As a software vendor and manufacturer, the majority of our products and manufacturing processes do not include physical items or processes. As a result, Clearswift has a very low environmental footprint.
To the extent that our products include physical items, such as servers, we purchase from reputable manufacturers such as Dell who employ industry standard environmental policies and are fully WEEE and RoHS compliant.
To supplement our inherently low environmental impact,Clearswift implements a number of environmentally sensitive policies including recycling of waste paper, used CDs and use of recycled materials and paper. We also actively separate and recycle waste products in our offices and provide multiple recycling facilities to staff in each area of our offices.
Clearswift actively works with landlords in each location worldwide to reduce consumption. We carry out all development in the UK and have reduced our number of servers by 15% and power consumption by nearly 20%in the last 2 years. We are targeting a further 10% reduction over 2 years by virtualisation, moving services into the Cloud and reducing number of devices whilst also switching older units for newer, more efficient ones.
Our policy follows the principles of ISO 14001, namely:
an environmental policy supported by top management
environmental goals, objectives, and targets that support the policy
defined roles and responsibilities
an environmental management process
a process for communicating the environmental management process to all interested parties via the website or for enquirers
a process for auditing progress and taking corrective action