Our responsibility to protect the environment
MERC Property continuously work with our customers and suppliers to minimise our greenhouse footprint. The current solutions we have implemented are:
- Purchase of carbon credits for any staff flights
- Utilisation of secure recycling of documentation
- Recycle toners
- Recycle kitchen rubbish, eg. bottles, cardboard, etc.
- Internal blinds on all windows to reduce energy use on air conditioning
- Pays are transferred electronically, wth the provision of electronic payslips
- Centralised printers with built in scanning functionality, allowing the electronic recording of paperwork
- Cessation of the use of hard copy files for client properties, utilising MERCStream© as the repository for all email, documentation, record of telephone conversations et al
- Utilisation of interfaces for agents, clients and valuers to directly upload reports, photographs and invoices, directly into the system
- MERC Property collect postage stamps from all incoming mail and forward them to a local church. These stamps are collateral in India and have contributed to the building of a hospital and school thus far.
- All obsolete hardware is either sold through an authorised dealer, or donated to charity; however any hard drives with data are extracted and destroyed prior to release
- MERC Property were able to implement the new legislative requirements for Sustainability Declarations in Queensland at the end of 2009 and provide a process for management of such to support our clients
MERC Property will continue to review and update the policy, along with our adherence to all our Corporate Governance compliance requirements.
MERC Property recognises the responsibility
to protect the environment both as a Corporate Citizen and also as a commitment to the interests of our clients