Jasun tackles environmental issues

Jasun Filtration has been award ISO 14001 environmental-management standards for its two factories at Bridgwater in Somerset. The company makes air filters, and director Graham Bentley explains, ‘In creating these products, we cause an impact on the environment. By setting up new standards through ISO 14001, we aim to reduce these environmental effects as well as reducing our own costs.’ More staff now walk or cycle to work, and the company has purchased a number of eco-friendly hybrid cars. Only recyclable, environmental card is used in products, and packaging has been reduced. Off-cuts from bag manufacture are used as packaging material, and drums collected through packaging are decontaminated and recycled or returned to suppliers for refilling.
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