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Dixons Carphone plc Annual Report and Accounts 2014/15
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Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting
This section provides the emission data and supporting
information required by The Companies Act 2006 (Strategic
Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013, Part 7:
Disclosures Concerning Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
This report covers the international operations of the Group,
including the UK & Ireland; Nordics and Southern Europe.
Operational control has been used to determine organisational
boundary. All scope one and two emissions are included
except where noted.
The GHG emissions for the Dixons Retail business are:
2014/15 2013/14
Category / source of emissions
Tonnes of
CO2
emitted(1)
Increase /
(decrease)
%
Tonnes of
CO2
emitted(1)
Emissions from
combustion of fuel(3) 18,019
18.2% 15,239
Emissions from operation
of any facility 3,132
74.7% 1,793
Emissions from purchase
of electricity 97,129
(4.5)% 101,757
118,280 (0.4)% 118,789
2014/15 2013/14
Tonnes
of CO2
emitted per
1,000 sq ft
of floor
area(4)
Tonnes
of CO2
emitted per
1,000 sq ft
of floor
area(4)
Intensity measure 7.02 6.97
The GHG emissions for the Carphone Warehouse business
are:
2014/15 2013/14
Category / source of emissions
Tonnes of
CO2
emitted(1)
Increase /
(decrease)
%
Tonnes of
CO2
emitted(1)
Emissions from combustion
of fuel 3,058
33.6% 2,289
Emissions from operation of
any facility 548
7.2% 511
Emissions from purchase of
electricity 33,690
0.8% 33,408
37,296 3.0% 36,208
2014/15 2013
/
14
Tonnes
of CO2
emitted per
1,000 sq ft
of floor
area(5)
Tonnes
of CO2
emitted per
1,000 sq ft
of floor
area(5)
Intensity measure 17.70 Data
unavailable(5)
(1) Exclusions comprise: Franchises as they do not fall directly under
the Group’s operational control. Emissions from Carphone
Warehouse’s retail operations in France have been excluded as an
agreement in principle has been reached for the sale of Dixons
Carphone’s operations in this territory. Following Dixons
Carphone’s announcements on 15 April and 24 April, business
interests in Germany and the Netherlands have been included
in this 2014/15 GHG reporting, however will be excluded from
future reporting.
(2) Emissions generated within properties occupied by the Group
but operated by the relevant landlord and refrigerant data from
Nordics are excluded as data was not available (although this
is estimated to be approximately 1% of total emissions for
the Group).
(3) Emissions from the combustion of fuel comprises an increased
data set due to identified wider scope from 2013/14.
(4) Overall floor area of the Dixons Retail business is estimated to be
16,845,934 sq ft (2013/14: 17,052,000 sq ft) and the calculations
use the methodology set out in DEFRA’s updated greenhouse gas
reporting guidance, Environmental Reporting Guidelines (ref. PB
13944), issued in June 2013.
(5) We have synchronised the emissions intensity measure for the
Carphone Warehouse portfolio to tonnes CO2 emitted per
1,000 sq ft of floor area for this reporting year. As such,
an intensity measure comparison against last year would be
difficult, however, this will allow data to be merged in future.
Overall floor area of the Carphone Warehouse business is
estimated to be 2,106,753 sq ft and as with Dixons Retail, the
calculations use the methodology set out in DEFRA’s updated
greenhouse gas reporting guidance, Environmental Reporting
Guidelines (ref. PB 13944), issued in June 2013.
(6) 2014/15 Carphone Warehouse GHG reporting includes emissions
from directly owned and leased vehicles, company cars, and
delivery fleets which were not included in 2013/14.
Waste and recycling
We have driven sustainability and efficiencies through refuse
and recycling across the Group. In the last year, 75% of
material generated by our stores now goes to recycling
schemes and not into landfill.
We now backhaul our recyclables from 386 CurrysPCWorld
stores, an increase of 239 stores year on year, to our recycling
machinery in Newark. Stores return these recyclable materials
via the return leg of the delivery vehicles. In addition to
cardboard, polythene and expanded polystyrene we recycled
from our stores last year, we have extended the programme to
include paper recycling. As a group we are now one of the
UK’s single biggest recyclers of expanded polystyrene.
We have increased the volume of card, expended polystyrene
and polythene recyclate processed from our customer service
centres and Newark sites by 25% or 1,347 tonnes.
In the Nordics we participate in national take-back schemes,
in addition to handling waste at store and home deliveries.
There are also strict procedures in place for sorting and
reporting in all markets.
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Over 66,000 tonnes of WEEE was recycled in 2014/15, which
is an increase of 5,000 tonnes (8%) on 2013/14. Our volume
represents over 15% of the total UK WEEE market. We
recycled over 1.2 million white goods last year and backfilled
over 10,000 trailers that would have returned to base empty.
We have allowed a wide range of re-use companies and FRN
charities access to all 16 of our CSC depots to select white
goods units they feel are reuseable resulting in over 60,000
units last year being diverted from a scrap yard for destruction
to be cleaned, refurbished and reused, for example, by low
income families in many different regions of the UK. Not only
is there a social benefit to reuse, it also has an environmental
benefit and saved around 6,000 tonnes of carbon.