Company commitment

Staff individual responsibility

Improve the environmental awareness of our employees via individual and collective environmental initiatives such as:

• Sorting of waste in each office: separation of paper and plastic; organise the collection of selected waste.

• Box to collect used batteries,

• Receptacle to collect ink toners.

• Replacement of plastic cups with washable cups.

• PCs and all lights to be switched off every evening and whenever a room is not in use.

• Introduction of a policy for the responsible use of paper (in-house recovery and re-use of paper)

• Paper re-cycling

• Generalise the use of re-cycled paper (photocopies, shop drawings, hand wipes).

• Encourage use of the on premise restaurant (reduced travel)

• Development, organisation and implementation of car-sharing in the company: create a charter, in-house information.

• Invest in low-consumption light bulbs.

• Consideration of environmental related issues as applicable to work clothes.

• Encourage use of bicycles / trams thereby reducing carbon foot printing.

• Train travel thereby reducing carbon foot printing.

• Promote video conferences thereby reducing carbon foot printing.

• Use a GreenPrint printer to produce our brochures with vegetable-based inks. Preference for paper products from forests complying with sustainable management principles.

• Always choose digital media over hard copy for all transmissions.

• Reduce use of CDs and DVDs.

• Recover used media.

• Choose low-energy vending machines.

• In the office, exclusive use of organic, fair-trade tea and coffee.

• Use of the works committee to introduce green practices in the company.