Carphone Warehouse 2016 Annual Report Download - page 37

Dixons Carphone plc Annual Report and Accounts 2015/16
Strategic Report
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status in our audits. Once suppliers have been approved they
remain subject to regular checks and audits and their status
may be adjusted accordingly. These supplier audits are carried
out with a view to assisting them in improving their working
practices and we work with factories where failures have been
identified. Wherever we can, we work with the supplier to make
improvements; where this is not possible or no improvements
are made, they will not be approved as a supplier, or will be
delisted as appropriate. During the year under review, 21
suppliers were classified as red, failed to make improvements
and therefore the Group did not approve them to supply our
branded products or they were delisted.
The results of ethical supply chain audits carried out during the
period under review are:
Red Amber Green
Total
audits
Delisted
/
Not
approved
A
udit status 26 97 – 123 21
Waste and recycling
We strive to deliver continuous improvements to our recycling
and sustainability programme. All recyclate from our stores is
now backhauled to our national recycling facility at Newark.
Across our estate, our 16 customer service centre depots have
standardised equipment to deliver consistent grades of
cardboard, plastic and expanded polystyrene to our recyclers
in order to ensure we utilise the transport to a maximum and
obtain the best value we can achieve for our material. Our
volumes increased by 126 tonnes since 2014/15. Working with
our recyclers we have been able to deliver to the hierarchy of
waste requirements to provide single stream materials for
recycling, thus providing high-quality raw materials into
manufacturing processes preventing the need for further virgin
materials to be purchased.
Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment (‘WEEE’)
We provide access for charities and re-use companies to our
16 customer service centre depots across the estate where
selected white goods units are picked for potential re-use.
This year 67,000 units were re-used in the third sector,
providing local communities across the UK with affordable
products. Alongside the social benefit, this initiative saved
around 7,000 tonnes of CO2. For the 1.1 million units that
cannot be re-used, which equates to around 55,000 tonnes,
these are recycled and sorted into the various grades of metal /
other materials to be manufactured into new products.
This Strategic Report was approved by the Board and signed
on its behalf by:
Sebastian James Humphrey Singer
Group Chief Executive Group Finance Director
28 June 2016 28 June 2016
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