Vets4Pets Newport Environmental Policy

Vets4Pets Newport is a veterinary practice which specialises in small animal care.

 At Vets4Pets Newport, our veterinary team are always striving to provide friendly and knowledgeable support from initial advice to care for patients and pet owners. 

We acknowledge that our operations have an effect on the environment and have identified our key environmental aspects that contribute our environmental and carbon footprint:
•    Consumption of electricity, gas, water, and other fuels.
•    Use of anaesthetic gases.
•    Waste generation.
•    Transport emissions.
•    Use of raw materials, including prescribed drugs and medicines.
•    Procured goods and services with their own environmental impact.

Vets4Pets Newport is committed to reducing its environmental impact through a journey of continual improvement by working through the Investors in the Environment accreditation scheme. Our management’s commitment to the environment has secured us a general practice facility to provide a safe and healthy work environment for our employees, while providing a quality service that will improve the health and wellbeing of our patients. 

Our environmental commitment can be demonstrated in our established objectives and goals below: Commitment to net zero carbon emissions target by 2040 in alignment with corporate sustainability policies. 
•    Compliance with all applicable environmental regulations and public/customer expectations. 
•    Monitoring our key resource usage and implementing conservation techniques to achieve our environmental targets.     
•    Implement a waste/recycling policy and sustainable procurement policy.
•    Minimising unsustainable transport. 
•    Take part in [1] One Health sustainability project with our staff.
•    Working with suppliers to ensure they acknowledge and decrease the environmental impact of their products and transportation.
•    Significantly reducing paper usage and printing.
•    Reusing certain consumables where appropriate.
•    Reducing paper hand towel usage, plastic waste from hand wash, reusable drapes and reduced waste autoclave bags. 
•    Low flow anaesthesia to cut gas emissions. 
•    Educating staff to turn off appliances, lights, computers etc. that are not being used.

We will continue to improve our environmental management system by working to the Investors in the Environment (iiE) criteria, considering any changes in legislation, our organisation, and other factors. We will convey this policy to all our employees ensuring that they are provided with training to increase awareness of environmental matters.

Michelle Lawrence and Cath McCarthy are our Sustainability Champions and have designated responsibilities for the day-to-day implementation of this policy.

Vets4Pets Newport will make this policy available when requested to interested parties including members of the public, including making a copy available on the website.