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History
Long before being green was fashionable Keep America Beautiful was founded to bring the public and private sectors together to develop and promote a national cleanliness ethic.
In the 1970's America embarked on a movement to battle pollution. The primary focus was on industry dumping chemicals and waste in rivers, smoke stakes pouring out toxins and dangerous auto vehicle emissions.
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In the 1990's the emphasis shifted to recycling practices. The intent was to encourage recycling by replacing as many products as possible with materials that could be recycled or reprocessed. Additional emphasis was placed on materials that would eventually decay in landfills or be incinerated. Unfortunately many of today’s recycling products are actually down cycled, many of these products consume as much energy converting them into reprocessed products than were consumed creating them in the first place. |
Recently manufacturers worldwide have taken Europe's direction to implement RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) compliance and WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) Directive. Any visit to a local landfill demonstrates the urgency of today’s disposable society.
The Next Industrial Revolution
The Next Industrial Revolution is the emerging transformation of human industry from a system that takes, makes, and wastes to one that celebrates natural, economic, and cultural abundance.
Products that, when their useful life is over, do not become useless waste, but can be tossed onto the ground to decompose and become food for plants and animals, rebuilding soil; or, alternately, return to industrial cycles to supply high quality raw materials for new products.
Participation in this new revolution requires companies to go beyond what is allowed by today's environmental standards and work towards the future.
Hueson Wire Statement on Sustainability
It is the objective of Hueson Wire to contribute where ever possible to adopt a responsible attitude to protecting the environment by developing innovative and sustainable design solutions.
At Hueson Wire we are committed to:
- Developing and adopting best practices of sustainability
- Specifying materials which are economic and do not require significant amounts of energy to produce
- Consider as a first option, the use of recycled materials.
- Making best use of existing infrastructure before embarking on new construction
- Eco-design solutions by the removal or reduction of any environmental impacts associated with a product or a service at the design stage - e.g. by using less materials and energy; substituting toxic materials with non-toxic materials; designing a product so that it can be disassembled at the end of its useful life and its components re-used or recycled, etc.
- Working in Partnership with suppliers, and customers to promote effective and meaningful environmental best practice
- Adopting sustainable drainage systems, including close liaison with Water Authorities and the local community,
- Adopting measurers to prevent pollution and adverse impact on the environment and local community
- Minimizing waste, re-use and recycling where ever possible
- Adopting energy efficient plant and materials
- Balancing economic viability with environmental and social responsibility to provide lifetime design solutions
- Developing a management system to demonstrate continual improvements in environmental and health and safety performance
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