Reaching a difficult crossroad regarding the planet’s environmental challenges, it is crystal clear that our planet is at stake. We take steps to conserve natural resources by mitigating the Group’s environmental footprint to contribute to change. This is a pivotal part of our responsibility to the world, and we embrace it by caring and enhancing sustainable production throughout our operational journey.
In the area of production, adopting sustainable development practices is a key component of our strategy within the supply chain. The efficient use of energy and natural resources, the use of renewable energy resources, the mitigation of waste production and their rational management, the manufacturing of more environmentally friendly products have been and still remain our commitments vis-à-vis the environmental challenges.
As far as responsible consumption is concerned, we are committed in promoting a more sustainable way of life to our consumers by supporting an ecological perspective in the usage of our products, while embracing recycling, responsible use of our products with respect to the environment, proper waste segregation and reusage of their packaging.
Our commitments:
The new garbage bags will be characterized by:
1. There is a “Solar system”- Water Cooling system for air conditioning utilizing solar power: We use 1340 solar collectors and two sunlight absorption chillers covering part of the plant’s needs in cooling power.
2. Natural Gas has fully replaced oil; as a result, gas emissions are reduced, operation is cleaner and the energy cost was brought down.
3. Installation of a photovoltaic system will cover a significant part of the energy needs.
Particularly in Greece, our financial contributions to the Hellenic Recovery Recycling Corporation, support the effort to improve the recycling infrastructure in Greece.
The total amount of the company's financial contributions corresponds to the financing of the purchase of 5,287 blue recycling bins or 10 recycling vehicles.
The Group’s headquarters and the production facility at Ιnofyta, with respect to the energy management apply the International Standard ISO 50001, which is certified by the certification body TUV HELLAS.