Austar United

AUSTAR is committed to sustainability and environmental responsibility, and as such we have established a 14 member cross-departmental taskforce to develop and implement business and cultural initiatives in order to deliver environmental benefits.

While AUSTAR does not have a high record of emissions, we recognise that we can all benefit from reducing our waste and encouraging efficiency. Success can only come from the wider adoption of behaviours by our employees, so a key aspect of our program is devoted to education and encouragement.

In 2008 we implemented a number of initiatives: further exploring ways of reducing our electricity and water usage; reducing travel between offices and promoting teleconferencing; rolling out e-communications, with billing, customer communications, shareholder information, archiving and our internal publications; defaulting to double sided printing; working with our third-party suppliers to encourage similar behaviours; and implementing new, energy efficient server hardware.

AUSTAR employees have positively embraced these initiatives and we’ll continue to look to ways to improve our environmental impact in 2009.