All Heritage Certified Members are required to comply with the following Charter across their operations

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The Heritage Environmental Charter

 

We recognise that our business has an important role to play in protecting and enhancing the environment for future generations, and to help secure the long-term sustainability of the tourism industry.

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To this end our company is committed in taking action:



• To achieve sound environmental practices across our entire operation
• To comply fully with all environmental legislation
• To minimise our use of energy, water and materials
• To minimise our waste and to reduce, reuse and recycle the resources consumed by our business wherever practical
• To reduce our pollution to a minimum and, where appropriate, to treat effluents
• To invite our customers, suppliers and contractors to participate in our efforts to protect the environment
• Where we can, to work with others in the tourism industry, in public agencies and the community to achieve wider environmental goals
• To provide all employees with the training and resources required to meet our objectives
• To openly communicate our policies and practices to interested parties
• To fairly and accurately describe our environmental impacts, remedies and achievements and to ernsure that our performance is communicated unabiguisly to the public
• To monitor and record our environmental impacts on a regular basis and compare our performance with our policies, objectives and targets