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Project title

The Furniture College Letterfrack Moving Towards Environmental Excellence

Primary Funding Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

The Furniture College

Lead Applicant

Finnian Sheridan

Project Abstract

The first stage of the project will be to appoint a project team to work together with the goal of continuous improvement in the area of environment at the Furniture College Letterfrack. The idea will be to look at various aspects of our environmental performance and to take action towards improvement. The principal aim is to reduce the amount of resources we use thereby resulting in less waste produced less water wasted and lower energy bills.The entire college staff will be involved through monthly questionnaires which will ensure the involvement of everyone. Students will be given the opportunity to become involved through an open system of suggestion boxes. The project team will reflect the aspects of the activities which take place in the college and these will be the people who will bear the responsibility for taking action.The project will be run over an eight month period one meeting per month. The eight meetings will address the following topics:Drawing up of goals and vision building;Management and reduction of office wasteReduction of waste from furniture manufacture and demonstration;Energy conservation;Sustainable purchasing practices;Water conservation;Transport andEvaluation of progress made.It is anticipated that this project will help us to address fundamental changes in attitude and to make a significant difference in our environmental performance. We also believe that seeing good environmental management systems in operation in college will equip our students to make similar decision themselves.The benefits are:Letterfrack furniture college is viewed as a centre for excellence in manufacture;This programme will help couple this change with sustainability andWe anticipate that we will save money on waste disposal and energy bills as a result of this project.Back

Grant Approved

�13,748.00

Research Hub

Cleaner Production - Green Enterprise - Innovation and Demonstration

Research Theme

n/a

Start Date

01/08/2002

Initial Projected Completion Date

n/a