E N ER GY AND THE E NVIRONM E N T Gradually as St Peter Port-based businesses created increasing volumes of paper records and with insufficient – or expensive – office space to store it, off-site secure storage became a growing trend, and the company now runs eight purposebuilt storage warehouses over three sites and has an enviable client base of around 350 businesses. Nowadays, data security and identity theft are unfortunately part of everyday parlance. On a more positive note, recycling has become an integral element of all of our
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lives, both at home and in the workplace. Most of us like to think we are doing our bit towards environmental conservation. In many ways Archivist was ahead of the curve and introduced its shredding, recycling and scanning services before these activities ever became ‘the norm’.
Back in 1990, introducing a service to the island which at that point was very much a new concept, husband and wife team Trish and Bryan Smitheram launched Archivist with one client and one storage unit.
An incident some 15/20 years ago at Mont Cuet landfill, when unsecured refuse bags tore open releasing banking records and statements to the elements, undoubtedly acted as a catalyst to companies becoming more aware of
the need to deal with sensitive data appropriately. And of course many businesses are keen to gain their green credentials and recycling is an obvious factor in achieving those. Environmental awareness is very much part of the ethos of the Archivist operation and the company is a holder of the Keep Guernsey Green Award. Trish and Bryan grow their own produce at home, keep chickens and recycle everything they can. At work, signs are visible around the office reminding staff to turn off lights, recycle packaging and minimise waste. It has been estimated that the equivalent of 12,240 trees each year are saved through Archivist’s recycling activities, a number based on the UK Forestry’s planting guidelines - that would fill around nine football pitches. And where does it all go? Documents are shredded (to military specification) and then eventually become tissue paper. So the next time you reach for the Kleenex give Archivist a thought.
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