For another consecutive year, Shields has continued to improve its environmental performance in key areas as verified by EMAS (the Eco Management and Audit Scheme).

The aim of EMAS registration is to recognise and reward organisations that go beyond minimum legal compliance and continuously improve their environmental performance. In addition, it is a requirement of the scheme that participating organisations regularly produce a public environmental statement that reports on their environmental performance. It is this voluntary publication of environmental information, whose accuracy and reliability has been independently checked by an environmental verifier, that gives EMAS and those organisations that participate enhanced credibility and recognition.

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