I know a green company when I see one
Updated: 2008-02-26 07:14
(HK Edition)
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Policy: Dedication to support global sustainability as a socially responsible institution. There are concrete measures to achieve this layout and they are clearly publicized.
Planning & communicating: Matters such as division of labor, coordination, reporting and experience sharing are carefully and realistically set out.
Energy consumption: Active measures to save and audit.
Water consumption: Active measures to save and audit.
Material consumption: Minimize use of wasteful (e.g. non-reusable and non-renewable), polluting (e.g. toxic chemicals or noise generating), and inhuman (e.g. endangering the livelihood of other peoples and animals) raw materials and machineries.
Waste: Maximum effort to reuse, recycle and dispose of all kinds of waste in a responsible manner.
Purchasing: A clear and enforced policy to make sure that no effort is spared to buy green products, including raw materials, stationeries and equipment.
Transport: all company cars are ecologically sound in terms of choice, use and maintenance. Staff members are ecologically conscious in their choice of airline companies, etc.
Health: Definite and effective policies to protect the holistic wellbeing of the staff (e.g. radiation, chemical and noise pollution levels are routinely checked and substantive maternity leaves are offered to both sexes).
MPF: Savings are invested in green funds.
Traning: A handsome dose of effective and in-depth education programs to enhance the staff's green consciousness and to develop green lifestyles (e.g. plots in organic farms are offered to employees to spend their weekends with families working on the soil).
Eco-auditing: Carried out in a sound and serious manner.
Client liasion: Definite and effective measures to encourage and facilitate the clients to behave green (e.g. cash incentives for refilling and recycling, green messages in newsletters).
Sponsorship: Generous, altruistic and no-string-attached donations to green groups and green projects.
(HK Edition 02/26/2008 page4)