Championing sustainability
At Milton Park’s science and technology centre, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, striving to make a positive contribution to the environment in which we operate and address the current climate emergency.
Greener workplace forum
Set up in 2017 by Veronica Reynolds, the Park’s Sustainability and Community Manager (formerly known as the Sustainable Travel Forum), the Greener Workplace Forum has two representatives from over 45 companies across the Park.
As an independent group, the aim is to share best practice and raise awareness of existing green initiatives around energy use, recycling and transport, and be a collective voice when lobbying for infrastructure improvements and investment which help to reduce emissions from transport, buildings and plant and create more space for nature.
Reduce, reuse, recycle
In commitment to improve our supply, consumption and waste processes, we recently secured the British Standards Institution (BSI) ISO 14001 certification for Environmental Management Systems (EMS).
We have a zero-to-landfill waste policy, resulting in approximately 250 tonnes of mixed recycling being processed each year. Maintenance vehicles and tools on-site are electric-powered and we have increased the number of electric vehicle (EV) charging points. We also plan to install more solar panels to expand clean energy usage.
Our maintenance team partner with Happy Earth Soil, a local Oxfordshire company, to collect green waste across the estate and convert it into organic compost for the Park’s plants and urban garden plots. We enforce a chemical-free policy to eliminate the use of pesticides, promoting biodiversity.