Our Environmental Commitment
Body repair is not a light-touch industry. Paint, solvents, energy, heat and waste are all part of the job. Trenhams holds ARIES accreditation — the Accident Repair Industry Environmental Standard — for our carbon reduction commitment.
Our Environmental Commitment
Body repair is not a light-touch industry. Paint, solvents, energy, heat and waste are all part of the job. Trenhams holds ARIES accreditation — the Accident Repair Industry Environmental Standard — for our carbon reduction commitment.
What ARIES Is
ARIES is the Accident Repair Industry Environmental Standard. It measures and commits a body shop to reducing its carbon footprint against criteria built for this trade — the energy a spray booth uses, the way paint and solvent waste is handled, the emissions a repair actually generates.
It has superseded PAS 2060, the general carbon neutrality specification we previously worked to. Holding ARIES means the commitment is measured against what this industry does, not against a generic framework.
Why We Bothered
Repairing a car is almost always better for the environment than replacing it. Every vehicle that goes back on the road properly repaired is one that hasn’t been written off, scrapped and rebuilt somewhere else. Doing the repair well is itself the environmental argument — a job that has to be done twice has double the footprint.
We’re a business in a coastal town where our customers, our staff and our children live. Reducing what we put into the air here isn’t an abstraction.
What It Means in Practice
Working to ARIES means measuring our energy use, our waste streams and our emissions, and committing to reduce them — then being assessed on whether we have.
It sits alongside BS 10125, accredited via RMI standards, which governs the quality and safety of the repair itself. One standard covers how well the car is repaired; the other covers what that repair costs the environment.
For Business Customers
If your organisation reports on the environmental performance of its supply chain, our ARIES accreditation is the reference point. We’re happy to provide details for your supplier records.
Common Questions
What is ARIES accreditation?
Has ARIES replaced PAS 2060?
Is repairing a car better for the environment than replacing it?
Ask Us About It
Call 01723 370207 or send us a message.
Unit 2 Mount View Business Park, Salisbury Street, Scarborough YO12 4EH · Monday to Friday, 8.30am–5pm
Ask Us About It
Call 01723 370207 or send us a message.
Unit 2 Mount View Business Park, Salisbury Street, Scarborough YO12 4EH · Monday to Friday, 8.30am–5pm