Translations

Caisse d'Epargne Nord France Europe (CENFE) adopts an action plan to limit and recycle its waste

4. Environment

Waste management

Sector Finance / Bank / Insurance

Year 2012

Country France

Transmitter

Context

The nature of modern banking activities has led the Caisse d'Epargne Nord France Europe (CENFE) to become a major consumer of paper, computer hardware and other consumables.

Objectives

Today's key challenges are twofold: prior to use, limit as much as possible reliance on such consumables; then following use, recycle all of the waste generated.

APPROACH

Regarding the first challenge CENFE has introduced the following actions in-house:

- Two-sided paper printing as a default configuration;

- Reduction in the number of printers in use, acquisition of a set of shared / networked multifunction printers;

- Awareness-building among personnel on reducing their consumption of paper and waste;

- Partnership with electronic device recycling associations (cell phones, computers, etc.);

- Printing of publications and business cards on recycled paper or paper certified as sustainable.

Moreover, CENFE continues to apply an environmentally-friendly waste treatment policy that pertains mainly to the collection and recycling of consumables (paper, ink cartridges, toner, etc.). As an example:

- Implementation of a selective sorting procedure;

- Collection of computer wastes performed by the ESAT workforce integration agency.