Sustainability at Hull’s

A sustainable Hull’s

Here at Hull’s of Ballymena, we recognise the need for environmentally sustainable business processes and our responsibility to operate in a way that will minimise adverse effects on the environment.

Our Environmental Policy is a corporate commitment to work together with our employees, customers, suppliers and appropriate public bodies to achieve this aim and to continuously improve our environmental performance.

Our commitment to a green future

We will commit to adopting working practices that will help to have a positive effect, assist in continued environmental improvement, prevent pollution, and reduce any avoidable negative impacts caused by Doherty & Gray’s activities.

Our policies to achieve our environmental goals

Our environmental policy sets out the following objectives to be specifically targeted by the company:

To involve all employees in the implementation of the policy
To monitor and meet the requirements of all environmental legislation and regulations
To reduce waste, energy, water consumption, pollution and noise levels throughout the companies activities, and to ensure waste that does arise is treated and disposed of with minimum adverse effect
To ensure all purchased equipment, vehicles, buildings and materials are selected to minimise adverse environmental impact
To ensure that suppliers will meet high standards of environmental performance

The work we do

Responsible use of raw materials and packaging

All pre-packed raw materials supplied to Doherty & Gray Ltd. shall be included in the obligation to recycle packaging.

Doherty & Gray Ltd. have registered with the Northern Ireland Environment & Heritage Services in accordance with the Producer Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999.

Green energy

Doherty & Gray Ltd. are signed up to An Underlying Climate Change Agreement for the Meat Processing Sector, Agreement No: BMF /10127.

As part of this, we hold our own wind turbine on site to assist in our sustainable energy production goals.

Also, we continually work to monitor our emissions, to reduce water wastage and to encourage environmentally protective practice in our staff and stakeholders.