Why have S2S Group signed up to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
Environmental responsibility is core to who S2S Group is as a business. As well as encouraging its customers to recycle their assets responsibly, S2S Group makes sure it’s constantly improving its environmental and ethical practices too.
Because of the longstanding commitment to the highest environmental and ethical standards, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) matter greatly. The company is committed to setting ambitious targets and reporting on progress, in addition to educating, encouraging, and influencing both suppliers & customers to do the same.
In addition to playing a critical role in advancing global development, the UN SDG’s offer commercial benefits to those signing up. The commitment to sustainable development allows for organisations to blend commercial and ethical purpose, generating a unique competitive advantage to meet the expectations of discerning consumers, investors, and employees.
A quick background on Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), adopted by the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly in September 2015, are a set of 17 ambitious, interrelated objectives, along with associated targets (169 total) and indicators (244), established to advance the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
S2S Group supports the 2030 Agenda and has sought to better understand how the business can contribute to the SDG’s achievement and measure impact in a meaningful way. S2S Group’s initial review of the SDGs has identified areas where the business can make a positive contribution.
Throughout 2021 we reviewed our business activity, and 3 SDGs were highlighted (8, 12 & 13) as our ‘Priority Goals’.
In 2025 we added SDG 5 to our commitment plan. In essence, these are the goals that we feel we can provide the most direct positive impact:
SDG 5: Gender equality
High-Level Commitment – Achieve Gender equality within the business
S2S Group’s measurable targets are:
SDG 8: Commitment to decent work and economic growth
High-Level Commitment – S2S Group will generate employment, pay the national living wage, and boost the local economy.
S2S Group’s measurable targets are:
SDG 12: Commitment to responsible consumption and production
High-Level Commitment – To reduce the amount of waste we produce as a business and encourage users to look at second-user IT equipment.
It is S2S Group policy to not dispose of any products, waste materials, raw materials, and packaging directly into a landfill facility, or discharging to land. S2S Group ensures that all waste materials recovered at their facility are recycled using methods that achieve the highest possible recycling rate, be it via sending for further processing at another recycling facility, or to an energy recovery facility (efw).
S2S Group’s measurable targets are:
SDG 13: Commitment to tackle climate change
High-Level Commitment – To be a Net Zero Business by 2050
Aligned to industry best practice S2S Group seeks to reduce the business impact on the environment within internal operations by monitoring energy use. The company’s new facility was specified to include LED lighting as well as energy-efficient heaters. S2S Group’s energy supplier contract is based on renewable energy as well as cost consideration data. Although the current operations are considered energy efficient, S2S Group are in the process of setting Scope 1 and 2 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction targets including developing targeted measures to reduce this year on year.
S2S Group’s measurable targets are:
Measurable targets
S2S Group will..
Ensure that the business is a ‘Real Living Wage Employer’ by the end of 2022, which was achieved.
Maintain the recycling rate at 99% or above by 2025
By 2030…
S2S Group will help create career opportunities for 50 people
S2S Group will achieve a re-sale percentage of 75% on ‘good’ incoming equipment;
S2S Group will engage with all suppliers to reduce consumption and waste
