Being Green

At Avanta, we take our commitment to the environment seriously and are always looking at ways to minimise waste and maximise opportunities for helping others.  

Here are just some of the things we do:

We provide Belu bottled water free of charge for all our meeting room clients.  Whilst we believe that tap is best, we also understand that there is a need for bottled water, and Belu is the only brand that’s 100% carbon neutral and donates all its profits to WaterAid.  We also use glasses in our meeting rooms, to minimise waste from using disposable  plastic cups.

We continuously run a switch it off campaign and practice what we preach.  We encourage all clients to switch off electrical equipment when they’re not using it, and we contribute by switching off the air-conditioning and lights in all our buildings in the evenings and at weekends.  In addition, most of our meeting rooms have sensor lighting, so when they’re not in use, the lights aren’t on.

We encourage recycling in the communal areas of all our buildings by clearly marking what can be recycled and where.  We beat our target for 2011 by recycling over 72% of all our clients’ waste across all our venues and hope to increase this further in 2012.

We offer secure bicycle storage rooms where we can across our buildings as well as shower facilities. We promote the nearest cycle hire facilities in our central London locations giving people the opportunity to use pedal power to travel to our business centres.

We are proud to work with suppliers who also take their commitment seriously.  Our carpets are made by manufacturing processes which rely on renewable energy and seek to conserve water, as well as being made from environmentally friendly materials that can be biologically or technically recycled.  Our furniture is manufactured in accordance with BS EN ISO 14001 which seeks to identify and minimise the impact of the company's operations on the environment.  Even our coffee is triple certified and uses 100% recyclable cups!