MTS in the Community
MTS believes strongly that a successful business needs to support the community in which it operates. As well as its environmental actions, MTS is very active in supporting a range of community activities, especially those that focus on improving the lives of young people.
The Manly Bombers. A Junior Australian Rules Football Club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Established in 2001, registrations topped 350 children in 2009 to make the Bombers the third largest club in Greater Sydney. Encouraging children to participate in physical activity, develop team work and skills but above all have fun, MTS is proud to have been sponsoring the Bombers since 2002.
MTS is the proud sponsor of the Woden Valley Soccer Club Girls Under 13 Division 1 team. During the 2009 season, the girls performed very well coming second in the competition and competing in the Kanga Cup in July.
Canberra Special Children’s Christmas Party. The aim of the Special Children’s Christmas Party is to provide in excess of 1,600 children with a day they will never forget. The children may be terminally ill, intellectually impaired or physically impaired. Children arrive from all over the Canberra region to attend the event, normally scheduled for the start of December each year. MTS has been a major sponsor of this event for several years.
Sustainability and MTS
MTS is committed to environmental best practice, waste avoidance, reuse and recycling practices and continually monitors and reviews it practices to ensure continuous improvement.
MTS aims to reduce the consumption of materials and energy, by printing course material double sided and only printing enough material for our short term needs. We encourage the re-use of materials wherever possible by using recycled paper in office facsimile machines, and recycled boxes and packaging materials for the distribution of course material. MTS disposes of toner cartridges, waste paper and other office consumables through local council recycling programs or contractors. MTS donates outdated office equipment to local schools and community groups wherever possible.
We have consultants located all around Australia and wherever possible have them deliver training in the home locality to minimise the requirement for travel, thereby reducing the effects of emissions on the environment.
We routinely use paper with recycled content, thereby reducing the consumption of natural resources, and the ingredients required in manufacture.
We look for innovative ways to reduce the amount of paper required for delivery of each program, e.g. access to on-line resources instead of paper handouts.
Unless specified to the contrary by the client, participant materials are comb-bound, thereby reducing the amount of plastic folders used (reducing the effects of production and subsequent disposal).
We use environmentally friendly products in the office and in our supplies wherever possible, e.g. cleaning materials.
Wherever feasible, we seek to reduce energy consumption by switching off unnecessary lights and devices, and utilise the power save feature on printers and other office machines.
We recycle glass, aluminium, paper, plastics to reduce the extent of consumption of resources.
We uphold our clients’ workplace practices relating to re-use, recycling, waste disposal, and all other environmental-related issues as they relate to or have impact on our services.
