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Where BCT goes, Clean Air Flows
Welcome to BCT’s Environmental Policy with Shaun Hogan
The philosophy of breathing clean air and creating a better, healthier natural environment has quickly become an intrinsic part of who BCT are as a rapidly growing business in South-East Queensland and Northern NSW.
Managing director of BCT, Shaun Hogan, being inspired to step up and give back to the community, realised that the most powerful thing he could do would be to improve the environment to heal the Earth from the impacts of his business on the natural world.
Shaun explains, “I decided that if I was going to contribute to a cleaner environment, I wanted it to be as effective as possible – by offsetting not just some of the carbon emissions created by our vehicles, but all of it.”
BCT is a direct door to door transportation service that transfers thousands of satisfied customers every month, servicing all areas from Byron Bay in Northern NSW through to Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, including all Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast suburbs.
Shaun started researching environmentally minded organisations in South East Queensland, and logged onto Greenfleet www.greenfleet.com.au. Shaun contacted Greenfleet shortly after and set a powerful movement into action for BCT and the environment.
Through their contribution to Greenfleet, BCT are now planting three times as many trees as they need to in order to offset all of the carbon emissions being generated through their vehicles – which means hundreds of trees per month, and thousands of trees per year, every year.
BCT’s influence spreads wider than just their own vehicles and daily operations – BCT plant enough trees every month to aid in cleaning up the emissions being created through other businesses in the transport industry in and around SE Queensland and Northern NSW– driving towards a cleaner future.
With BCT’s ever expanding network and fleet of luxurious cars, they are helping to quickly transform our natural world and create cleaner, fresher air for years into the future.
When asked about his vision for BCT Green, Shaun explains, “My mission is to champion this project of offsetting carbon emissions not only with BCT, but in the industry of customer transfers. Through this movement with BCT, I am spreading the message of how easy it is to achieve this level of influence within the business community being developed.”
To offset your business today, contact Shaun Hogan now on Shaun@bct-transfers.com for more details/information.
Article written by Emily Gowor
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Photo: Healesville Sanctuary
Photo: Healesville Sanctuary
Photo: Healesville Sanctuary
Photo: Liam Lynch
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Greenfleet Australia recognises that the success of our organisation and of the services
we manage for our subscribers depends on the maintenance and enhancement of the
environmental, social and economic values of the land and the communities we work with.
These values include community education and biodiversity, which are fundamental components
of Greenfleet’s program.
Our core business is neutralising the impact of carbon emissions. This is achieved through:
• EDUCATION: Educating the community about issues of transport and the environment;
• TREE PLANTING: Delivering native tree planting programs that sequester carbon dioxide
emissions from motor vehicles, household/office energy usage and from air travel;
• BEST PRACTICE: Applying best practice in plant husbandry, technologies and carbon accounting
practices while addressing issues of salinity, habitat, erosion and general land degradation;
• SHOWCASING AND PROMOTING: Showcasing and promoting fuel-efficient technologies and
cleaner fuels with the aim to fast-track their uptake in the marketplace; and
• BEING COST-EFFECTIVE: Adopting cost-effective marketing and business management practices.
Our policy is to create positive and measurable outcomes for the environment by reducing the
impact of carbon emissions through the establishment and maintenance of native species
ecosystems.
Biodiversity
Biodiversity can be defined as the variety of
life in all its forms, levels and combinations
including ecosystem diversity, species
diversity and genetic diversity. Enhancing and
maintaining biodiversity is a key component
of Greenfleet’s program.
To achieve this, the strategies being implemented
as part of our environmental policy are:
• Our site selection focuses on high-priority
areas that are in need of revegetation,
creating complex systems that will provide
habitat for native species and help reverse
land degradation and salinity.
• We establish a mix of plant species that
were thought to exist at the site prior to
white settlement.
• We include species that grow to a height of
two metres or taller at maturity in a forest
or woodland ecosystem in line with the
Australian National Carbon Accounting
System guideline’s definition of a forest
sink, developed by the Australian
Greenhouse Office.
• We seek and apply the advice of local
revegetation professionals, and utilise
resources such as revegetation guides
and Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC)
information to develop and reference
appropriate species lists. |
• We ensure seedlings are grown from
indigenous seed of known provenance
collected as close as possible to the site
by liaising with local seed collectors, seed
banks and nurseries.
• We seek and apply the opinion and advice
of local revegetation professionals and the
involvement of local communities to design
and source appropriate vegetation mixes.
• We encourage and support the efforts of
our suppliers and contractors to follow
best practice seed collection and nursery
techniques such as those prescribed by
Flora Bank www.florabank.org.au
• We actively consult with community and
agencies to integrate plantings, to ensure
monitoring of sites and support
maintenance.
• Inspections and survival surveys are
regularly undertaken and where losses have
occurred we assess the need for replanting.
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Greenfleet Australia is a not for profit organisation.
Website: www.greenfleet.com.au Phone: 1800 032 999 |
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