A number of initiatives were launched during the week, including a \u2018Turn- Off\u2019 campaign, reminding dockside and office staff to switch off unused equipment and a Green Travel Plan, encouraging co-workers to lift share, use public transport, or cycle to work. \u201cThere is greater pressure than ever before, upon both businesses and individuals, to look at the way we live and to reduce the impact we have on the environment,\u201d says Chris Lewis, Chief Executive Officer of the Hutchison Ports (UK) Limited, which owns the Port of Felixstowe. \u201cIn addition to the actions we are taking as a company, and as a sign of the Port\u2019s commitment to this initiative, we will be giving each of our 2,800 employees in Felixstowe a free low-energy light bulb to use at home to help reduce their individual impacts upon the environment. I hope that Environment Week will be merely the start, that everyone at the Port will engage with the initiative, and that we will continue to work together towards a \u2018greener\u2019 future,\u201d In addition, temporary<\/p>\n
<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Employees get a free low-energy light bulb to use at home\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n recycling points will be located on the Port to encourage the recycling of household waste, whilst permanent recycling points will be installed near vending machines to maintain the port\u2019s recycling commitment beyond \u2018Environment Week\u2019 itself. The Port is also progressing various other projects to improve its environmental performance. These include working with the Carbon Trust to develop its carbon management programme, and to reduce energy used in buildings, lighting and equipment, as well as increasing the amount of waste sent for recycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Port of Felixstowe, in conjunction with several of the East of England\u2019s leading environmental organisations, held an Environment Week from 28 April to 2 May 2008. The week focused on raising awareness of the environmental issues facing society, and highlighted the actions that the Port\u2019s employees, and the Port as a whole, can take to lessen the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}