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Binit Group Ltd's Climate Report
Submitted on 2024-11-12
The SME Reporting Tool
Introduction *
Commitment and Targets *
Own Emissions *
Value Chain Emissions *
(optional)
Climate Solutions *
(optional)
Management, Strategy and Climate Risk *
(optional)
Results, Challenges and Outlook *
Version 3.0
Introduction *
1.1 Reporting year
*2024
1.1.1 Reporting period
*from 4.2023 to 3.2024
1.2 Describe your business activities
*Binit is a next-generation tech-led waste and recycling company based in Exeter.
We are here to revolutionise the industry and redefine how businesses think
about waste. We offer a smart, responsive service based on data, analytics and
our unique collection network. We operate on an Uber-model which offers our
customers flexibility and less vehicle movement (minimising CO2 production).
We do not operate any vehicles, but we own our bins. We are industry disrupters. Where other management companies increase their revenue with increasing waste collections, we have a genuine interest in helping our customers decrease their waste and recycling more while still maintaining our revenue using tech. We do this by offering subscription
services alongside our waste collections.
1.4 Number of employees in the reporting year
*6.4
1.4.1 Full-time equivalent (FTE) or headcounts
*Full-time equivalent
1.5 Let us know if your company is a parent company or subsidiary
*Not applicable
Commitment and Targets *
2.1 Net zero target year
*2030
2.1.1 Base year
*2022
2.2 Near-term target
*50% of absolute total emission reduction from my base year by 2025
2.3 Provide any additional comments or context on your net zero and near term targets.
*Binit aim to be Net Zero by 2025. We send zero waste to landfill wherever
possible and work to support the development of infrastructure that will make
this more achievable for our customers. As mentioned previously, we help our
customers recycle more and to gather data so we can help them reduce the
waste they produce and reduce heavy vehicle movements in our urban areas; to
get litter off the streets. We are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accredited. We will set
and monitor objectives and targets for managing our environmental
performance and aim to improve these each year. This year, our key objectives
are to: apply to become a B Corp to enshrine our commitments in our legal
structure and become Carbon Neutral and collate baseline data on our carbon
performance for next year’s metrics.
We reuse old or used office furniture whenever possible and promote a
partnership platform to find new homes for office furniture and supplies which
would otherwise be disposed of. The items we do need to purchase are from
100% recycled paper and other stationery is made from post-consumer waste.
We consciously find office space in buildings that meet our high standards for
renewable energy and high environmental standards in both their build and
operations. We use our public platform to educate others, promote the circular
economy and to encourage collaborative working as the only way to secure a
truly sustainable future.
Our dedicated customer service team work with customers to provide
recommendations to improve their current service. For example, changes to
frequency levels or implementing additional recycling streams. With our
subscription services, we offer our customers access to carbon offsetting
projects through Earthly such as agroforestry. All subscription customers have
personal dashboards including reporting for features like recycling rate,
benchmarking against sites and carbon emissions produced. We are also alpha
testing hardware that will reinforce our data and improve infrastructure in the
industry. The wider impact this has on our customers is that they can more
accurately carry out carbon reporting, apply for B-Corp certifications, etc. We
also have an app which customers can use to measure the fullness of their bins,
which is not typically measured in the waste industry. We work with our
customers to create bespoke waste and resource strategy, linked to any other
pre-existing corporate strategies they may have. We can also help curate
resources for behaviour change within organisations.
Own Emissions *
3.1 To reduce emissions in line with my commitment, my company has a plan and is taking action
*Yes
Energy consumption
3.2 Total energy consumption
*62061.74 kwh
3.3 Renewable energy
*415 kwh
Scope 1 emissions
3.4 Scope 1 emissions
*0 metric tons CO2e
Scope 2 emissions
3.5 Location based scope 2 emissions
*0.666 metric tons CO2e
3.7 Describe your plans and actions taken to reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions.
*• To reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by March 24.
• We send zero waste to landfill wherever possible and work to support the
development of infrastructure that will make this more achievable for our
customers.
• We will be transparent in our activities and share the results of our successes
and failures so others can learn from them.
• We reuse old or used office furniture whenever possible and promote a
partnership platform to find new homes for office furniture and supplies which
would otherwise be disposed of.
• The items we do need to purchase are from 100% recycled paper and other
stationery is made from post-consumer waste. We aim to reduce paper and
other office waste as much as possible, with all used paper, cardboard and
plastic either reused or recycled. Food waste is composted and all other
materials such as toner cartridges, lightbulbs and IT equipment are also recycled.
