Our sustainability strategy

A sustainability culture

Our employees are our most important ambassadors. That’s why we also think it’s important to develop a culture of sustainability within What’s Cooking? We put out a call internally for ESG ambassadors, and a group of twenty-five enthusiasts signed up. Every month they meet with the Sustainability Manager. They brainstorm new ways to ignite sustainability culture, and highlight existing initiatives so that other sites can learn from them.

Many initiatives have already taken place at the various sites.

Inspired by World Cleanup Day (Sept. 17), What’s Cooking? organized a cleanup week at its various locations from Sept. 12 to 16. World Cleanup Day brings together millions of volunteers, governments and organizations from 191 countries to tackle the global waste problem and build a better sustainable world.

We also held an Energy Efficiency Week. The heating was turned down a few degrees in all of our offices and a handful of initiatives were organized across the branches: a fat sweater contest, a sports session to warm up during the lunch break and a webinar full of tips to save energy at work and at home.

More fun sustainability initiatives and events will follow in 2023!

Creating awareness is important and can sometimes start very small. We distributed stickers with our ESG slogan “YES WE CARE” throughout all What’s Cooking locations so that our employees could take control. For example, by putting such a sticker on a light switch, they urge others to turn off the light when no one is in the room.

To make sustainability top of mind within our organization, we launched the Sustainability Initiative of the Quarter. Every four months, the colleague with the most outstanding sustainability initiative (social or environmental) is awarded a prize and an honorable mention in the ESG newsletter.

Lore Muylle Group Sustainability Manager

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