We believe we can be the best providers of responsibly sourced, resource efficient products, fit for low carbon building and refurbishment, delivered with a low carbon footprint and minimal waste by people who care.

The Environment

Making sure that the high standards we’ve set in timber buying are maintained and replicated across other product areas.

Key Areas

-Timber and timber product buying
-Our approach to other product categories
-Managing upstream carbon emissions
-Our approach to resource efficiency

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Ensuring that our directly controlled environmental footprint is reduced as quickly as possible helps us deliver a sustainable competitive advantage.

Key Areas

-Reducing waste
-Reducing carbon emissions

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Finding new ways to enhance the environmental credentials of the products we distribute and services we offer so that they remain at the forefront of change in a construction industry adapting to building in a sustainable way.

Key areas

-Timber and timber products
-Our approach to other product categories
-Waste reduction
-Product and service innovation

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Our advisory panel meets twice a year and is made up of real customers, suppliers and investors. Its function is to help us to identify trends and activities that will allow us to achieve our vision.

Download a PDF of our latest Environmental Report 2011

Download a PDF of our verification Certificate

Consumer Information

Key Areas

-Electrical Appliances 
-DTS - Distributor Take-back Scheme 
-Battery take back 

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WWF's Global Forest and Trade Network
We've been members of the GFTN since 2003.  Download a summary of the performance information we share with GFTN-UK.

The GFTN is WWF’s initiative to eliminate illegal logging and drive improvements in forest management. Participants are committed to promoting responsible forestry and credible certification. For more information on the GFTN see www.gftn.panda.org

Carbon Trust
Travis Perkins PLC achieved the carbon trust Standard in 2010 – certifying that we have genuinely reduced our carbon footprint.

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We signed the halving waste to landfill agreement in 2011

LRQA 
We have had full ISO 14001 certification for our Environmental Management System since 2001.  Download a PDF of the latest certificate

FSC®
We have been FSC® certified since 2003 

UKGBC 
We joined the UKGBC in 2012