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Sustainability has become a major factor for businesses over the
past few years. Businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the
carbon footprint they are leaving.

As Conal mentioned in the Manager’s to set up a healthy workplace that
meeting at the end of 2018, we have makes a valid contribution to the
started looking at how sustainable environment and meets the needs
our business practices are, and our of future generations to make their
contribution to the environment as workplace better.
a whole. We have been looking at
a number of new initiatives for the What is a sustainable business?
year ahead. You may have questions A sustainable business is one
around what sustainability is, and how that makes profit while improving
you can help contribute to LEO’s work environmental and general conditions.
on being more sustainable. This includes what we do (our product
or service) as well as how we do it (the
What is sustainability? way we operate).
Sustainability is all about maintaining
a balance between business
practices and the effect that these Top 5 key areas
practices have on the environment. addressed by
For example, looking at the amount businesses
of electricity that is used on a day to
day basis, being aware of the amount Energy
of paper that is used during printing, Waste
or working with suppliers who are Workplace
environmentally aware. Transport
Purchasing
The whole point of sustainability is

February 2019