Formidable programme sees Enterprise Stream beat powerful targets

AN ENVIRONMENTALLY-focused water retailer has achieved a inexperienced milestone – chopping its carbon emissions by half in only one yr.

Scottish-headquartered Enterprise Stream achieved the 50% discount by rolling out a collection of carefully-planned measures to ship environmental financial savings and persevering with to retain most of the optimistic behaviours that had been adopted throughout lockdown.

The consequence, measured from April 2022 to April 2023, exceeded the retailer’s promise to chop emissions by 20% in the course of the 12-month interval.

Jo Dow, Chief Govt of Enterprise Stream, stated: “Along with supporting our clients to attain their sustainability targets, we even have a duty to cut back our personal environmental impression.

“Over the previous two years we’ve taken proactive steps to considerably decrease our carbon emissions – contributing to our aim of attaining internet zero by 2030.

“We’re delighted with the progress we’ve made however we additionally recognise that there’s extra to do with a purpose to proceed to ship environmental financial savings. Work is now underway to establish the extra steps we have to take to cut back our footprint additional”.

Enterprise Stream is the biggest operator in Scotland’s non-domestic water market and its 350-strong workforce have performed an important position in serving to ship its environmental targets.

Colleagues have embraced Enterprise Stream’s Local weather Aware Journey Coverage, which was launched in the course of the previous yr, alongside an electrical automobile wage sacrifice scheme, encouraging colleagues to make accountable journey decisions.

The water retailer has additionally applied numerous different measures to cut back emissions, together with changing its diesel fleet with electrical autos and investing in new, extra power environment friendly air con models.

Initially created in 2006 to supply finest in school water companies to companies in Scotland, Enterprise Stream later acquired the non-household buyer base of Southern Water forward of the deliberate opening of the English retail water market.

That market change in 2017 paved the best way for 1.2 million companies and public our bodies in England to have the ability to select their water provider. In 2019 Enterprise Stream acquired the client base of Yorkshire Water Enterprise Providers (YWBS) and Three-Sixty, doubling its market share.

Enterprise Stream has its HQ in Edinburgh, in addition to bases in Worthing, West Sussex and in Bradford, West Yorkshire. It’s guided by its formidable imaginative and prescient to make a optimistic distinction (MAPD) to its clients, its individuals, the atmosphere and native communities.

Since launching that imaginative and prescient in 2019, the retailer has launched greater than 30 initiatives, together with its 20% water effectivity pledge to assist clients scale back water utilization. It has additionally invested in a tree-planting programme which has delivered a further 10,000 bushes in Scotland.

A number of of its MAPD initiatives have contributed to its newest discount in carbon emissions. Whereas the corporate achieved a 25% discount in 2021-22, the spectacular 2022-23 determine, which has been externally verified, is a big step towards Enterprise Stream changing into internet zero by 2030 – nicely forward of the Scottish Authorities’s 2045 goal.

In recognition of its efforts, the retailer was awarded a Gold score by world sustainability assessors, EcoVadis, in November 2022, putting it throughout the high 5% of firms measured throughout 4 key sustainability areas – the atmosphere, sustainable procurement, labour and dealing situations and ethics.