Sound Environment Impact
The Award...
The Union have successfully sent in their submission to the Sound Environmental Impact Award run by NUS Services Ltd . Last year the Union gained a Silver in the Sound Impact Awards and we are hoping to equal or improve on our score this year.
The Sound Impact Award was set up back in 2006 to encourage Unions to improve their best environmental practise and learn from what other Unions do well. The idea is to allow Unions to gain credit for what they are doing to be Environmentally and Ethically sound through the awards scheme and to give them an incentive to improve. The award has a number of essential criteria that Unions must meet in order to gain either Bronze or Silver awards and then a number of bonus criteria to gain extra points.
Unions must comply with all the Bronze criteria to gain the Bronze award and additionally the Silver criteria and also get 430 points overall to get Silver. The top five scoring Unions also get the Gold standard and the top scoring Union is the overall winner.
Environmental Performance...
more on the award...
The award covers a whole range of areas from waste, energy use, food, transport, water, campaign work, awareness raising, community relations and much more.
Examples of criteria are:
- Is the Union monitoring the number of business miles travelled on official Union business by various modes?
- Are environmental considerations referenced in job descriptions for new staff or standard terms and conditions?
- Does the Union have a metal can recycling scheme?
For further information about Sound Impact or to view the workbook for this year’s award with a full list of criteria and evidence needed follow the link below to the website:
http://www.nus.org.uk/About-NUS/Ethical--Environmental/Sound---an-ethical-and-environmental-brand/