At Straight, we began to calculate our carbon footprint quite early on, but our impact was ridiculously small because all the manufacturing activity was technically someone else's problem. We felt that the right step was to encourage all our key suppliers to calculate their impact on our behalf and then to work to reduce this. As it happens, it was the acquisition of a wheeled bin business that proved to be the catalyst for change. Straight had been involved in the wheeled bin market since the early 1990s as a distributor for the Dutch Hartman Group. And in 2003, the Group began representing Helesi, a Greek wheeled bin producer with a factory in Bradford.
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