• Every effort is made to achieve energy efficiency in the office by powering down or turning off equipment when not in use. We consciously find office space in buildings that meet our high standards for renewable energy and high
environmental standards in both their build and operations.
• Our team is encouraged to walk, cycle or to use public transport to travel to work and to client sites.
• Our annual staff volunteer day is spent undertaking environmental activities with selected not-for-profit organisations.
• We will set and monitor objectives and targets for managing our environmental
performance and aim to improve these each year. This year, our key objectives
are to:
o Apply to become a B Corp to enshrine our commitments in our legal
structure
o Become Carbon Neutral and collate baseline data on our carbon
performance for next year’s metrics.
• We will continually ask for feedback from the team and customers and be open
to continuous improvement in our performance.
• We will make sure the team is continually trained to keep up-to-date with
environmental legislation and the cutting edge great stuff that is going on
elsewhere.
• We will use our public platform to educate others, promote the circular economy and to encourage collaborative working as the only way to secure a truly sustainable future
3.8 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy, including any tools/methods used to calculate.
*We have used Ecologi as well as manual tracking. It is as accurate as the data that has been provided to us.
Value Chain Emissions (optional) *
Scope 3 emissions
4.1 Have you measured any of your scope 3 emissions?
*Yes
4.1.1 Total scope 3 emissions
*61.39574 metric tons CO2e
Supply chain related - upstream emissions
Customer related - downstream emissions
4.1.17 Do you have a plan and are taking action to reduce emissions from your value chain?
*Yes
It is a current work in progress
4.2 Have you asked any of your suppliers to set a net zero target (either voluntarily or as a requirement)?
*No
4.3 Have you communicated your commitment and actions to any of your customers?
*Yes
4.4 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy and any tools used to calculate your scope 3 emissions.
*We have used Ecologi and manual methods. All data used is as accurate as it was given to us.
Climate Solutions (optional) *
5.1 Do you classify any of your existing goods and/or services as a climate solution?
*Yes
5.2 What percentage of your total revenue comes from sales of climate solutions?
*2.49 %
5.3 Provide descriptions/names of your climate solutions:
*We provide consultancy and subscriptions for sustainable strategy and solutions
5.4 Methodology used to assess these as climate solutions, and third party which has validated the assessment, if any:
*Based off over 20+ years experience in the waste industry
Management, Strategy and Climate Risk (optional) *
6.1 What governance processes do you have in place for your climate strategy? Choose as many as are applicable.
*Governance process in place,Person is responsible for climate strategy at board level
6.1.1 Please describe their position and responsibility.
*Philippa Roberts, our co-founder and CEO is responsible for Binit’s sustainability interventions and successes. Binit is ISO 9001 and 14001 certified and is committed to continuous improvement. Binit implements a sustainable quality culture across all its activities, and achieves this by:
Appointing and training suitable personnel responsible for implementing policies and procedures to achieve Binit’s core aim and commitments.
Striving to ensure Binit remains compliant with all customer requirements, including working towards accreditations and any legal requirements relevant to the business.
Working hard to ensure that the quality policy and objectives set out in
Binit’s strategic vision are matched by the management systems used.
Ensuring Binit use the best systems, practices, leadership, and management structure required to deliver this policy.
Looking to constantly identify and provide market leading training to all employees to ensure the high standards expected are met.
Committing to the highest quality performance across all services.
Setting challenging quality performance targets and objectives.
6.1.2 Is this person (or another at executive and board level) also responsible for climate risk?
*Yes
6.2 Have you started to identify and assess your companies climate risks and opportunities?
*Yes - we have identified climate risks
6.2.1 Where are the climate risks you've identified?
*Own operations
6.2.2 How are you managing these climate risks? Choose as many as are applicable.
*We\'ve started to prioritise climate risks,We\'ve assessed these risks against revenue of the company
6.3 Have you integrated climate and/or nature into your company mission statement or shareholder agreements? If yes, describe how.
*Yes
Our purpose is to revolutionise the industry and redefine how businesses think about waste. Our vision is a world where nothing is wasted – time, resources, money and effort. Our mission is to offer a smart responsive service based on data, analytics and our unique collection network. Our positioning is Binit Better: For your business and our planet
6.4 Have you taken actions this year outside of your emissions to accelerate climate progress?
*Yes
Offering consultancy and subscriptions with sustainable interventions.
