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Union Wastebasket is confirmed like environmental adviser
(18-01-2010)

It is more than demonstrated than the Corporative Social Responsibility (RSC) is a real and increasing necessity, and that it has not been a fleeting fashion. The public administrations and the companies every time are more it jeopardize with the impact that its activity has on the environment. Also the society, through ONG's, mass media, etc., presses so that it takes place and it is consumed with ecological criteria. For this reason, they develop productive, social programs and of communication directed toward diminishing the ecological impact of its activity.

Before these tendencies and realities, the manufacturers of paper, the distributers, the printers and the manipulators of paper, are being first in giving to example, promoting strategies, policies and activities adapted to the new social demands.

In this sense and from the point of view of the paper distributers, Union Wastebasket, through the different actions who is undertaking in environmental matter, wants to change the public perception of which the paper is harmful for the environment, since by each tree that is cut they plant three. This allows a forest repopulation that increases to the storage and the elimination of carbon dioxide of the atmosphere.

Also, the paper consumption is being promoted recycling, in whose production less natural resources are used. Before this situation, the paper manufacturers are developing to paper marks recycling with one more a smoother texture and a whiter tone. Back they have been the papers grayish recyclings and with specks. In any case, he still exists an education work, and is necessary to bring back to consciousness to the people so that they recycle the paper and does not finish in the garbage dumps. These actions are translated, more and more, in a paper consumption whose fibers come from forests managed with sustainability criteria and which, as well, they fulfill the requirements of the chain of safekeeping in his known schemes more: the FSC and the PEFC.

According to Alexander Branches, chief of a main directorate of Union Wastebasket “we must improve our proposals of value for the final clients, offering solutions in terms of finished product that guarantee the minimum environmental impact, that is respectful and that helps with their needs and responsibilities them before the community. In this line in Union Wastebasket, besides the policies to have best product ranges made with sustainable criteria, we are developing political active of social responsibility. Fruit of these policies we have developed the Declaration of Environmental Policy of of the company and the Environmental Decalog of Union Wastebasket”.

This decalog is a clear bet by the ecological excellence on the part of Union Wastebasket, with the aim of assuming a commitment that proposes:

1. - To separate the residues for its recycling: to toner, paper, batteries,…
2. - To extinguish the lights if one is going away to be outside the office more than five minutes and not to ignite them if they are not essential
3. - To reduce to the use of the heating and the conditioned air. Not to pass heat in winter, nor cold in summer.
4. - To activate the option of saving of the computer so that by” after 15 minutes of inactivity enters “stand.
5. - To extinguish to the printer and the photocopier when its use in the next hour is not anticipated.
6. - To use incandescent fluorescent light bulbs or of low consumption instead of the traditional ones.
7. - Not to squander fuel in the use of the automobile. Not to worry the acceleration and to lead more slowly. It uses the public transport or to walk.
8. - To take care of the nature. Not to leave residues, mainly those that are not degraded, like plastics or the butts.
9. - To animate to the people of its surroundings so that they have a responsible environmental behavior.
10. - To follow these habits in its house and its personal life.

From Union Wastebasket it is wanted to contribute to create a world better. “We think that he is ours to have to establish political that helps to take care of the surroundings of sustainable way, and we want therefore to acquire the commitment publicly to act of coherent way with this objective”, it concludes Alexander Branches.