UK-based waste management company Shanks has published its first environmental performance indicators report.
The report uses a set of indicators devised by the company to measure its UK environmental performance during 1999/2000.
Group chief executive Michael Averill said the reporting process would be ‘evolutionary’. He added that the indicators ‘will be reinforced for future use’.
This will involve improved data collection and verification plus increased use of targets, which the first report does not set.
Shanks will also extend its reporting to cover the group’s operations in Belgium and the Netherlands, where it employs around 2500 people.
Shanks, which had a turnover of £315million in 1999/2000, says the data in its first report is intended ‘to provide a benchmark against which future performance can be assessed’.
With other companies it is developing environmental performance indicators for the waste industry with the Green Alliance, an environmental NGO.