Our Environment

We recognize that caring for the environment is everyone’s responsibility and so we aim to make it easy for everyone in the business to ‘do their bit’ in whatever way they can. Initiatives range from simple everyday things such as encouraging energy efficiency and recycling at work to more long term commitments such as protecting and caring for our land and livestock.

What do we do?

• At our Head Office in Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, we recycle as much as possible including paper, ink cartridges, bottle tops, batteries, cans and even our lunchtime leftovers. Wherever possible we try to use stationery from sustainable sources and aim to work with local suppliers where practical.
• Our motor dealerships ensure as many waste materials as possible are recycled e.g. all waste oils are taken by a registered waste disposal transfer company and delivered to a steel works company in the North of England where they are used to fuel the steel furnaces. Batteries are transferred to an alloy company where the parts are all recycled.
• In our automotive body shops we only use water based paints through the paint shop and try wherever possible to use environmentally friendly products i.e. sealers  polishes masking tape  and covers.
• Bedfordia Farms are heavily involved in DEFRA’s Countryside Stewardship Scheme to enhance and conserve English landscapes, their wildlife and history, and to help the local community to enjoy them. As part of this scheme we have improved the habitat for wildlife by establishing grass strips without access that can buffer hedges and watercourses to provide refuges for birds and small mammals.
• Bedfordia produces 23,000 pigs per year which are all bred and reared to strict welfare standards independently audited and marketed under the Assured British Pigs (ABP) banner.
• All oil fired boilers in Bedfordia’s properties are serviced annually to ensure efficient use of oil and a limit to the amount of harmful gases (such as carbon dioxide) which could be released to the atmosphere.  All our residential properties are insulated and double glazed wherever possible to make them more energy efficient.
• BiogenGreenfinch recycles waste food sent to us by food manufacturers, retailers and local authorities to create renewable energy and a valuable bio-fertiliser for use on arable land. When food waste is combined with animal slurry as part of the process this also provides an environmentally beneficial way of disposing of animal waste.  By means of this innovative process we help other organizations meet their own corporate and social responsibility obligations.