WAITING FOR THE AWARDS | The finalists of the Business / Industry category

Let’s discover the three finalists of the Business / Industry category!

  • Clean Points implemented by Uvesco, in Irún

Within its commitment to the preservation and care of the environment, Uvesco has carried out a project focused on the creation of clean points in several shops for the customers to bring their waste, guaranteeing its recycling. These clean points are designed for waste streams, on which doubts about how recycle it exist (coffee capsules, cartridges, batteries, and oil). In this way, the public is provided with a nearby point where to deposit this waste, avoiding the need to go specifically to the municipal clean points. This project not only encourages and facilitates recycling but will also be an example of reuse. The containers that will be used to collect the waste will be made from leftover coffee capsules (More than 15.000 coffee capsules were used to manufacture each point.). As the project is extended to more shops, these containers will be built with the coffee capsules collected at the first points, in a clear example of circular economy. In addition, the cartridges will go to a company that reuses them, refilling them with ink for later sale.

  • Green Commitment “compromís verd” implemented by MútuaTerrassa, in Terrassa

MútuaTerrassa reaches about 250,000 users of both the public network and mutual society members, in addition to the socio-medical field. The idea is to explain, on the part of those who “watch over me”, that everything that has to do with the environment will have a direct impact on “my specific health”. In line with this purpose, three actions are designed:
– A challenge. A paperless day at the institution’s offices. They planned a day without printing any documents or making any photocopies at the Corporate Services and Insurance offices.
– The action. Removal of plastic from the work dining room. They are resuming the initiative to remove plastic bottles from the work canteen and activate osmotic water sources.
– Press conference. A consolidated product. They held a press conference to highlight reusable textile material as a launching pad for the circular economy.

Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31yv0VxIhuE&feature=youtu.be

  • Today’s dinner could be tomorrow’s lunch implemented by Parque Nascente, in Gondomar

Every day in the food court of their shopping centres they come across a recurring situation: trays with dishes that have an amount of food that could be used for a new meal. Food that ended up, due to lack of options at the time for the customer, being totally wasted, and it is in this context that this project to Fight Food Waste arose. Since July 2021, with the availability of take-away boxes in their food courts, more than 14,000 meals have already been saved and the customers’ satisfaction is evident when they realize that the shopping centre allows to take the leftovers for free. During the EWWR more than 275,529 visitors entered the Parque Nascente and had access to the existing communication in the space, approximately 650 boxes were used during this week. This project was complemented by other initiatives that have the motto to reinforce in their community that the fight against food waste is within everyone’s reach: waste recipe suggestion – in partnership with an influencer, creating a recipe for Christmas cookies, which had more than 4,200 views; etc.

The jury member of this category is Lina Konstantinopoulou, Policy Director at Eurochambres