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Supporting Sustainable Communities
The Wheel sees sustainable communities as socially resilient, environmentally healthy and economically thriving.
Overview of initiatives
We are engaged in a series of initiatives that highlight the importance of sustainable communities and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of international agreed goals that invite all people to ‘think globally and act locally’ to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and take action on climate change. Charities, community and voluntary organisations and social enterprises have a critical role to play in helping Ireland to meet its commitments as signatories to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Wheel is engaged in a series of projects to highlight the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals – click on any of the heading below to learn more:
The Wheel's Own Sustainability Journey
It’s not all policy and reports around here – we’re also doing our best to make our own work environment and practices as sustainable as possible!
Recent efforts include:
- In 2019 we moved to using compostable cups, plates and napkins for our in house training events. We now use Down 2 Earth materials, which will certifiably break down into soil within 6-weeks when commercially composted.
- Of course, that meant finding a provider who would compost these for us after use. Panda provide us with a brown bin for our food and compostable waste. This allows us as a team to dispose of our own food waste and scraps to be composted. We use Obeo food waste bags to make this process as neat and tidy as possible in our busy office kitchen!
- We are making a concentrated effort to only purchase recycled paper for our printer, and our company policy is to print everything on 2 sided paper, and only if necessary.
- At our events, we now only order meat free options for our refreshments.
- We also encourage our event attendees to bring along their reusable coffee cups and water bottles to cut down on the amount of disposable paper and plastic being used at off site events.
- When we travel to meetings and events, we take the train where possible and car pool if public transport is not an option.
- In addition to the above measures, in summer 2019 The Wheel welcomed our new desk buddies in the form of house plants as well as some colourful containers on our balcony. These have really brightened up our office environment!