AtoZ Supplies is part of the Education Services division of Findel plc, a quoted UK company with an annual turnover in excess of £330 million. For over 40 years, Findel has been a leader in Educational supplies to the majority of the UK's schools as well as a renowned provider of consumer Home Shopping through mail order catalogues.  Findel Services also provides online and offline logistics and e-fulfilment services to third parties.

AtoZ Supplies has a similarly proud pedigree having been originally formed as a separate Essex County Department in 1933.

Over the years, AtoZ Supplies has been at the forefront of educational provision. A proactive and customer-focused approach has always been evident, with the AtoZ Supplies name and familiar "Apple-Z" logo having been adopted in January 1989. Quality has been another consistent value, with initial achievement of the ISO 9002 quality standard by AtoZ Supplies in 1994 and ISO14001 in September 2004.

The organisation was transferred into the private sector on July 7, 2000, when it was sold to the Accord plc Group. This provided the opportunity to expand business beyond its public sector roots and outside the Essex county borders.  This renewed focus also enabled AtoZ Supplies to build a reputation for online procurement services. For example, the company is a key partner in the enable e-government initiative working with Warrington, Macclesfield and Vale Royal local authorities.

The purchase in 2003 by Findel plc, recognises the strengths of AtoZ Supplies in offering "everything you could want. and more"

Environment

CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT...REDUCING...RE-USING...RECYCLING
Findel Education is committed to conserving the quality of the environment for its customers, employees and the general community - and to the continual improvement of its environmental performance.

Our initiatives include:

The careful planning of deliveries to reduce delivery fleet fuel consumption and exhaust emissions
The specific use of low sulphur fuel for the delivery fleet
Recycling of waste paper, card and printer cartridges
Promotion of products that minimise environmental effects during production, use and disposal
The selection of suppliers who have committed themselves to sound environmental strategies

The Challenge
On average, each household in the UK produces about 1 tonne of rubbish each year – totalling some 27 million tonnes nationwide. (Packaging alone comprises a quarter of all the rubbish placed in the bins). Over 80% of household waste can be recycled, reused or composted, but currently only around 27% is, with the rest either being incinerated or landfilled! (This puts us a long way behind many of our European neighbours who recycle well over 50% of their domestic waste). Europe has set UK industry the target of recovering 60% of all its packaging waste (approx. 5.5 million tonnes) by 2008. Clearly we all have an important role to play in reducing waste.

What You Can Do
Wherever possible, try to reduce the amount of rubbish created. The most efficient form of recycling is simply to re-use packaging material such as cartons, boxes, bubble-wrap and other protective packaging. Where that isn’t feasible, then plan to recycle your waste materials. This will call for the separation of waste into basic materials e.g. paper, card, glass, cans. Many local authorities now arrange kerbside collections for card and paper and provide community recycling banks for glass and steel/aluminium cans. There are now over 20,000 bottle bank sites in the UK resulting in some 425,000 tonnes of glass being recycled annually. (Contact your local authority’s recycling officer for details of local recycling services).

Useful Websites
www.recycle-more.co.uk
www.environment-agency.gov.uk

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A division of Findel Education Ltd.
Registered in England & Wales Number: 1135827.
Registered Office: Burley House, Bradford Road, Burley-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, LS29 7DZ.