Environment The Vikan Green Team - a cross-functional team ensuring progress in the internal sustainability work at Vikan. The Vikan Green Team plays an important and proactive role. The team is in charge of planning ahead, collecting and taking action on CSR-related ideas put forth by Vikan employees, business partners and customers as well as ensuring internal support. We have identified the primary environmental aspects of our activities and are committed to reducing our environmental impact and have since 2008 operated with an environmental management system certified against ISO 14001. Waste optimisation Sorting waste into recyclable materials is a longstanding natural process in Vikan with the purpose of reducing the amount of waste for landfill or incineration. Vikan products are designed to be both functional and durable. Long product lifetimes significantly reduce our need for virgin food-contact plastic and minimize waste in the long term. We monitor our consumption of plastic materials and aim to design new products with less material use. Reducing our CO 2 impact To minimise our environmental footprint, we focus on energy efficiency in production and use electricity from windmills. We optimise on transport solutions and have established a production site in the US to reduce shipments from Europe to the US and evaluate the possibilities to have more distribution/production hubs. Whenever possible, we choose digital tools for customer support and internal meetings within the group to avoid travelling. Materials – recycled or regenerated plastics Recycled or regenerated plastics are used in several Vikan products. However, the materials used to produce our Hy- giene-range of cleaning tools are strictly regulated, as these materials often come into direct or indirect contact with food, and due to regulation currently it is not possible to use recycled plastics for these types of products. Therefore, we follow closely the opportunities and the development for food contact compliant recycled plastic. Further information is available at www.vikan.com/materialfactsheet Green solutions We have a responsible approach to packaging materials and aim to use green solutions. We are involved in networks devoted to green plastic materials for general purposes as well as food-contact materials. This helps us follow market trends and opportunities and seek green-thinking inspiration from others. 4
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