Environmental protection The client, and end consumer, should feel secure in the use of Nilorn’s whole product range. Sustainable products, for us, implies finding better materials. Once chosen and used, those materials should be kept in a recycling loop for as long as possible. For us it is important to work to be genuinely better all round, not only from the product perspective. We are committed to reducing the environmental impact of
understanding and improving the situation in Hong Kong
processes, choosing a supplier, planning the logistics etc. Our
sense that all of us as residents and business people in Hong
everything we do - designing a product, choosing production
with regard to plastic waste. The project was motivated by a
aim is to be a genuinely environmentally-friendly c ompany,
Kong can do more to keep our city greener. Simple statistics,
not just selling eco-friendlier products when we are asked
such as the 5.2 million plastic bottles discarded every day
for them. Both materials and mode of transportation are
by Hong Kongers (that is almost 2 billion bottles per year),
almost always decided by the client. Our role in guiding the
illustrate the seriousness of the situation. Nilorn East Asia
client in finding better alternatives is becoming more and
has signed on to this “No Plastic Waste Challenge” and also
more important and we see an increased interest from our
signed a new agreement for waste handling.
clients to use either certified materials such as FSC paper or made of recycled polyester, for example.
During 2016 we took a first step in collecting information and measuring our emissions. It gave us an initial baseline in our
In our updated Supplier Handbook there are explicit environmental
requirements,
including,
for
work to reduce our environmental impact. We i mplemented
example,
a new system for collecting non-financial information from
chemical handling, environmental management system,
internal and external sources in 2017, with the aim to get
energy and waste handling.
relevant, consistent and transparent reporting.
In 2017, the Sustainability Committee of the Swedish
Nilorn’s operations are located in several different countries
Chamber of Commerce started a project aimed at
and as there are differences in emissions between countries,
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