Environment Mission Statement
Ritchies seek to enhance the environment by adopting environmentally sustainable business practices to comply with regulatory and industry requirements, whilst maintaining and enhancing business profitability.
Our Direction and Goal
We want to minimise our environmental footprint, and desire the most appropriate sustainable environmental outcomes for our business.
We seek to embrace our Mission Statement, and deliver quality business and environmental outcomes, simply and effectively. We have implemented an Environment Implementation Strategy to help us address our company and environmental objectives as we grow, and in turn deliver a safer, compliant, sustainable, profitable, better, and enjoyable workplace for the present and future.
"We
don't inherit the earth from our parents,
we are borrowing it from our children."
(Kenyan Proverb)
By diverting waste from an average Australian landfill* through materials, organics and energy recovery, Ritchies
Stores VIC has avoided the release of 163.14 tonnes of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
This is equivalent to:
40.79 cars removed from the road for one year.
not sending 191.93 employees on a flight from Sydney to Hong Kong.
planting 608.74 trees.
*landfill with a 26% methane recovery rate (National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Australian DCC).
Calculations of CO2e avoided are presented for information only. The calculated amount of carbon avoided is not accredited or tradeable as carbon offsets or emissions reeduction units or equivalent under any Australian or Internationally recognized voluntary or mandatory greenhouse gas abatement scheme.
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