ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Devon Communities Together is committed to complying with all relevant environmental legal requirements in order to protect the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the community. We will implement and maintain appropriate environmental management systems to ensure that our operations are conducted in an environmentally responsible manner. We will also take all necessary steps to prevent and mitigate any negative impacts, including prevention of pollution, and ensure continuous review, Improvement and update of our environmental policy and procedures to ensure they are in line with current legal requirements and industry best practices.

Our Key Social Objectives are to ensure communities:

  • have increased capability, skills and confidence in addressing local issues
  • become more resourceful and resilient
  • are economically stronger
  • are healthier, more vibrant and inclusive, with improved wellbeing
  • are supported to develop strategies to protect and regenerate their natural environment
     

These are our benchmark for success and enable us to measure the impact of our work through our
values of:

  • Collaboration and inclusion
  • Integrity
  • Professionalism
  • Good communication
  • Initiative and resourcefulness
     

Specific Policy Areas:

  1. Sustainability Projects with Community – The Community Council of Devon will actively
    support and champion on environmental projects.
  2. DCT sustainability wider influence - The Community Council of Devon will actively support
    local communities to become more sustainable through their infrastructure and celebrate
    good practice where it exists.
  3. DCT Travel - The Community Council of Devon recognises that the nature of our work with
    rural communities in a large county with a poor public transport infrastructure inevitably
    requires a certain level of car use. However, we will seek to minimise the dual impact of fuel
    consumption and exhaust emissions by adopting measures to promote responsible transport
    use by staff and volunteers. 
  4. DCT office - The Community Council of Devon will actively seek to minimise use of energy and
    waste across our operations. We will achieve this by training and raising awareness amongst staff
    of energy efficiency, through use of energy efficient products, technologies and recycling.