Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative
(PSFPI)
Environmental Performance
Tackling climate change and improving our environment is vital for our future.
Rt. Hon Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to the Local Government Association - 5 July 2007.
Energy
Water
- Bottled water across the government estate
Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell, wrote on 6 March 2008 to the head of every government department suggesting they should replace bought-in bottled water with tap water for meetings and other official business
- Waterwise
Water saving devices and the most efficient
- Water Technology List
Provides information on water efficient technologies that attract enhanced capital allowances
Waste
- Water technology lists
Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme for sustainable water technologies - based on the ECA scheme for energy saving investments
- Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
Creating efficient markets for recycled materials and products. Supporting companies wishing to collect, reprocess or use a range of recyclates.
- Separating the sushi from the salami
New regulations governing the way food and drink retailers dispose of their waste means a great opportunity for rethinking your waste streams.
Vehicles
- Energy Saving Trust - transport advice programme
practical solutions to help reduce costs and improve the environmental performance of car and van fleets. For fleets over 50 vehicles a free comprehensive review of transport operations is available through their panel of independent fleet consultants. Smaller fleets can benefit from their wide range of publications and telephone advice
- Vehicle Certification Agency’s New Car Fuel Consumption and CO 2 database
Enables
buyers to identify cars that offer lower fuel consumption (or use alternative
fuel types) and the excise duty payable and/or the relevant Company
Car tax percentage bracket, based on CO 2 levels.
Quick Wins
- Quick Wins products list
Quick Wins' is a list covering a range of commonly-purchased goods, including white goods. The standards relate to characteristics such as energy consumption, recycled content, and biodegradability. If public sector procurers buy to these specifications, it is a ‘Quick Win’ in helping them conserve energy and water and minimise waste and, in so doing, help achieve value for money by reducing whole life costs.
General
- DCSF guide: Schools for the Future: Inspirational Design for Kitchen & Dining Spaces
This design guide produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ provides invaluable guidance on the design of school kitchens and eating facilities and is illustrated with useful case studies. Section 2 covers sustainability issues.
- A Bursar's guide to sustainable school operation
Outlines measures that can be taken to reduce a school's environmental impact and make real cash savings while enhancing the teaching and learning element of sustainable working practices
- Sustainable
Workplace
If you are wondering how you can make your workplace
more sustainable this website is a good place to start.
- Procuring sustainable products
Guidance on how the Government operates
a sustainable procurement policy, can also be used as a useful guide
for business.
- Sustainable Schools Support
TeacherNet site providing guidance and downloadable tools to help schools identify the best route to becoming more sustainable, including a leaflet with ten top tips for reducing energy and water costs
Useful Links
- National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP)
Bringing businesses together through cross-sector working to use the waste product from one industry as the input for another and creating new business opportunities.
- Market Transformation Programme (MTP)
Developing policy strategies for improving resource efficiency of traded goods and services and keeping business up to date with product policy.
- DBERR Technology Programme
Research and development into waste minimisation and energy efficiency.
- Food Industry Sustainability Strategy
The strategy is aimed principally at the Food Industry, but may be of interest to anyone wishing to find out more about sustainability, reduction in energy consumption, food transport, the use of water, the management of waste, corporate social responsibility, ethical trading or better regulation.
- Sustainable Workplace
Web site of the Trade Union Sustainable Development Advisory Committee (TUSDAC) promoting improvements in environmental performance that benefit workers, employers and the wider community, including links to useful organisations.
Further information
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Page last modified:
6 August 2008
Page published: 2 November 2004
