Last updated: 21 September 2026
Event Equipment Hire Ltd designs, builds, maintains and hires out mobile grandstands, stages and LED screens, and delivers them across the UK on its own vehicles. This policy sets out how we manage the environmental impact of that work.
Our commitment
We are committed to protecting the environment, to preventing pollution, to complying with the environmental legislation and other obligations that apply to us, and to improving our environmental performance year on year. Responsibility for this policy sits with the directors, and it applies to everyone who works for us or on our behalf.
Where our impact sits
We are honest about what matters and what does not. For a business like ours the environmental impact is concentrated in three places: the fuel burned moving heavy equipment to site and back, the steel and aluminium that goes into building and repairing that equipment, and the waste generated at our works.
It is worth saying what our product already does. Our grandstands, stages and screens are manufactured once and then hired out repeatedly over a working life measured in decades. A trailer-mounted grandstand arrives complete on its own chassis and is deployed mechanically, which replaces a scaffold structure that would otherwise be trucked to site as components and built up and taken down again for every single event. That means fewer vehicle movements, far less material in circulation, and no build waste left on site.
Transport and fleet
- We plan deliveries and collections to consolidate loads, reduce empty running and keep mileage down.
- Our HGVs and tractor units are maintained to the manufacturer’s schedule, with tyre pressures and fuel use monitored, because a badly maintained vehicle burns more fuel.
- Drivers are expected to avoid unnecessary idling on site and at depot.
- Vehicle replacement decisions take emissions standards into account alongside cost and capability.
Manufacture, maintenance and materials
- We build for a long service life and repair rather than replace wherever it is safe and practical to do so.
- Steel and aluminium offcuts from our works are segregated and sent for recycling.
- We buy materials in quantities that match the job to avoid surplus, and we keep usable offcuts for future work.
- Paints, oils, lubricants and solvents are stored, used and disposed of in line with the supplier’s instructions and the applicable regulations.
Waste
We handle our waste in line with our duty of care under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Waste is segregated at source, passed only to authorised carriers and authorised sites, and covered by the correct documentation, which we retain. We apply the waste hierarchy: reduce first, then reuse, then recycle, with disposal as the last resort.
Energy and premises
- We review lighting, heating and compressed air at our sites and replace equipment with more efficient alternatives as it comes up for renewal.
- Plant and machinery is switched off when not in use.
- We monitor consumption at our premises so that we can see the effect of changes we make.
Customers, suppliers and sites
When we work on a customer’s site we follow the site’s environmental rules as well as our own, and we leave the ground as we found it. We take environmental performance into account when choosing suppliers and subcontractors, and we expect them to meet the same standards we set ourselves.
Review
This policy is reviewed at least once a year by the directors, and whenever there is a significant change to our operations or to the law. It is made available to anyone who asks for it.
If you have a question about this policy, or you think we have fallen short of it, please tell us through our contact page.