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Ethical and Environmental Policy

Jamie's is a division of a local homeless charity, and primarily exists to provide learning and training opportunities to it's residents and service users, as well as other vulnerable adults in the city. To cover the cost of delivering this aim and with the aim of being self-sufficient in terms of income, Jamie's offers commercial services. Throughout all activities Jamie's involves it's members and work based learning schemes are at the core of the organisation. For example, Jamie's has around 350 members signed up to date and has provided around 20 work placements - a progression route for those re-skilling and intending to return to work. The commercial activities at Jamie's also have key environmental aims:

The collection service has to date prevented 250 tonnes of redundant IT from going to landfill. Jamie's re-uses as much equipment as possible to build working machines for re-use, and anything that cannot be salvaged is sent for recycling with a registered waste management company, i.e. nothing goes to landfill.

Re-using machines obviously negates the need to purchase new equipment, meaning that ultimately Jamie's has an impact on how much new equipment is entering the market.

The project as a whole has also impacted on people's perception of environmental issues and could boast that it has helped to change the way comsumers and businesses purchase products and services.