Environmental

James Tobias recognise the global need for sustainable development

Our focus on commercial sustainability

We are actively working to reduce the environmental footprint of our products, services, office locations, and supply chain.

To implement our environmental strategy, we will periodically manage and review the ongoing development and implementation of our objectives.

Fully supported by our senior management team, James Tobias is committed to improving the environmental and commercial performance of our business.

Our sustainability goals

Working together, James Tobias pledge to:

Adhere to the current environmental legislation, whilst also striving to work above and beyond it – and anticipate any changes to come.
Implement a waste management strategy to minimise waste production. This will also decrease the use of landfills through recycling and supply chain management.
Implement an energy strategy to improve energy efficiency, and source green energy wherever possible.
Build an environmentally responsible supply chain and sub-contractor network.
Educate, train, and motivate our employees to help us achieve our commitment to sustainability whilst incorporating sustainable commercial design.
Continuously improve our sustainability strategy, both internally and with our supply chain and sub-contractor networks.

Our revolutionary RPC material

We’ve teamed up with Stormboard to create a sustainable alternative to wood.

We’re taking unrecyclable post-consumer mixed plastic waste, and transforming it into sidewalls and panelling which are used to create beautiful, sustainable commercial interiors.

One standard James Tobias StorageWall unit using RPC sidewalls contains the equivalent of:

4,000 bottle tops
1,600 yoghurt pots
1,100 cosmetic bottles
14,000 straws
2,800 single-use plastic cups

The waste plastic is cleaned, then ground up into granules ready for use. The outer skin of our RPC boards is made up of slightly higher grade waste that is pulverised into a powder.

RPC is a product you can trust

The UK imports almost 1.4 million cubic metres of plywood each year and as a result, many tonnes of waste wood is produced by businesses and households.

Our RPC is a highly carbon efficient alternative to MFC, for a number of reasons:

All core plastic used is from UK waste and so doesn’t have to travel far before being turned into RPC.
No harmful chemicals are added during the production process, and the plastic is only heated once.
All plastic waste and offcuts from production are recycled back into the manufacturing process.
RPC boards can be reused many times, and are then recycled back into the manufacturing process once they are at the end of their life.
The creation of these boards hugely reduces the amount of low grade plastic going into landfill.

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