Results, Challenges and Outlook *
7.1 Provide any additional comments or context on your annual results and progress from previous years.
*N/A
7.2 Do you face any key challenges in reducing emissions?
*Limited control over energy use in buildings,Balancing emission reductions with business growth,Complexities in managing supply chain emissions,Slow societal and economic progress on climate action,Time constraints
7.3 Has there been any third party validation of the data submitted in this report?
*Yes
Ecologi
Binit Group Ltd's Climate Report
Binit Group Ltd's Climate Report - 2024
Introduction *
1.1 Reporting year
*2024
1.1.1 Reporting period
*from 4.2023 to 3.2024
1.2 Describe your business activities
*Binit is a next-generation tech-led waste and recycling company based in Exeter.
We are here to revolutionise the industry and redefine how businesses think
about waste. We offer a smart, responsive service based on data, analytics and
our unique collection network. We operate on an Uber-model which offers our
customers flexibility and less vehicle movement (minimising CO2 production).
We do not operate any vehicles, but we own our bins. We are industry disrupters. Where other management companies increase their revenue with increasing waste collections, we have a genuine interest in helping our customers decrease their waste and recycling more while still maintaining our revenue using tech. We do this by offering subscription
services alongside our waste collections.
1.4 Number of employees in the reporting year
*6.4
1.4.1 Full-time equivalent (FTE) or headcounts
*Full-time equivalent
1.5 Let us know if your company is a parent company or subsidiary
*Not applicable
Commitment and Targets *
2.1 Net zero target year
*2030
2.1.1 Base year
*2022
2.2 Near-term target
*50% of absolute total emission reduction from my base year by 2025
2.3 Provide any additional comments or context on your net zero and near term targets.
*Binit aim to be Net Zero by 2025. We send zero waste to landfill wherever
possible and work to support the development of infrastructure that will make
this more achievable for our customers. As mentioned previously, we help our
customers recycle more and to gather data so we can help them reduce the
waste they produce and reduce heavy vehicle movements in our urban areas; to
get litter off the streets. We are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accredited. We will set
and monitor objectives and targets for managing our environmental
performance and aim to improve these each year. This year, our key objectives
are to: apply to become a B Corp to enshrine our commitments in our legal
structure and become Carbon Neutral and collate baseline data on our carbon
performance for next year’s metrics.
We reuse old or used office furniture whenever possible and promote a
partnership platform to find new homes for office furniture and supplies which
would otherwise be disposed of. The items we do need to purchase are from
100% recycled paper and other stationery is made from post-consumer waste.
We consciously find office space in buildings that meet our high standards for
renewable energy and high environmental standards in both their build and
operations. We use our public platform to educate others, promote the circular
economy and to encourage collaborative working as the only way to secure a
truly sustainable future.
Our dedicated customer service team work with customers to provide
recommendations to improve their current service. For example, changes to
frequency levels or implementing additional recycling streams. With our
subscription services, we offer our customers access to carbon offsetting
projects through Earthly such as agroforestry. All subscription customers have
personal dashboards including reporting for features like recycling rate,
benchmarking against sites and carbon emissions produced. We are also alpha
testing hardware that will reinforce our data and improve infrastructure in the
industry. The wider impact this has on our customers is that they can more
accurately carry out carbon reporting, apply for B-Corp certifications, etc. We
also have an app which customers can use to measure the fullness of their bins,
which is not typically measured in the waste industry. We work with our
customers to create bespoke waste and resource strategy, linked to any other
pre-existing corporate strategies they may have. We can also help curate
resources for behaviour change within organisations.
Own Emissions *
3.1 To reduce emissions in line with my commitment, my company has a plan and is taking action
*Yes
Energy consumption
3.2 Total energy consumption
*62061.74 kwh
3.3 Renewable energy
*415 kwh
Scope 1 emissions
3.4 Scope 1 emissions
*0 metric tons CO2e
Scope 2 emissions
3.5 Location based scope 2 emissions
*0.666 metric tons CO2e
3.7 Describe your plans and actions taken to reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions.
*• To reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by March 24.
• We send zero waste to landfill wherever possible and work to support the
development of infrastructure that will make this more achievable for our
customers.
• We will be transparent in our activities and share the results of our successes
and failures so others can learn from them.
• We reuse old or used office furniture whenever possible and promote a
partnership platform to find new homes for office furniture and supplies which
would otherwise be disposed of.
• The items we do need to purchase are from 100% recycled paper and other
stationery is made from post-consumer waste. We aim to reduce paper and
other office waste as much as possible, with all used paper, cardboard and
plastic either reused or recycled. Food waste is composted and all other
materials such as toner cartridges, lightbulbs and IT equipment are also recycled.
• Every effort is made to achieve energy efficiency in the office by powering down or turning off equipment when not in use. We consciously find office space in buildings that meet our high standards for renewable energy and high
environmental standards in both their build and operations.
