The CEO of the HSBC’s Sri Lanka branch said that they planned to extend an environmentally-friendly certification obtained for one local office to the Head Office and all other branches.
Nick Nicolaou was speaking on the occasion of receiving the ISO 14001:2004 Certification for Stringent Environment Management System (EMS) for their Premier Centre, last week.This certification makes HSBC the first financial organization in the country to be accredited with this standard, setting the stage for better use of energy and resources to help the Bank sustain its environment policy.
He said that they are involved in a number of corporate sustainability and responsibility projects such as providing education. The HSBC Premier Centre was able to achieve this environmental feat as one of its customers – Prof Ajith de Alwis, who himself is an environmentalist, had promoted the idea and helped the Centre in achieving this certification.
The Centre reduces the use of paper, water and electricity by five %, recycles all its print and photocopy cartridges, converts all synthetic detergents to environment friendly natural detergents and maintains a temperature at 26C to reduce the electricity wastage from air conditioners.
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