21 June 2010 : Written by Rhian Evans and Geoff Vaughan
Campingninja is committed in minimising the environmental impact of its business as well as promoting businesses with effective environmental policies. We have created our environmental policy in order to have clear guidelines in place about how we run our business.
Campingninja's website
- To actively promote our love of camping and it's positive effects as a responsible, low impact alternative holiday or break.
- Promote local businesses, events and products surrounding campsites to generate revenue for local and rural areas.
- Promote campsites' green inititatives such as receiving industry awards. e.g the Green Business Tourism Award or David Bellamy award. Highlight campsites with effective policies for re-cycling, alternative energy use, local produce for sale and public transport pick ups. Allow the general public to filter their search results for campsites and make green choices.
- Promote public transport as a means of reaching campsites by giving campers the information to get their car free.
- Assist / advise / point in the right direction campsites who would like to make greener choices.
Campingninja Operations
- Minimise waste by continually evaluating operating procedures and aiming for zero waste.
- Actively promote total re-cycling of all business materials for 2010.
- Source products which are sustainable and minimise the impact on the environment. This is from fairtrade teas and coffee, re-cycled office paper to using a carbon neutral website hosting company.
- Aim for a paperless office - storing all documents online and sharing.
- Only print when absolutely necessary - double sided; greyscale; fast (unless there is a clear business need for something else).
- Encourage staff travel by public transport.
- Become Carbon neutral by 2011.
- Work towards our own "green" accreditation scheme
- Campingninja will not sell data to other parties.
- Campingninja will not send any "spam" emails.
- Campingninja will only accept advertising fees from companies with effective environmental policies.