Environmental Statement

"Business Applications Limited, Enviro Green Since 1980 - Now Others Follow."

We're Green, are you ?

As of the 15th February 2010 Business Applications Limited is now a carboNZero Certified Small Enterprise company.  Making them once again the first in Gisborne.

For more information check out the carboNZero site and to see a list of our other firsts, click here. 

What is carboNZero ? 

The carboNZero programme was established in 2001 by Landcare Research New Zealand Limited, one of New Zealand's leading Crown Research Institutes, owned by the New Zealand government. The programme is based on over a decade of research on climate change, greenhouse gas measurement and carbon monitoring.

Business Applications Limited recognises the urgency of this issue and, as an innovation centre involved in the development of environmental technologies, aims to become an early adopter of and leader in sustainable business activity in New Zealand. We want not only to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but also to inspire others to demonstrate their commitment to maintaining and enhancing New Zealand’s environment.

An internationally recognised greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions management and reduction scheme for organisations, products, services and events, offering optional mitigation strategies through the provision of credible and verified offsets. Organisations that have measured, managed (reduced) and mitigated (offset) their GHG emissions can be carboNZero certified.

Are you Green ? 

We have been for almost 3 decades now and we are still going strong.

Business Applications Limited and Blueprint Imaging are not only locally owned and operated, but also firm believers in keeping the environment and our world clean and healthy for not only ourselves but our future generations as well.

As we are situated in the beautiful, sunny and green city of Gisborne, New Zealand.   As a company we have played our part for almost thirty years in keeping our local environment and with it the world a healthier, cleaner and greener place for us all to live.

Our Service and Support Fleet

As with most companies running a fleet of service and support vehicles is part of our day to day business, to help us help you, our valued clients and customers.   So when it came to choosing our vehicles we needed something that could handle the task well.   Not only did they have to take the knocks of day to day use as a service and support vehicle, ( remember folks company cars are always fastest in reverse gear and never require the use of a clutch ).   Any vehicles we choose had to be very economical to keep down any mileage charges or running costs, very reliable to save on down time and as environmentally friendly as possible to look after the planet.

To cover all these requirements we went to the local Mitsubishi agent, Watts Motors and chose a couple of very Eco-Friendly Mitsubishi Colt LS CVTs for around town and a Mitsubishi Cedia CVT Wagon with a little more space for the bigger and out of town jobs.

Martin, ( one of our directors ), likes to travel in style and has a Mitsubishi EVO IX for our frequent training trips to Auckland and Wellington.

Paul, ( director number two ), has finally been converted and has visited Watts Motors himself and recently picked up his brand spanking New Zealand New 2010 Mitsubishi EVO X.  Unfortunately like the Mazda 6 he previously had the EVO X is also a Flappy-Paddle Shifter version, but at least it's a start down the right track with him finally picking a descent brand.  Not to mention the little hidden feature called ' Super Sport Mode. '  That is wicked fun, ( under controlled road conditions of course ), to play with.

So as you can see we are helping to once again keep it local by supporting our local Mitsubishi dealers, Watts Motors.  Thanks guys for the great service.

Recycling

We are a local recycle center for Ricoh Toners.   So if you have any old toners or cartridges lying around feel free to drop them in to us or contact us and we can arrange for Lynn to come out and pick them up from you.

In fact since we sold and installed the first photocopier in Gisborne nearly thirty years ago, we have been actively collecting and disposing of any waste products, old consumables, parts and the old retired machines themselves and doing the right thing and disposing of them safely.   Helping to keep the city of Gisborne and New Zealand itself the beautiful places they are today.
Here are some of the things that happen to the photocopier parts we recycle:

• Paper - Waste paper is recycled and made into a variety of recycled paper or cardboard products.
• Cardboard - From packaging materials is recycled and used to produce recycled cardboard products.
• Aluminum - Is removed during dismantling and are sent to a recyclers for use in other aluminum products.
• PCBs - Are sent to recyclers, separated out into metals and other parts which are then re-used in other products.
• Steel - Is sent to recyclers and processed into other low-grade steel products.
• Polyethylene plastic bags, stretch wrap and bubble wrap for packaging is recycled in to industrial products.
• Toner Cartridges - Are dismantled and then the metal and plastic sorted for recycling.

The plastic from both cartridges and bottles is cleaned, granulated and exported to Australia.  The plastic is then manufactured into functional items that can be purchased such as park bench seats and tables, decking, speed humps, posts, rubbish bins and rulers.

Our major photocopier supplier Ricoh also has a ISO 14001 Environmental Certification and is well known world wide for their efforts in environmentally friendly practices including low em mission factories and huge recycling efforts.

Need to dispose of old equipment?   No problem just drop it off to us or contact us and we can arrange for one of the team to come out and collect it from you and dispose of it safely. 

RICOH, first in New Zealand

Ricoh New Zealand is the first office equipment and document solutions company in New Zealand to achieve carboNZero certification. carboNZero certification provides Ricoh with a unique point of difference in the industry and we decided to commit to this programme because it has a lot of credibility being a Crown Research Institute led initiative. We also see that it will further embed our culture of sustainability with our people and further enhance our commitment to the environmental sustainability of our operations.

The certification process has enabled us to formally demonstrate how we are reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to put in place a robust reduction plan to try and reduce emissions where possible through all practical methods available. We have offset our GHG emissions by purchasing credits from renewable energy sources approved by Landcare Research. carboNZero certification is just one more step along Ricoh’s environmental sustainability journey.

We were the first photocopier company in New Zealand to achieve ISO 14001 and the Environmental Choice accreditation and we are now pleased to announce that we are also the first in our industry to achieve carboNZero certification.