Staff individual responsability

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.