Environmental and Sustainability Policy

A practical environmental policy with a signed statement, legal compliance register, objectives, waste duty of care checks and a carbon data sheet.

Editable Word document
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Guidance notes included
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Health, safety & compliance

Environmental and Sustainability Policy

About this document

What it’s for

An environmental and sustainability policy that commits your business to meeting its legal duties, reducing its impact and improving year on year. It includes a short public policy statement, the detailed arrangements behind it, and working tools for waste, energy and carbon.

When to use it

  • When customers, tenders or lenders ask for your environmental policy
  • To show you meet waste duty of care and workplace recycling rules
  • As a first step towards ISO 14001, a carbon reduction plan or net zero commitment

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Purpose and scope
  2. Definitions
  3. Responsibilities
  4. Legal compliance
  5. Objectives and targets
  6. Our arrangements
  7. Environmental incidents
  8. Training and communication
  9. Monitoring, reporting and review

Also included

  • Policy statement
  • Energy and carbon
  • Waste and resources
  • Travel and transport
  • Procurement
  • Water and pollution prevention
  • Biodiversity and community
  • Approval

How to complete it

  • Complete the aspects and impacts register (Appendix A) first
  • Set three to six realistic objectives with targets in section 5
  • Check which laws apply using the compliance register (Appendix B)
  • Publish the one-page statement and review progress at least annually

Key points to check

  • Only make environmental claims you can prove – see the Green Claims guidance
  • Workplace recycling rules differ in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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