ARV are committed to supplying customers with fair, ethical and environmentally sound vending solutions. As a vending solutions supplier, we endeavour to ensure that every part of our business takes into consideration the fragility of the environment, the people that supply the products and your requirement to meet low carbon emissions and recycling objectives.

Fairtrade Vending Ingredients
We are committed to providing you with peace of mind and therefore offer you the option of using Fairtrade tea, coffee, chocolate, snacks and beverages. Many of our customers prefer these fairtrade and ethical products. This all helps the farmers and the environment.

To find more about Fairtrade click here www.fairtrade.org.uk

Disposable Vending Items
The packaging and containers we use are non toxic. Where possible we promote the use of bio degradable cups ensuring that they do not contribute to the build-up in landfill.

Our Vending Service Vehicles
Our delivery vehicles are all brand new, small and efficient, we are now endeavouring to use low carbon emission gas for their power. Our delivery schedules are well managed to ensure that the routing does not cause undue mileage to be covered. We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint.

Low Carbon Footprint Vending Machines
The vending machines we supply are of the highest efficiency, using low energy lighting, flash/direct cooling technology, in-built heating with energy management and 'end of life' machine recycling.

These characteristics all combine to provide you with high quality vending equipment that provides long operational life and environments soundness.

Healthy Vending Options
ARV encourage workplace wellness and offer you a variety of high quality snacks and beverages, promoting healthier product options.

Recycling of Vending Cups
The Save a Cup scheme was established by the vending, food service and plastics industries to collect the millions of hard-wall polystyrene cups used in the UK every week.

The scheme is administered by the Save a Cup Recycling Company. With more than a billion cups collected so far for recycling, the company's objective is to increase the number of cups collected in line with Government targets for recycling packaging waste.

W.E.E.E. Directive
As part of our environmental strategy, ARV are fully committed to comply with the W.E.E.E. regulations (Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Regulations)that came into effect on July1 2007.

WEEE is the term applied to all electronic and electrical equipment (TVs, PCs, white goods and vending machines) when it is to be disposed of at the end of its life.

ARV has signed up with an independent collective scheme to dispose of vending equipment which has come to the end of its life cycle.

All machines supplied by ARV will be collected and returned to the Team Valley depot for stripping of parts for re-use, before being sent for disposal by our contractor.

The targets for ARV are to re-cycle 90% of all machine parts with 10% being sent for waste.