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| 31/10/2017 |
| Operators encourage employees to go green |
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An environmental initiative between four global port operators has encouraged 7,500 port employees to go green.
This is the fourth year in a row that DP World, Hutchison Ports, PSA International, Port of Rotterdam Authority and Shanghai International Port Group, have completed a week-long global “Go Green” initiative across their international port and facility networks.
“This environmental initiative shows how industry partnerships can create more impact. As global economies develop it is extremely important that we use natural resources wisely and we work hard to leave a legacy wherever we operate,” said DP World Group Chairman and CEO. Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem.
Climate Mates
Across its portfolio of 78 terminals in 40 countries, DP World encouraged its employees and local communities to become “Climate Mates”.
During the month-long campaign in September, each of DP World’s business units chose a range of activities, including the increased use of recycled paper, switching to paperless billing and transactions, planting trees and using glass instead of plastic bottles to reduce their negative impact on deforestation and carbon emissions.
Green efforts
Over 500 Hutchison Ports employees engaged in an agenda of green races, climate-change resilience-building exercises and mass tree plantings – from mangroves to fruit trees. Efforts were made to choose activities that would benefit more than one environmental cause.
A total of 500 trees will be planted in West China’s Ningxia region in the name of the Shanghai terminals to both fight desertification and remove CO2 from the air.
Conservation work
The Port of Rotterdam Authority organised an activity involving the city's major container terminal operators and the bureau Stadsnatuur Rotterdam, an organisation that collects information on flora and fauna in the area and provides conservation advice.
Participants planted 750 sea buckthorn bushes on nearby sand dunes. The idea was to build coastal and port resilience by working with nature instead of against it. The shrubs will also help protect biodiversity by keeping people out of an adjacent bird sanctuary.
Raising awareness
Under the banner of “Go Green”, 3,950 people at PSA ports around the world engaged in a diverse range of activities aimed at raising awareness of environmental concerns and taking action to conserve, recycle and reduce.
Activities included the rehabilitation of mangrove swamp ecosystems through replanting, a roving environmental exhibition housed within a container, the clean-up of coastlines and public areas, in addition to recycling projects at ports and offices around the world. In total, 967 seedlings were planted, and 15.2 tonnes of used items and 12 tonnes of garbage were collected for recycling.
source: GreenPort |
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