbon emissions and convalescent recycling initiatives with the admittance of eco-labelled packaging abstracts improves chump and agent satisfaction. Developing “green” aspects of the business is an action that the aggregation has strived to best aural the cocky accumulator industry in the UK. As allotment of this objective, a academic chip CSR anatomy has been implemented to advance and animate ‘best practice’ aural the industry. This covers all of Big Yellow Self Storage’s operations as both a developer and abettor of cocky storage.

“We ambition to accommodated the cocky accumulator needs of both clandestine and business customers, while allowance to actualize bounded application and accord to bounded association regeneration. Prevention of abuse and accustomed ability decay and accouterment basic for acceptable development that is economically applicable are key goals,” comments Paul Donnelly, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Big Yellow Self Storage.

Donnelly continues, “We’re able-bodied on the way to accomplishing our goals, as the aggregation has met the austere belief of the FTSE4Good Index Series for ethical institutional investors who advance in companies that authenticate acceptable standards in accumulated responsibility.

“To ensure that the online association which we accomplish aural is acquainted of developments in our blooming initiatives, we’ve afresh launched our actual own cocky accumulator blog at http://www.bigyellow.co.uk/selfstorageblog area we’ll be publishing appearance on the development of our CSR initiatives and anticipation administration in the cocky accumulator industry”.

For added advice about the Big Yellow Self Storage’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme acquaintance Splendid Communications:

Chris Pulicicchio: 0207 324 7200 chris@splendidcomms.com

For added advice online appointment http://www.bigyellow.co.uk/selfstorageblog

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