• Our team is encouraged to walk, cycle or to use public transport to travel to work and to client sites.
• Our annual staff volunteer day is spent undertaking environmental activities with selected not-for-profit organisations.
• We will set and monitor objectives and targets for managing our environmental
performance and aim to improve these each year. This year, our key objectives
are to:
o Apply to become a B Corp to enshrine our commitments in our legal
structure
o Become Carbon Neutral and collate baseline data on our carbon
performance for next year’s metrics.
• We will continually ask for feedback from the team and customers and be open
to continuous improvement in our performance.
• We will make sure the team is continually trained to keep up-to-date with
environmental legislation and the cutting edge great stuff that is going on
elsewhere.
• We will use our public platform to educate others, promote the circular economy and to encourage collaborative working as the only way to secure a truly sustainable future
3.8 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy, including any tools/methods used to calculate.
*We have used Ecologi as well as manual tracking. It is as accurate as the data that has been provided to us.
Value Chain Emissions (optional) *
Scope 3 emissions
4.1 Have you measured any of your scope 3 emissions?
*Yes
4.1.1 Total scope 3 emissions
*61.39574 metric tons CO2e
Supply chain related - upstream emissions
Customer related - downstream emissions
4.1.17 Do you have a plan and are taking action to reduce emissions from your value chain?
*Yes
It is a current work in progress
4.2 Have you asked any of your suppliers to set a net zero target (either voluntarily or as a requirement)?
*No
4.3 Have you communicated your commitment and actions to any of your customers?
*Yes
4.4 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy and any tools used to calculate your scope 3 emissions.
*We have used Ecologi and manual methods. All data used is as accurate as it was given to us.
Climate Solutions (optional) *
5.1 Do you classify any of your existing goods and/or services as a climate solution?
*Yes
5.2 What percentage of your total revenue comes from sales of climate solutions?
*2.49 %
5.3 Provide descriptions/names of your climate solutions:
*We provide consultancy and subscriptions for sustainable strategy and solutions
5.4 Methodology used to assess these as climate solutions, and third party which has validated the assessment, if any:
*Based off over 20+ years experience in the waste industry
Management, Strategy and Climate Risk (optional) *
6.1 What governance processes do you have in place for your climate strategy? Choose as many as are applicable.
*Governance process in place,Person is responsible for climate strategy at board level
6.1.1 Please describe their position and responsibility.
*Philippa Roberts, our co-founder and CEO is responsible for Binit’s sustainability interventions and successes. Binit is ISO 9001 and 14001 certified and is committed to continuous improvement. Binit implements a sustainable quality culture across all its activities, and achieves this by:
Appointing and training suitable personnel responsible for implementing policies and procedures to achieve Binit’s core aim and commitments.
Striving to ensure Binit remains compliant with all customer requirements, including working towards accreditations and any legal requirements relevant to the business.
Working hard to ensure that the quality policy and objectives set out in
Binit’s strategic vision are matched by the management systems used.
Ensuring Binit use the best systems, practices, leadership, and management structure required to deliver this policy.
Looking to constantly identify and provide market leading training to all employees to ensure the high standards expected are met.
Committing to the highest quality performance across all services.
Setting challenging quality performance targets and objectives.
6.1.2 Is this person (or another at executive and board level) also responsible for climate risk?
*Yes
6.2 Have you started to identify and assess your companies climate risks and opportunities?
*Yes - we have identified climate risks
6.2.1 Where are the climate risks you've identified?
*Own operations
6.2.2 How are you managing these climate risks? Choose as many as are applicable.
*We\'ve started to prioritise climate risks,We\'ve assessed these risks against revenue of the company
6.3 Have you integrated climate and/or nature into your company mission statement or shareholder agreements? If yes, describe how.
*Yes
Our purpose is to revolutionise the industry and redefine how businesses think about waste. Our vision is a world where nothing is wasted – time, resources, money and effort. Our mission is to offer a smart responsive service based on data, analytics and our unique collection network. Our positioning is Binit Better: For your business and our planet
6.4 Have you taken actions this year outside of your emissions to accelerate climate progress?
*Yes
Offering consultancy and subscriptions with sustainable interventions.
Results, Challenges and Outlook *
7.1 Provide any additional comments or context on your annual results and progress from previous years.
*N/A
7.2 Do you face any key challenges in reducing emissions?
*Limited control over energy use in buildings,Balancing emission reductions with business growth,Complexities in managing supply chain emissions,Slow societal and economic progress on climate action,Time constraints
7.3 Has there been any third party validation of the data submitted in this report?
*Yes
Ecologi
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