• Our commitment
• Our actions
• Our achievements

Our commitment

The Financial Times (FT) is committed to becoming climate neutral. As part of this, we have focused on reducing our waste and increasing recycling.

Our actions

We have made significant improvements in our recycling rate over recent years. From 2008-2009, we increased the amount of waste recycled at our London office by 37 per cent.

Waste collection system

As part of a wider building refurbishment in 2009, we introduced a new waste collection system.

Key features

• Individual bins removed to focus attention on reducing resource use.
• A new recycling focal-point service centre: standard waste (paper, newspapers and magazines, cardboard, plastics) is now stored and transported in a single skip and mechanically sorted at our recycling providers’ premises.
• An initiative to recycle alkaline, lithium and nickel cadmium batteries.
• A major refurbishment of the FT’s London office, with redundant furniture either reused at other Pearson sites or donated to charities (no furniture was sent to landfill).
• Employee engagement through initiatives such as posters to promote recycling both in the office and at home.

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