Environmental

Reducing our impact on the environment.

SCC is committed to mitigating our impact on the environment. We have set ourselves targets and committed to be Carbon Net Zero by 2050 and support the UN Race to Zero campaign.
Circular economy Resource conservation is one the biggest challenges we all face. To combat this, we have adopted and implemented a circular economy approach which incorporates three principles; reduce, reuse, and recycle.

ReduceWe are constantly seeking ways to reduce our resource consumption and have adopted smart metering and switching technologies to remove dormant and zombie consumption of power.

The introduction of water metering, flow control and water catchment has reduced our domestic water consumption. We do not use water in the operation of our business.

As part of our investment in solar generation and electric vehicle fleet transformation, we are implementing energy storage technologies to harvest surplus power from our own generation activities.

This year, we have been adapting our working practices to account for the UK “Plastic Tax” by removing tonnes of plastic packaging and wrapping from our end-to-end supply chain. Furthermore, we are removing single use plastics from our business.

ReuseTo support our home user collection customers, we have implemented a system whereby we only use recycled laptops sleeves in our plastic tote boxes. By using these new sleeves, we reuse and rotate them and minimise the amount of waste generated.

RecycleWe are a zero waste to landfill business and ISO 14001 accredited. Our in-house recycling facility provides a range of services for ourselves and our customers and generates over 20 recycling waste streams.

Reducing our emissions During the year, we committed to setting science-based emission reduction targets that will be approved by Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and align to the categories covered under PPN06/21. Our progress is reported in our carbon reduction plan.Across our business, we use 100% renewable electricity contracts for all our office locations. In the instances where we lease a location, we are proactively engaging with proprietors and encouraging them to move to renewable electricity contracts. Furthermore, we are increasing the amount of hybrid or fully electric vehicles available within our car fleet. To power our fleet, we generate electricity onsite from our solar generation scheme or sourced from renewable providers to the grid. We have also set ourselves a target of having a fully electric vehicle fleet by the end of 2023.Working with our logistics and distribution suppliers, we also require our suppliers to meet our electric vehicle fleet quotes to retain or bid for new SCC business.

Carbon footprint summary	FY20	FY21	FY22
Emissions from combustion of gas tCO2e (Scope 1)	292.26	250.30	230.05
Emissions from combustion of fuel for transport purposes (Scope 1)	1581.11	944.63	131.74
Emissions from business travel in rental cars or employee owned vehicles where company is responsible for purchasing the fuel (Scope 3)	686.72	110.09	143.69
Emissions from purchased electricity (Scope 2, location-based)	6128.46	5516.64	4615.92
Emissions from purchased electricity (Scope 2, market-based factor)	114.99	93.13	68.86
Emissions from other activities which the company own or control including operation of facilities (Scope 1)	837.38	502.84	821.67
Emissions from generation of electricity that is consumed in a transmission and distribution system for which the company does not own or control (Scope 3) / tCO2e	520.30	474.43	154.22
Emissions from employee business travel which the company does not own or control and where not responsible for purchasing the fuel (Scope 3) / tCO2e	681.98	15.76	97.31
Total gross Scope 1, Scope 2 [location] & Scope 3 emissions / tCO2e	12805.0	8604.75	8668.94
Total gross Scope 1, Scope 2 [market] & Scope 3 emissions / tCO2e	5870.17	3503.65	3559.37

Reporting and performance The information displayed on the following pages demonstrates our year on year performance in recycling, reusing and refurbishing a range of equipment. The miscellaneous (Misc) category refers to items such as, but not limited to disk drives, hard drives, mobile phones, modems, cache memory, hubs and switches, input accessories, storage accessories, phones and bridges and routers.Waste The table below demonstrates the amount of waste generated from our office locations and sent for incineration.

Reporting year	Target (T)	Actual (T)
FY20	Baseline year	270
FY21	257	185
FY22	243	181

Recycling Our in-house recycling facility provides a range of services to ourselves and our customers.

Reporting year	Units processed	Monthly average
FY20	224,816	18,734
FY21	132,458	11,038
FY22	202,363	16,864

Data erasureThe table below provides information on the number of units fully data erased and subsequently refurbished and redeployed or sold on behalf of our customers.

Reporting year	Number of units
FY20	36,410
FY21	36,766
FY22	57,022

IT equipment refurbished and redeployed back to our customers

	FY20		FY21		FY22
Category	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)
Desktops	4,049	36441	3,156	28404	3,392	30528
Laptops	4,750	7125	5,486	8229	7,475	11213
Misc	6,451	5806	5,493	4944	7,509	6758
Monitors	5,031	85527	4,619	78523	5,151	87567
Printers	693	6584	1,058	10051	1,084	10298
Servers	182	3095	55	935	74	1258
Total	21,156	144576.4	19,867	131085.7	24,685	147621.6

IT equipment sold back out into the market on behalf of our customers

	FY20		FY21		FY22
Category	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)
Desktops	15,734	141606	10,360	93240	19,609	176481
Laptops	12,718	19077	10,092	15138	19,397	29096
Misc	5,288	4759	5,800	5220	3,321	2989
Monitors	27,878	473926	8,093	137581	9,817	166889
Printers	28	266	67	637	323	3069
Servers	495	8415	364	6188	536	9112
Total	62,141	648049.2	34,776	258003.5	53,003	387634.9

IT equipment re-used via non-remarketing channels

	FY20		FY21		FY22
Category	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)
Desktops	810	7290	343	3087	176	1584
Laptops	735	1103	2,352	3528	7,910	11865
Misc	4,486	4037	2,807	2526	4,552	4097
Monitors	768	13056	68	1156	207	3519
Printers	288	2736	82	779	110	1045
Servers	151	2567	131	2227	193	3281
Total	7,238	30788.9	5,783	13303.3	13,148	25390.8

IT equipment securely and environmentally recycled

	FY20		FY21		FY22
Category	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)
Desktops	39,398	354582	13,081	117729	16,849	151641
Laptops	12,274	18411	12,570	18855	13,782	20673
Misc	57,120	51408	30,155	27140	58,307	52476
Monitors	17,010	289170	12,434	211378	15,601	265217
Printers	5,841	55490	1,861	17680	4,626	43947
Servers	2,638	44846	1,929	32793	2,362	40154
Total	134,281	813906.5	72,030	425574	111,527	574108.3

Combined

	FY20		FY21		FY22
Category	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)	Quantity	Weight (Kgs)
Desktops	20,593	185337	13,859	124731	23,177	208593
Laptops	18,203	27305	17,930	26895	34,782	52173
Misc	16,225	14603	14,100	12690	15,382	13844
Monitors	33,677	572509	12,780	217260	15,175	257975
Printers	1,009	9586	1,207	11467	1,517	14412
Servers	828	14076	550	9350	803	13651
Total	90,535	823414.5	60,426	402392.5	90,836	560647.3